Let's welcome the new guy

Yesterday, Los Angeles voted in the first Latino mayor since 1872.

This is great, especially since the current mayor is so nonexistent in my LA experience that I only know him from his political scandals and a brief vision of him waving as I starting to run 26.2 miles with approximately 20 billion other idiots back in March.

I must gripe, though, about voter turnout. The mayoral campaign was a bit tiring, and yesterday was simply a runoff vote after the field was narrowed to two candidates a few months ago. Still, the LA Times is reporting appalling numbers of only about 440,000 total votes. Sheesh!