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Are the Northeast LA Neighborhood Council Elections a Farce?
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NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS-The last few years have been difficult for the Office of the City Attorney (OCA) headed by Mike Feuer, as evidenced by a series of embarrassing and ethically challenged developments that also, directly or indirectly, have a potentially serious impact on the City’s budget.
In 2015, after a new billing system implemented by the Department of Water and Power (DWP) resulted in overcharges to many DWP customers, DWP customers filed a class action lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles arising out of the problems with the billing system. The lead plaintiff in this lawsuit was Antwon Jones, a Van Nuys resident. In July 2017, the City reached a $67 million settlement of that case.
Squeeze Play on Community Groups in Los Angeles Details
PLANNING WATCH-Los Angeles is a city of neighborhoods, and the Los Angeles Times has mapped 114 separate communities.
Historically, they have self-organized into block clubs, neighborhood organizations, homeowner associations, and tenant unions. For City Hall these grassroots groups have been a nuisance, and officials have resorted to four tactics to weaken them:
Tactic 1 -
Cooptation: Mayor Tom Bradley (1973-1993) appointed community group representatives to official City bodies, such as the City Planning Commission. By the 1990s the benign co-optation of the Tom Bradley era gave way to escalating tactics to reduce the influence of more assertive community groups.
GELFAND’S WORLD Major League Baseball just announced that it is moving this year s All Star game away from Atlanta, Georgia due to the new law that changes election rules.
Voting rights groups all over the country have been up in arms about the issue and support the MLB action. The item in the law that has been inspiring the most headlines is the one that forbids outsiders from providing food or water to the voters who get stuck in long voting lines. (Technically it is a general prohibition on gifts to voters waiting in line.)
This part of the law is either a rare mistake putting in something so egregious as to incite anger and contempt all over the country or it is a declaration of a new Jim Crow, once again loud and blatant and taunting to all people of good will. If it is the latter, which I suspect is the intent on the part of at least some Georgia legislators, it is something that cannot be left unchallenged. This country may have a lot of
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