[Haddit]

The Lawyers Committee sued the school district in August, complaining that although 82% of its 18,500 students are Latino, only one Latino sits on the seven-member school board, and only one other Latino has served on the board in the last 25 years. Since 1996, Rubin said, Latinos have run for school board eight times, but in all but one case have been defeated by what he called "Anglo bloc voting."

Because many Latinos are not citizens or are too young to vote, only 44% of Madera's eligible voting population is Latino, giving whites a majority. Rubin said his group favors a system of voting districts that would include at least three with Latino majorities.

[calex59]

Oh, yeah, no bias there. The people you want to be elected don’t win so you go to a judge and have them invalidate the vote before people even voted. What a crock. This is just a school board but if it is done at that level it can be carried upstream to other elections!

[Haddit]

Unbelievable, from the school board to the city counsel, to the mayor, to the senators and congressmen, to the governor, to judges, and to the presidential candidates, they are all for OTAs (Other Than Americans).

[JZelle]

We’re a third world country now.

[TightyRighty]

I grew up in Madera. Although I shouldn’t be, I am amazed at how the city officials have run that city into the ground. It looks like a border city. Downtown looks like a Mexican slum - it’s pathetic. This doesn’t surprise me one bit.