3 SUPERVISORS UNOPPOSED FOR RE-ELECTION.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Supervisors Michael Antonovich, Don Knabe Donald R. Knabe (born October 15, 1943 in Illinois) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, serving the Fourth District, a crescent shaped district that covers the coastline from Marina Del Rey southward to Long Beach, and southeastern Los Angeles County to and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke have filed papers to run for re-election in the March 2000 election, and they will face no opposition. Officials said Monday it is the first time since at least 1980 that three supervisors have run unopposed in a single election. ``I know individual members have ran unopposed, but not all three,'' Knabe said. ``For myself, I'm a first-term supervisor running unopposed. I'm told I'm breaking ground here.'' Marcia Ventura, a spokeswoman for the office of Register-Recorder/County Clerk, said she was unsure if this was the first time in county history when three supervisors are unopposed. Alan Heslop Alan Heslop is an American academic and government consultant and . He was born in 1938 in England and gained BA and MA degrees from Magdalen College, Oxford. He later became a naturalized American citizen, and gained his PhD from the University of Texas. , professor of government at Claremont McKenna College A member of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont McKenna College is a small, highly selective, private coeducational, liberal arts college enrolling about 1100 students with a curricular emphasis on government, economics, and public policy. , said the situation is unfortunate and symbolic of the lack of competition for ``some of the most important government offices in local government.'' Heslop said each supervisor represents nearly 2 million people and is able to raise large sums of money to beat any potential challengers. ``They are veritable political behemoths that challengers would have to have bottomless bot·tom·less adj. 1. Having no bottom. 2. Too deep to be measured: a bottomless glacier lake. 3. pockets to mount the sort of expensive campaigns needed to take out an incumbent,'' he said. The situation means the supervisors are ``virtually tenured ten·ured adj. Having tenure: tenured civil servants; tenured faculty. Adj. 1. tenured in their seats'' and do not necessarily reflect changing views or demographics of their constituents. Knabe attributed the situation to the county's good economy and a smooth relationship among board members. ``The board has put partisan politics aside and tried to fix problems,'' he said. |
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