EDITORIAL POLITICAL MUSICAL CHAIRS ALARCON'S CONTEMPT FOR VOTERS ILLUSTRATES LARGER PROBLEMS.RICHARD Alarcon could be the poster boy for what's wrong with 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. politics. The popular east San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. politician just left the Senate and won a seat in the State Assembly representing the 39th district (Sun Valley to Sylmar). But even before he takes office this month, his eyes are already on his next job. In fact, if he has his way, he won't have to spend more than a few months in the backwater of the Assembly before he can make it back to the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. in March to fill Alex
Padilla's unexpired term. Then, he can run for a full term as well
while Padilla takes Alarcon's Senate seat.
That's all well and good for Alarcon. But does it really serve the people to have this kind of political musical chairs that freezes out new faces and fresh energy? To be sure, Alarcon's no better or worse a politician than anyone currently serving on the City Council, which doesn't say much about any of them. But his naked ploy ploy n. An action calculated to frustrate an opponent or gain an advantage indirectly or deviously; a maneuver: "A typical ploy is to feign illness, procure medicine, then sell it on the black market" does serve a useful purpose: It reveals his true priority is his own self-interest and exposes just how cynical our political leaders at all levels have become. And that is the heart of the problem. No matter what they tell voters, the politicians merely want the best (and the best-paid) job they can get, and hold on to it as long as possible by any means necessary By any means necessary is a translation of a phrase coined by the French intellectual Jean Paul Sartre in his play Dirty Hands. I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. . And thanks to Measure R, the opportunities for snubbing Snubbing is a type of heavy well intervention performed on oil and gas wells. It involves running the BHA on a pipe string using a hydraulic workover rig. Unlike wireline or coiled tubing, the pipe is not spooled off a drum but made up and broken up while running in and pulling the public in new and interesting ways have increased. There are concrete reasons that the public is growing cynical and weary about the American political system. And this is just one of them. |
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