Los Angeles' new district lines — meant to last a decade — could be erased and redrawn after a single election cycle after City Council members were caught on tape discussing how to shape new boundaries in their interests.
People hold signs and shout slogans before the start of the Los Angeles City Council meeting on Oct. 11, 2022 in Los Angeles. | Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP PhotoThe leaked recording that upended Los Angeles politics this week could remap power in America’s second-largest city — in every sense of the word.
“Change is coming, whether to the existing lines or to the broader composition of representation in the city,” said Robb Korinke, a southern California consultant who runs Los Angeles campaigns. “I think this is a sea-change event.”or billionaire developer Rick Caruso, will have to forge alliances as the terrain shifts if they hope to get anything done in a city reeling from the animosity exposed by the tapes.
That has spurred loud calls to vet and overhaul the process. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced this week his office would investigate how Los Angeles crafted lines to “restore confidence in the redistricting process for the people of L.A.” What that could mean he didn’t specify. “There were efforts to suppress some populations, suppress the representation of some populations at the expense of others,” Council Member Curren Price said in an interview. “So, that whole process I think is going to be looked at in a different way.”
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