A Power Grab By Madam Chair
The Voice of OC is reporting on a plan by County Board of Supervisors Chair Janet Nguyen to create a redistricting committee of which she will be Chair, and Supervisor Bill Campbell, Vice Chair. The remaining three positions will be filled by appointment by the other Supes.
Apparently this little plan was not well-received by the three dissed supervisors – for obvious reasons. Although Brown Act issues have been raised, the real question seems to be how the Empress thought she’d ever get this ticket validated: the Census won’t be complete and published until 2011 when she won’t even be Chair any more; she is also running for re-election in 2012 and the idea of her manipulating this process to shed unwanted Latino votes from her district must have occurred to just about everybody.
Supervisors Shawn Nelson and John Moorlach proposed the redistricting model pursued in 2000 which seems to have been the only one in recent memory that avoided legal challenge, and in which supervisor’s staff members participated with the public in designing new districts.
This issue isn’t over. Next week the County Counsel Nicholas Chrisos will report back on Brown Act implications and the full Board will take up the matter again.
Sorry. I’m back in the 3rd District.
Given enough rope Janet would have hung herself, now thanks to Nelson we will never see how this would have played out, but I can only imagine Janet would have had egg on face and Latinos out of her district.
I agree, she doesn’t seem to think before making moves like this. Janet needs to hire someone who has actually worked in the county for 10 years and ask them what they think of these DUMB moves she makes.
Get rid of the Latinos, because her new opponent will have their votes for sure.
Janet Nguyen needs to go. She is a demanding individual who likes power. I hope she gets her ass kick in the next election. I can’t her and her selfishness.