City Councilmen Tony Cardenas and Jose Huizar will lose their bids for reelection in the March 2011 election. You read it here first.
They will lose because: a) they and the rest of the Spring Street Gang have done such a terrible job of running the City that the local media and even voters have started paying attention; and b) they were elected by almost trivial margins.
The following table, explained below, illustrates how little it will take to knock them out of office:
The table shows how many -- or rather, how few -- people voted the last time Cardenas and Huizar were up for election.
As you can see, only 4,803 people voted for Cardenas. That's nothing, especially in a City of 4 million people, divided into 15 districts. Cardenas, moreover, won by the narrowest of margins: he exceeded the bare minimum needed to win by a paltry 1,178 votes.
And if you've had the pleasure of his company for even two minutes -- say, while making public comment -- you've got to believe that the more people know him, the less they can tolerate him. He is therefore, "history," and not in a good way. He needs to start putting out feelers right now for some other government job, because he's not keeping this one, and he would last maybe a day and a half in the private sector.
As for Huizar, he, too, will lose if anyone with a pulse runs against him. Only 8,785 people bothered to vote for him, which gave him a margin of just 2,086.
This is good news for the progressives, moderates, conservatives and libertarian who have united as LA Clean Sweep to field a slate of candidates for the March 2011 election.
More importantly, it's good news for the people of the City of Los Angeles.
We can only hope that constituents and voters are paying attention, and we don't have another case of "the city council suckes," but my councilman is a "good guy."
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The eligible voting public is advised to question candidates motives for seeking re-election, verify desirable qualifications, and review past performance before voting.
Man, you said it, Sandscripts.
ReplyDeleteI ran into a guy the other day who didn't care that Zine is just like all the others. Why? Because Zine helped fight someone who wanted to build something in his neighborhood. Brilliant.
Does it not occur to people that a candidate who is good for the entire city will also be good for their neighborhood?
Walter - the attitude displayed by the citizen who was satisfied with Zine's performance is exactly the reason that Los Angeles needs to be broken up into 15 different cities. When the Council votes unanimously 99+% of the time, there is no "fight" - it is all pre-agreed-upon giveaway. Nobody ever says NO to CRDA, "gang programs", book fairs in Mexico, out-of-work musicians, illegals activists, basketball tickets, City property gifts to developers, etc.
ReplyDeleteIf one lives in Northridge or San Pedro, it is simply too far away to be able to go all the way to downtown LA to become involved in the affairs of the City, and the line of citizens wanting to speak at Council meetings is way too long (and none of the Council is listening anyway since the decisions have already been made before the meeting started)...
As long as the unions and others control the election funding, the rest of us citizens get stuck with the dreck they throw at us. The goons at Barbara Boxer's little party the other day kept saying more more more - and she promised them more jobs - where she plans to get them is obvious - more government bailout. Government bailout simply means taking money out of my left pocket, siphoning off half of it, and putting the rest in to my right pocket. Pretty soon there will be nothing left in my left pocket to take. Pretty soon the City of LA will have no more assets to give away... maybe then the developers will move on to pillage some other community, we can only hope.
LA is too big
Walter, change the date from March 2001 to March 2011 in the first sentence of this post. No biggie - but you know how some of these people can be.
ReplyDeleteIt is like the person who said that Michael LoGrande is great cause he helped him with his house permits. More shocking are the idiots in the Valley alliance where Jill Barard found him so impressive. With a dumb citizinery like this, who seem to have enough time to waste showing up at City Hall to complain about issues in their 2 minutes, but are rarely there to eliminate the root cause of the problems.
ReplyDeleteAll the more reason, that it is quite credible that people like you and Ron Kaye continue to spend your free time in fighting causes, which should infuriate the whole populace than just a few.
1:07 -- Thanks for the proof-reading! I appreciate it. Fixed.
ReplyDeletePlease folks, the future is at at stake here, what goes around comes around. There must be thousands of you who qualify to sit on the city council, if Bell can do it, it can be done. Thanks to Walter and his tireless prodding.
ReplyDeleteWell, I've got some good news for you, Barbara: one of my supporters, David Barron, has already "stepped up to the plate!"
ReplyDeleteHe's running against Cardenas right now! Go, David, go! His website is: http://barron4cc.com/site/