In the United States, no elected officials on a law-making body (except for the U.S. Senate) have as many constituents as Los Angeles County Supervisors. Each of the five supervisors has approximately two million constituents. Dan Walters, politics and government columnist for the Sacramento Bee has this column, arguing that the county should have a larger legislative body. All county and city elections in California are non-partisan. California is the only state with a constitutional provision requiring that all local government elections be non-partisan; most states let each jurisdiction decide for itself whether to have partisan or non-partisan elections.
More or less control freak STATISM —
a TOTALLY PARTISAN subject for thousands of years of recorded history.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Funny how people in the US always accept the existing governmental structure whatever it is.I think it’s because there’s a remarkable elite consensus (on both “left” and “right”) about not rocking the boat. Though every once in a while someone will come forward(see Pat Quinn of IL)and convince the electorate to REDUCE the size of a legislature to save money and eliminate some of those useless pols they all despise in the abstract.