Opinion: In Thursday’s Letters to the editor
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In Thursday’s Letters to the editor, the election conversation continues. Vince Buck, a professor emeritus at Cal State Fullerton, offers another reason opponents might dislike Proposition 11, the redisricting initiative discussed in this George Skelton column and in this news story:
A more important reason for voting against this poorly-structured proposition is that the cure is worse than the disease. ...The process simply will not work, and apportionment will end up with the courts as it did in 1991. Why not just start there and save the state a lot of time and money?
Readers also take issue with Joel Stein’s column suggesting that undecided Americans shouldn’t vote. Writes Jack Yaghoubian, of Toluca Lake:
Stein brands the 80 undecided voters seated at last week’s town hall-style debate ‘idiots.’ ...He pontificates, ‘A high voter turnout doesn’t make our democracy work better.’ In light of the fact that the bedrock of any democracy is the participation of its citizens in the affairs of the country, Stein’s statement is what is idiotic.
Tortoises for dinner, former L.A. city commissioner Leland Wong is sentenced, and a suicide net for Golden Gate Bridge, too.
*Voter photo by Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times.