Furutani elected

In a test for the local labor movement, Warren Furutani, a long-time local educator, fell short of an outright victory in an election for the state Assembly.

Furutani, a member of the Community College Board of Trustees and a former Los Angeles Unified School District board, had 49.2 pecent of the vote, the country Registrar reported. He will be in a Feb. 5 runoff against Libertarian Herb Peters and American Independent candidate Charlotte Sadiyah Gibson. Carson City councilman Mke Gibson, a Democrat, had placed second wit 38 percent of the vote.

The district, whifch includes portisn of Long Beach and the Harbor City area, was holding a special election crated with the election of Laura Richardson to Congress.

Furutani was the beneficiary of assistance from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, which poured in workers and money to get out the vote for him.