A judge this week removed three of the five city council members in Mission Viejo from their seats.
Mission Viejo agreed to study by-district voting in 2018 but ultimately scrapped the idea, saying there was no way to draw a district that would give the city's Latino population — 18.5% of the total — a better shot at electing a representative of their choice.
Similarly, until recently, the city hadn't planned to put the remaining two council seats on the ballot for the November 2022 election, even though the council members occupying those seats had been elected in 2020 to two-year terms.The city argues that under the agreement approved by Judge Schwarm, the city council terms should have been extended to four years.
Hand also said that the way the city set up remote meetings to comply with COVID-19 safety protocols — for example, requiring residents to submit comments on agenda items in advance via email — made it difficult for residents to participate. They simply decided, we are not going to put ourselves up for election when our terms expire, which is a really, really alarming concept when you think about how government is supposed to work in America."If you were not a confident public speaker and you saw the treatment that we were getting, you wouldn't want to go stand up in public and say something that you thought you were going to be attacked for," Palmer said.
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