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Jordan Brandman has moved to start the districting process over rather than allowing the sole Latino majority district to vote for its chosen representative in the next general election in 2016. Kris Murray seconded the motion and Lucille Kring voiced her support for Brandman’s motion to postpone indefinitely the ordinance that came up for a second reading tonight.
Proponents of the Recommended Map — drafted by Oscar Reyes, promoted by OCCORD and OCCCO, and recommended by a panel of judges — appeared to be stunned, but have become more boisterous during the meeting, which continues to be ongoing as of 9:00 p.m.
UPDATE:
Thanks to a lumbering and be-tusked sea creature, the following prepared statement read by Jordan Brandman has splatted across our transom:
Thank you all really truly for coming tonight. As many of you know, I endorsed the ballot initiative to create districts, signed the ballot argument in support, and actively campaigned for its passage. I have fought for an Anaheim City Council that reflects the diversity of our community, and I will continue to do so.
Throughout this process, we have all worked tirelessly to accomplish those goals, and we have taken pride in the thoroughness and transparency of these proceedings. Since the first public hearing, all of us have had the best of intentions to implement this new system of governance using the map that has been recommended by the districting committee. And we concluded that portion with unanimity. However, during the second hearing that unanimity broke down as this body tried to develop a sequencing plan for which districts would be up in the 2016 cycle.
In the time since, it has become clear to me that it is not the sequencing of the districts but the map itself at issue. While everyone has worked in good faith to see a map approved that guarantees representational equity, the proposed map is the epitome of the perfect being the enemy of the good. It forces this council to choose between ensuring that historically underrepresented communities have the opportunity to vote for their candidate of choice in 2016 and geographic equity.
Furthermore, upon further review and conversations with several community leaders, I believe not having a map with two Latino majority CVAP districts on the ballot in 2016 could expose the City to further lawsuits, as the recent letter from MALDEF contends. Therefore, since this map has led us to an impasse, I move we postpone indefinitely the consideration of the proposed ordinance before us. Instead, I propose that we direct to staff to set up hearings beginning in January 2016 for further consideration of maps that were already submitted to the Advisory Committee on Electoral Districts where the map included 2 or more Latino majority CVAP districts. I believe there is a sufficient number of alternatives in the maps that have already been submitted.
Based on the statistics available to us, I believe that demographer consultant map 2 may be the best alternative, with Council Districts 1, 2, 3, and 5 up for election in 2016. That arrangement would provide for two Latino majority CVAP districts in central and east Anaheim, and two west and south Anaheim districts on the November 2016 ballot.
That said, if the council would like to explore other alternatives, I look forward to that discussion and any thoughts staff has. Nevertheless, I think it is clear at this juncture that the map and election sequencing as proposed in the ordinance before us is not in the best interests of the City of Anaheim, and I hope we can find an alternative that accomplishes the aims we established at the very beginning of this process. Thank you.
All highlighting added by me; the color coding will be explained when this is discussed in the soon-to-appear item on last night’s meeting. To Mr. Brandman and to the author(s) of his statement, thank you for making it available through your preferred PR outlet. To Chumley, we humbly offer our “goo-goo-ga-joob.”
Well, there’s a five million dollar mistake and a probable Brown Act violation.
Wow! That’s all i can say. Wow.
I wonder how the Kleptos can possibly put a happy face on this stinking pile.
What’s the point, other than redrawing a Latino majority district with Moreno out of it? That means Cunningham’s bosses are going to have to pull their race-colored glasses on real tight.
Anyway, it’s hard to see a court not cutting through the bullshit real quick.
Unfortunately it takes a shitload of public money to GET to a court to cut through the bullshit. Delay, delay, delay. All at $400 an hour out the door to your buddies.
Jordan’s logic reminds me of Animal farm; “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others;” Of course you have to hear it in the voice of the Irvine Troll playing the role of the “propaganda pig”
Squealer – the pig who spreads Napoleon’s propaganda among the other animals. Squealer justifies the pigs’ monopolization of resources and spreads false statistics pointing to the farm’s success. Orwell uses Squealer to explore the ways in which those in power often use rhetoric and language to twist the truth and gain and maintain social and political control.
here is a list of characters you may find useful in labeling the players in this drama.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/characters.html
Cunningham the Squealer. Lovely visualization.
Actually, i was thinking about the Irvine Troll for that role, but they can both be each others understudies. God knows it has to physically draining to craft such bullshit.
“God knows it has to physically draining to craft such bullshit.”
To you or me, yes. Wordsmith Cunningham’s been doing it now for at least eight years so it probably come real easy. I won’t link to his latest pile of manure. Suffice to say that it has nothing to do with reality.
Of course not.
Creating one Latino district is racist.
Creating two? Yeah, that’s cool. He’s down with that.
He frames it as the courageous council majority not knuckling under to radical left wingers.
Poor schlub is reverting to his Young Republican days. Who knew the final battle of the Cold War would be fought in Anaheim with young Galahad Brandman carrying the banner of capitalism?
I have no idea hat the purpose of scribbling such nonsensical tripe could possibly be. Is it just to help keep up the morale of the Kleptocracy?
$$$$$
He just can’t admit losing. Just an attempt to redefine the issue into something he can win.
This is about THE LEFT.
Clearly, it’s not. Jordan Brand-name is the left. This is about Jordan Brand-name.
Or possibly Disney hating brown people.
Maybe.
I don’t think Disney hates anyone because of their melanin. I think that they hate them because of their thirst for justice.
$$$$$
Yeas, of course. But is willing to pay for something so foolish and irrelevant – unless there were some morale to boost?
Smells like team spirit.
Smells like drain of team locker room shower.
“He just can’t admit losing. Just an attempt to redefine the issue into something he can win.”
In one short post he throws out:
left-wing
liberal/leftist
fellow travelers
lefties
Alinsky-ite
left-wing cadre
mob tactics
left-wing constituencies
leftist academic
Geez, I wonder if he thinks we forgot about the hundreds of thousands of bucks he pulled down at $200 an hour shilling for Rob Reiner’s “it takes a village” First Five socialism and writing op-ed pieces for “lefties” like Delaine Eastin. The lack of self-awareness is something to behold. Must be why he and Chimp get along so well.
He’s always able to rationalize his paychecks with his world view. I’m sure it helps him sleep at night.
Most recently, NIMBYs are baaaaad.
Unless they’re opposing dirty, smelly, vagrants. Then they’re good and can pay me!
So, am I surprised that he says raced based politics are baaaaad, then claims Kris Murray doubling down on race this Tuesday is good?
Nope. Not one little bit.
Graphic has been slightly adjusted to distinguish it from the one in the previous story.
In this week WOT I posted a comment about a soccer player from Anaheim, Villafaña.
He has been sold to a major Mexican team, Santos Laguna. In addition to being from Anaheim, he played for the Chivas USA , and guess who did not like this team….the klepto PR ‘s baseball expert, who is now providing a ” public service” by reprinting Brandman’s statement trying to justify the exclusion of district 3. There is an undercurrent theme among the PRs (hello teddy bear) and their clients about brown people.
This seems like a good place to put the draft version of Brandman’s speech from last night, so this item is not updated. It also has color-coded highlighting, the meaning of which will be explained in a subsequent post.
“Therefore, since this map has led us to an impasse,”
Whaaa?
There was no impasse. There was big political dilemma that he created – for himself by being a bought and paid for stooge.
And then somebody in Kleptoville decided for Brandman to double down on his lackeydom with help from Murray and Kringle.