The following is for my readers who are registered to vote in Los Angeles County. The rest of you can safely skip it unless you’re interested. Since I do have many L.A. readers, many have asked me for my thoughts about who should be the next District Attorney of Los Angeles. I have a firm recommendation:
I haven't lived in LA county for just over twenty years, but from my perch just across the Orange Curtain I still follow events there**. So I fall under the "interested parties". Mostly I want to thank you for this as a piece of analysis.
I'm pleased to know that you have so many readers in LA County that they might be able to influence the primary, which I agree is likely to be relatively low turnout, although the 2012 DA primary had just over 800k votes cast.
Given that LA DA is a California Rules Top Two* (should be called Washington Rules - they had the system before we did) with Gascon next to guaranteed one of the slots, *if I* were voting in that race I would be seriously struggling with the need to vote strategically - strongest candidate not named Gascon, which would probably be Siddall from what I know now. But these things are extremely unstable.
* My kingdom for a Condorcet voting system, or at least RCV-IRV, which while flawed beats what we have now.
** my daughter had made the first two cuts of interviews to be hired into the LA DA's office in the dreadful summer of 2020; never got to the third round since Lacey was basically stalling new hires starting about August, probably correctly in view of her disappointing but unsurprising loss to the execrable Gascon.
Hi Patrick -
I haven't lived in LA county for just over twenty years, but from my perch just across the Orange Curtain I still follow events there**. So I fall under the "interested parties". Mostly I want to thank you for this as a piece of analysis.
I'm pleased to know that you have so many readers in LA County that they might be able to influence the primary, which I agree is likely to be relatively low turnout, although the 2012 DA primary had just over 800k votes cast.
Given that LA DA is a California Rules Top Two* (should be called Washington Rules - they had the system before we did) with Gascon next to guaranteed one of the slots, *if I* were voting in that race I would be seriously struggling with the need to vote strategically - strongest candidate not named Gascon, which would probably be Siddall from what I know now. But these things are extremely unstable.
* My kingdom for a Condorcet voting system, or at least RCV-IRV, which while flawed beats what we have now.
** my daughter had made the first two cuts of interviews to be hired into the LA DA's office in the dreadful summer of 2020; never got to the third round since Lacey was basically stalling new hires starting about August, probably correctly in view of her disappointing but unsurprising loss to the execrable Gascon.
Engineers want to work for engineers. I guess it's not remarkable that barristers want to work for barristers.