Posted on 09/06/2018 12:16:17 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Gov. Brown needs to to veto this shameless bill. If lawmakers aren't interested in rubbing shoulders with the residents of their district, they have no business representing them
Just as the 2018 legislative session was winding down last week, California lawmakers sent Gov. Jerry Brown a bill that would allow them to live outside the districts in which they were elected and ostensibly represent.
What’s next? Mayors who don’t have to live in the cities in which they were elected? City council members who do not have to live in their council districts?
Former State Senator Rod Wright resigned from the California Senate after he was convicted of eight felonies, including perjury and voter fraud, for living outside the district from which he was elected.
Photos presented to the court demonstrated that he lived in a house in the posh neighborhood of Baldwin Hills, with his Maserati parked in front and closets full of his clothes. This was miles away from the Inglewood neighborhood where he registered to vote.
less than 1% of ALL Public Employees in Los Angeles live in Los Angeles, 50% live in a Different County altogether. It should be Mandatory that All Public Employees live in the District they work for, especially the Police.
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