Word: schabarum
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...everybody was unhappy with the cuts. Their most gratified supporter was the author of Proposition 140, Pete Schabarum, 62, a crusty member of the Los Angeles county board of supervisors and former state assemblyman who is now campaigning to extend the term-limit stricture to the state's Senators and 45 Congressmen and to elected bodies in all 58 counties...
...boundaries. They refuse to consider expanding the board to seven members, as their critics have suggested. And they resist the idea of creating a new, predominantly Latino district, which is what the plaintiffs are asking U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon to do. Such a plan, says Supervisor Peter Schabarum, would be "fundamentally un-American" and "racist." He adds, "I have real trouble with a Voting Rights Act that says ethnic groups ought to have a district fashioned just so they can have one of theirs representing them...
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