[EL] Los Angeles City redistricting

[David Ely]

The conversation she mentions took place in 2007. There was no redistricting
commission (or redistricting process) active at that time. Gruel was not on
the council for the recent redistricting, but she did have appointees on the
commission as City Controller. She only joined the council in 2002 when that
redistricting process was near completion. In other words she was never on
the Council through a redistricting process.

 

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[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Douglas
Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 11:54 AM
To: 'Rick Hasen'; law-election at UCI.EDU
Subject: Re: [EL] Los Angeles City redistricting

 

Just an important reminder that redistricting "commissions" are not equal:
the City of Los Angeles has a redistricting commission, but it is not (nor
was it ever intended to be to any practical degree) an independent
redistricting commission. Note how former Councilmember Gruel talks about
how the Councilmembers openly made deals which each other, which (left
unsaid in the article) were then passed on to their commission appointees
for adoption.

 

-          Doug

 

Douglas Johnson, Fellow

Rose Institute of State and Local Government

at Claremont McKenna College 

douglas.johnson at cmc.edu

310-200-2058 

 

 

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Rick
Hasen
Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:36 AM
To: law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/9/14


 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63105> "Greuel testifies Alarcon asked her
to move council district boundary" 


Posted on July 8, 2014 7:39 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63105>  by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

The LA Times reports.
<http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-greuel-alarcon-testimony-201407
08-story.html> 

 
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