How the Heck Do You Get Angelenos Into the Streets (and Maybe Even to the Polls)?
L.A. Is a Famously Disengaged City. Here's How We Can Do Better.
Low voter turnout has become as much a part of Los Angeles as the Dodgers and sunshine. Eric Garcetti was elected mayor this year with the votes of only 222,300 Angelenos, less than 6 percent of his city’s total population; the last time a mayor was elected with such few votes was in the 1930s, when L.A. was half the size it is today. Now, Garcetti and City Council President Herb Wesson have proposed convening a commission to study the problem. In advance of the Zócalo/UCLA event “Why Won’t Angelenos …
