LA to vote for mayor...

The KC Star offers this in their analysis of the LA mayorial election:

• Manny Hernandez couldn't care less that Los Angeles mayoral frontrunner Antonio Villaraigosa is Latino. Similarly, Edgar Garcia puts ethnicity low on the list of candidates' attributes.

  "There was a time when you voted for your ethnic candidate because they would represent you and the others wouldn't," said Garcia, a UCLA planning student from a working-class barrio. "I think we're past that now."

Did someone forget to tell Jesse Jackson and the NAACP about the fact that we are "past" voting for politicians strictly on the basis of ethnicity? Do they know that people of one race, gender, or ethnicity can represent those of different orientation?