Lee Davis, the publisher of a weekly Long Beach community newspaper, plans to challenge Rep. Laura Richardson, D-Long Beach, for the 37th District seat again in November, according to a news release she sent out today.
Davis ran against Richardson in the Democratic primary in June, and she will be joining another fellow candidate from that race who also plans to be a write-in -- Cypress College professor Peter Mathews.
Because Richardson and Mathews ran in the primary, their names can't appear on the ballot in November. That may only make an already uphill battle even tougher.
In June, Richardson blew away the competition, receiving 74.87 percent of the vote, despite reports in the weeks before the primary that Richardson's Sacramento home had gone into foreclosure. Subsequent reports have detailed other personal financial problems, focusing national media attention on Richardson. In the primary, Mathews had 16.67 percent of the vote and Davis got 8.46 percent.
Another factor in November will be independent candidate Nick Dibs, a Long Beach teacher who wll be the only candidate whose name actually appears on the ballot. The Republicans didn't even bother to field a candidate against Richardson this year in the heavily Democratic district, which includes Carson, Signal Hill, Compton and most of Long Beach.
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i believe there is a lot moree to say about the other candidates in this race and implications for ms r. and her inability to forsee such predicaments on the financial issues overall. i wish more info were out there on the opposition--write-in or otherwise. do the other candidates constitute a strictly blk & white issue (i don't think so with ms.l.davis.
we need to know a little more here!
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