Good morning, it’s Tuesday, October 27, and you can expect another heartbreakingly nice day here in the great city of Los Angeles (high 70s with enough scattered clouds to keep the sunshine from feeling oppressive).
What you need to know about the L.A. charter reform measures on the ballot.
A page from the L.A. City Voter Pamphlet.
Indulge me for a moment while I revisit the not-so-distant past. Let’s rewind to almost exactly four years ago, when the city was still reeling from a nearly 80-minute, surreptitiously recorded conversation that featured some of the most powerful people in Los Angeles making racist comments and scheming to consolidate their political power.
In the aftermath of the leaked tape scandal, L.A. local government was briefly at the white-hot center of national discourse and ordinary Angelenos were suddenly fixated on City Hall.
There was a palpable buzz around the decidedly unsexy topic of government reform. The environment seemed ripe for major change, and elected and civic leaders began talking about what it might look like to substantially change the City Charter — the detailed document that governs how L.A. is run, which can only be changed by public vote.
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