{"article":{"id":8685,"heading":"Queers, People of Color Clash Over San Diego City Council Redistricting","author":"Mark Gabrish Conlan\/Zenger's Newsmagazine","created":"2001-07-17 21:19:08","modified":"2013-11-10 23:38:24","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:38:24","article":"
\n","contact":"mgconlan@earthlink.net","link":"http:\/\/zengers.tripod.com\/","address":"P.O. Box 50134, San Diego, CA 92165","phone":"(619) 688-1886","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The independent commission redrawing San Diego's City Council districts is considering two maps \u2014 one which keeps the city's Queer vote concentrated in one district, one which splits it in order to create a district that might elect a third person of color to the Council. The controversy highlights differences of interest between Queers and people of color, between working-class and poor people and small business owners, and between minorities that are recognized in federal civil rights law and ones that aren't.","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/07\/queers__pe.txt","filesize":"15.2 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/07\/8685.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":8703,"heading":"OOPS!","article":"When I expanded this story from the original for Zenger's into a longer version for the IMC, I made a major mistake. I identified Juan Vargas as the first Latino elected to the San Diego City Council in modern times and said that no Latino had won a Council seat before the charter change to all-district elections in 1988. Actually, Uvaldo Martinez was appointed to fill a vacancy in the early 1980's and was subsequently elected citywide (against another Latino\/a candidate, Celia Ballesteros, who carried the district but lost citywide). Subsequently Ballesteros served as an interim appointee when Martinez was forced to resign the seat because of a scandal.","author":"Mark Gabrish Conlan","parent_id":8685,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-07-18 18:11:47","modified":"2001-07-18 18:34:01","fileurl":""}]}