As a wave of sexual misconduct allegations continues to hit Hollywood, politics and beyond, an overlapping area of Los Angeles County has been left without political representation in Sacramento as a result of two legislators being accused of improper conduct.
Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) and state Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia) have both gone on leave after improper conduct allegations, according to the L.A. Times, leaving huge swaths of Southeast L.A. County without a legislator repping them in the state Capitol.
UPDATE, 12:25 pm: Mendoza resigned abruptly on Wednesday. See more here.
The L.A. Times wrote: “The overlap between the Mendoza and Garcia districts is significant. More than 94 percent of Garcia’s district lies within Mendoza’s state Senate boundaries, including the cities of Downey, Cerritos and Pico Rivera. That leaves roughly 440,000 people without representation.”