Harbor Gateway: September 2011 Archives

The Los Angeles City Clerk this morning finished its signature verification process on nominating petitions. (James T. Law was the last candidate to be checked -- his petitions had an insufficient number of valid signatures, bumping him from the competition.)

Eleven candidates will appear on the Nov. 8 special election ballot. If no one receives more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff will be held in January.

The race (which is nonpartisan) is to fill the Harbor-to-Watts seat on the L.A. City Council that was left vacant when Janice Hahn won election to Congress this summer.

The candidates (in the order they will appear on the primary ballot):

1. Frank Pereyda
2. Jayme Wilson
3. Gordon Teuber
4. Joe Buscaiono
5. Justin I. Brimmer 
6. Rebecca Chambliss
7. Pat McOsker
8. Warren Furutani
9. M. "Candice" Graham
10. Rudy Svorinich Jr.
11. John. M. Delgado Jr.

We're still waiting for the Los Angeles City Clerk to verify petition signatures on four remaining candidates (the Clerk's Office has until Sept. 22, but everyone's hoping they'll be able to wrap it up by the end of the day Friday). 

We still have a little bit of news for you, though.

City officials today conducted the random drawing that determines the order in which candidates will appear on the Nov. 8 special election ballot. (The order is determined by holding a random drawing of the letters of the alphabet.)

So here it is (the four candidates still awaiting verification are in parentheses):

1. (James T. Law)
2. Frank Pereyda
3. Jayme Wilson
4. Gordon Teuber
5. Justin I. Brimmer
6. Joe Buscaino
7. Rebecca Chambliss
8. Pat McOsker
9. (Kambiz "Mostofi" Mostofizadeh)
10. (Robert Farrell)
11. Warren Furutani
12. (M. "Candice" Graham)
13. Rudy Svorinich Jr.
14. John M. Delgado Jr.
    

The latest candidates to qualify for the Nov. 8 special election in Los Angeles City Council District 15 are Justin Brimmer and Frank Pereyda.

Already qualifying are Joe Buscaino, Rebecca Chambliss, John Delgado Jr., Assemblyman Warren Furutani, Pat McOsker, Gordon Teuber, Rudy Svorinich Jr. and Jayme Wilson.

Still awaiting signature verifications are Robert Farrell, M. "Candice" Graham, James Law and Kambiz "Mostofi" Mostofizadeh.

Jayme Wilson qualified for the ballot today in the Nov. 8 special election race to represent the Harbor-to-Watts district on the Los Angeles City Council.

Joe Buscaino and Pat McOsker also have been qualified for the ballot after the City Clerk's office verified their respective 500 nominating petition signatures.

Candidate Rebecca Chambliss also turned in her petitions earlier this week but was found to be 53 signatures short in the verification process. She's picked up supplemental petitions and will be attempting to make up the difference before Monday's 5 p.m. deadline.

That leaves 16 candidates who filed paperwork to run who are still busy putting their petition signatures together. Many will likely be turned in Friday to allow for some wiggle room in case they, too, come up short. We'll keep you posted. We're anticipating having a final ballot list by Tuesday or Wednesday next week at the latest.