LOS ANGELES – Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters says that though 60 percent of Los Angeles County’s residents are Latino, only one of the its county’s five supervisors is Latino – Gloria Molina, who was elected to the board 22 years ago due to the U.S. Justice Department’s intervention in redistricting. Walters said that after the 2010 census confirmed Latinos as a “strong majority of the county’s residents, Molina and the board’s only black member, Mark Ridley-Thomas, pressed their colleagues to create another Latino seat.” However, since the 1991 intervention from a Republican administration, the Obama administration has been “less willing to challenge Los Angeles County” on redistricting plans and voting laws based on the Voting Rights Act. “A more comprehensive – and rational – solution to the dilemma would be to increase the board to nine or more members, thereby making it more representative of the county’s immense ethnic, cultural and economic diversity,” Walters wrote in Monday’s column. Read more of the Sacramento Bee column at www.sacbee.com.