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    Election in San Pedro

    Kevin Roderick discusses tomorrow's runoff election to fill the seat Janice Hahn vacated when she was elected to Congress.

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    By Kevin Roderick • Jan 17, 2012 • 1 min read

    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.

    15th Council District interesting to the rest of us?

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