Los Angeles Voters Are in a Foul Mood. Will a New Mayor Change Anything?
In Los Angeles, in the summertime, voters don’t want to spend their time standing in line. They want to be out in the sunshine and getting their exercise. So they vote in the heat of summer. And then they vote again in the fall, when it’s cooler and they’re back on their regular schedule.
And in most of the United States, the summertime is followed by cooler times. If the summer doesn’t go right for you, in the fall you usually get an itch to vote. You want to vote on the issues that really matter to you.
But not so in Los Angeles, where voters are in a state of collective rage. Or, more formally, in a state of collective voter rage, which is more like a state of collective voter rage.
In Los Angeles, voters are furious that their mayor is the face of the public-private partnership — the Public-Private Partnership in Waste Water Treatment — that was supposed to be the salvation for the city’s water supply. They have every reason to be angry because, as they now know with devastating clarity, the Public-Private Partnership in Waste Water Treatment is a failure.
The city’s drinking water is contaminated by sewage, thanks to the billions of gallons of water that poured into the city’s drains from the Public-Private Partnership in Waste Water Treatment.
Los Angelenos are also outraged that all the money — $811 million — that will be spent on the Public-Private Partnership in Waste Water Treatment was not going to the people who needed the water most.
Instead, the money was going into the pockets of people like Mr. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Mr. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s partners. Garcetti and his company, the City of West Hollywood, were so determined to turn the water crisis around that they hired a public
