Election in San Pedro

There's a small election on Tuesday in the corner of Los Angeles that wraps around the port -- covering San Pedro and Wilmington, and the odd little strip of city that connects the harbor to Watts and South Los Angeles. January seems like an unusual time for a city election. Why now?

It's a runoff election to fill the open seat on the LA City Council created when Janice Hahn was elected to Congress. The candidates are Joe Buscaino, a popular senior lead officer with the LAPD in San Pedro, and Warren Furutani, a state assemblyman and former member of the school board in LA.

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