The City of Vernon – Its Not Cuba
For the past several months, the City of Vernon has been embroiled in quite an election skirmish. It seems that the city did not want to let 8 people move in and register to vote. So, the thecity clerk decided to remove these 8 interlopers from theroll of registered voters in Vernon. Interestingly, 3 of these new voters had taken out papers to run for city council. Well, yesterday a Superior Court judge ruled that the city got it wrong and that the city clerk could not purge these voters of their right to participate in city elections. Read the LA Times article here.
So at least for now, the City of Vernon has more public participation in democracythat Cuba. Which, I suppose is a good thing, provided that the challengers are actually motivated by altruism as opposed to lining their own pockets (which seems to be the modus operandi of public officials in Vernon).
Things are very interesting in Vernon. Vernon, population 91 (does this even qualify as a city?), has been run by the same group of councilmembers for decades. In fact, the last contested election was… Read More