I do not support any of these bogus lawsuits, nor do I support these claims either. Our current Mayor Bill Miranda is also of Hispanic heritage, as is our Assistant City Manager Frank Oviedo, City Attorney Joe Montes, many city employees, school board members and employees, as are our California Assemblywoman Suzette Martínez Valladares and U.S. I am a Los Angeles native and 28-year resident of Canyon Country/Santa Clarita, an American of HISPANIC ancestry, who lives in the most diverse community within Santa Clarita.Īs a community WE do not have a problem of representation. So just to be clear: An Anglo/white non-resident lawyer, and a sour grapes Democrat (candidate) are telling YOU, my ELECTED council members, that they know better than I do what I want and need. Rafferty believes that I/we are incapable of running for office and winning without these created districts, or determining who of whatever race, ethnicity, gender, or economic status is the best PERSON to represent our interest on the City Council. I vehemently disagree with his assertions and am frankly insulted that Mr.
Now we have another out-of-area ambulance chaser again telling us that we MUST adopt an ordinance requiring arbitrarily created district elections using the FALSE premise that Hispanics and Blacks are unable to decide for ourselves who represents us and that only district elections serve our needs. This newest threat was made by Bay Area attorney Scott Rafferty in February 2020, asking the city to comply with the California Voting Rights Act and he (a white guy from the Bay Area!) alleges that “at-large” elections dilute the votes of Latino residents. Santa Clarita resident Jonathan Ahmadi, who is neither Black nor Hispanic but is a Democrat City Council hopeful, formed an independent committee last year to draw council district lines based on data from the 2010 Census. By the way, Dante Acosta, Suzette Martínez Valladares and Mike Garcia were all elected without their “help.” Why? Easy answer, because NONE of us are Democrats as they are, or agreed with their victimization garbage lawsuit brought to simply abuse the law and make a bunch of jerks a nice income from taxpayer dollars. No donations, endorsements, campaign volunteering, NADA. This first came up because of a lawsuit brought by Jim Soliz, Rosemarie Sanchez Frasier, and their attorney Kevin Shenkman, none of whom apparently had any interest in supporting ANY of the three Americans of Hispanic ancestry who were candidates when I ran along with Gloria Mercado-Fortine and Dante Acosta. I do not want to live in ANY of those Los Angeles districts and moved here from Sherman Oaks, one of the nicer areas of the city of Los Angeles! Race, ethnicity, etc., does not determine a good leader nor preclude getting a bad leader, either. City Council and has been indicted by a federal grand jury on bribery and corruption charges. There have been too many indictments of district leaders to mention, including, just recently, Mark Ridley-Thomas, who has been suspended by the L.A. District 14 is in Downtown Los Angeles, represented by Hispanic Jose Huizar, who has been embroiled in multiple pay-to-play bribery schemes and whose district is a virtual cesspool of homeless encampments. District 10 encompasses the Crenshaw District and surrounding areas represented by Herb Wesson Jr., a Black man. City Council District 4 and has an Asian councilman, David Ryu, but the area has been usually represented by Caucasian males. City Council District 6 and has Nury Martínez, a Hispanic councilwoman, as representative, but I sure do not want to live there.
Sun Valley does not receive the same level of services or look anything like Sherman Oaks, yet Sun Valley is in L.A. They have their own individual area City Council representatives and yet there is a vast difference between the services given to certain areas. Just look at the city of Los Angeles if you need examples. Districts are racially, ethnically and economically divisive instead of inclusive of diverse groups and political viewpoints. Individual districts serve to create a base for power brokers who elect their own choice candidates and where those less well funded have little or no chance at succeeding, nor have anyone else to seek redress for their issues. These council districts create divisions instead of a sense of unity within the entire city. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron Bender.
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