Use to be one could buy a pair of shoes in an area he was visiting and that qualified him with a receipt to vote in the election of the area being visited. It was dubbed the “Starbucks Stakeholder.” Just show a receipt and you were vested.
Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to change that Cavalier approach to Democracy. Now one must either work, live, own property or show membership in a community organization within the neighborhood council boundaries.
According to LA Times, Councilman Jose Huizar said “We are putting an end to the Starbucks stakeholder.”
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