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Menlo Park council acts to move away from at-large elections

Original post made on Oct 5, 2017

In response to a lawsuit threat alleging that Menlo Park's voting system does not give fair council representation to Latino and black voters in the city's Belle Haven neighborhood, Menlo Park's City Council took unanimous action Wednesday night (Oct. 4) to pass a resolution declaring its intent to change election systems.

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Posted by Wondering
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Oct 5, 2017 at 12:37 pm

Are there term limits for City Council in Menlo Park?

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Posted by Enuff
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Oct 5, 2017 at 1:38 pm

It seems no one remembers what Martin Luther King Jr. fought for: a color-blind society. All the focus on race is tearing our country apart.
As for Menlo Park, we are all residents of this city and should vote as such, in the same kind of at-large elections we've always had.

Our current City Council has rolled over before at the sound of the word "lawsuit." They don't stand up for the residents who voted for them. Instead, they do whatever Stanford wants and whatever Facebook wants, and whatever any angry group threatening to sue them wants. I guess the City Attorney likes to stay out of court.
I can't imagine any City Council doing any worse by its residents.

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