It‘s important to realize that the impossible diversity of L.A.’s 2nd Council District came about 15 years ago as a move aimed at dumping Joel Wachs. The suave, cosmopolitan Wachs was seldom popular with his council colleagues. And never less so than in 1986, when the death of Councilman Howard Finn during a planning hearing gave the senior council members a ghoulish opportunity to create a new Latino-majority council district near downtown.And, while they were at it, to try to rearrange Wachs‘ district so he could never be re-elected. The idea was to reduce Wachs’ middle-class southeast Valley constituencies and hand him two new segments: impecunious, Latino Arleta and the Anglo-majority horsy and Harleyish semirural areas of Sunland-Tujunga. Wachs responded by showing up at Sunland hoedowns in jeans and brand-new single-stitch Tony Lamas and playing the dancing fool.