YAROSLAVSKY WOULD LOSE HIS CONSTITUENTS UNDER PROPOSAL.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer A veteran of battles over political redistricting redistricting: see legislative apportionment. , Alan Clayton has unveiled a politically explosive proposal for Los Angeles County supervisors' districts as he pursues his legal challenge against the boundaries the Board of Supervisors adopted in 2001. His plan would split the 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. and erase longtime incumbent Zev Yaroslavsky's district, forcing him to run against incumbent Don Knabe on Knabe's home turf. The new map creates a new San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. seat in which Yaroslavsky, who lives in West Los Angeles
A court could make the final decision on the remapping. Clayton, director of equal opportunity employment for the 1,100-member Los Angeles County Chicano Employees Association, said the new map could ultimately give voters a chance to elect two Latinos to the five-member board. It could also further shift the balance of power on the board from the current makeup - three Democrats and two Republicans - to three Democrats, one Republican and a swing seat that could go to either a Republican or a Democrat in a district along the coast, West Los Angeles and the west San Fernando Valley. On Feb. 23, Clayton filed a 76-page administrative complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice Voting Rights Voting rights The right to vote on matters that are put to a vote of security holders. For example the right to vote for directors. voting rights The type of voting and the amount of control held by the owners of a class of stock. Section, alleging the Board of Supervisors violated the federal Voting Rights Act Voting Rights Act Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1965 to ensure the voting rights of African Americans. Though the Constitution's 15th Amendment (passed 1870) had guaranteed the right to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” in the district lines they drew last year, which generally left the boundaries as they have been for a decade. ``What we are claiming is they basically drew a district that packed Latinos into one district when there are basically two Latino communities that could have had their own separate, reasonably compact districts in different regions of Los Angeles County,'' Clayton said. Clayton filed a 218-page complaint with the Justice Department in January 2002, after officials OK'd the Board of Supervisors-approved redistricting map. Yaroslavsky was traveling Friday and could not be reached for comment. Knabe declined to comment. The new map shifts Knabe's District 4 out of the San Gabriel Valley and it picks up the entire coast plus West Los Angeles and the west San Fernando Valley. It would include Knabe's home in Cerritos. Other supervisors - Michael Antonovich in District 5, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke in District 2 and Gloria Molina in District 1 - would see less change. Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. F. Estrada, an associate professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , wrote in an attachment that Clayton's plan is a well-crafted map. ``The plan gives a very high priority to preserving cities, avoids packing minorities into a single district and keeps major geographic regions together,'' Estrada wrote. CAPTION(S): map Map: PROPOSED LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
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