By: Louis Sahagún | LA TImes
Cynthia Ruiz, the first Native American ever to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners, got some bad news from City Hall recently.
Ruiz said a deputy mayor called her on May 26 to say she was being removed after serving just one year on the panel that oversees the Department of Water and Power.
“It’s not about you,” Ruiz said she was told. “If you want to go on to a different commission, let me know and I can make it happen.”
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Of course, because once minorities get a taste of power they turn into the very politicians they swore were oppressing their own. The bullied becomes the bully. I guess it’s true only the squeakiest wheels get the oil. And none more squeakier.