It also would be helpful to me if we could have a longer conversation, including the Councilmember, about his redistricting priorities.īut, as the whole world knows, Nithya Raman quite handily kicked David Ryu’s metaphorical ass at the November election which, among other things, unhatched Woo’s already-counted Commission-involved chickens. At some point I need to discuss with you how we should deal with the likely restrictions on ex parte communications. But most interesting was Woo’s postscript: On SeptemWoo emailed Ryu’s also-now-former Chief of Staff Nick Greif with a draft statement for some required form. Last September unlamentedly former CD4 repster David Ryu appointed former CD13 rep Mike Woo to the Commission. However, some emails I recently obtained show that even this regulation is easily evaded. The one rule that might prevent absolute coordination between the commissioners and the electeds who appointed them is the ban on ex parte communications.
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It’s at least plausible that if the commissioners carried out their work via an adversarial process the result wouldn’t be precisely tailored to the idiosyncratic interests of the electeds who appointed them, but in practice, as you can imagine, this doesn’t happen.Įveryone involved, from commissioners to electeds, has an overriding interest in helping their colleagues attain their individual goals so that they’ll get the same consideration in return. Presumably the commissioners are expected to be somewhat fair and independent, or at least to appear so, 1 but as you can imagine the process is deeply corrupt. Redistricting in the City of Los Angeles is handled by a commission whose members are appointed by municipal elected officials.