Antelope Valley Press

Special election slated to replace ex-state lawmaker

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SACRAMENTO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday set a special election in Los Angeles County to replace state Sen. Holly Mitchell, who left in mid-term for the county Board of supervisor­s.

The special primary election will be March 2. If no candidate wins more than half the vote, a special runoff election will be May 4.

Mitchell’s departure temporaril­y leaves the Senate with 30 Democrats and nine Republican­s.

The 30th Senate District is the most heavily Democratic district in the state, according to the California Target Book, which tracks legislativ­e races.

Just 7% are registered Republican, 23% decline to state, and 65% Democratic.

It includes central and western Los Angeles County, including Culver City, Ladera Heights, View Park and West Athens, and the Los Angeles neighborho­ods of Downtown, South Los Angeles, Crenshaw, Mid-City, Century City, Cheviot Hills and Mar Vista.

Mitchell is endorsing as her successor Assemblywo­man Sydney Kamlager, who once was Mitchell’s district director, according to the Target Book. A victory by Kamlager would set up a chain-reaction special election to fill her Assembly seat

Two Democrats, Culver City councilman Daniel Lee and former state Board of Equalizati­on member Jerome Horton, have formed campaign committees, as has Republican Renita Duncan, a sergeant major in the U.S. Army Reserves.

The district includes the center of Los Angeles’ Black community and has the largest African-American voting population in the state, yet Latinos make up a majority of the district’s population, according to the Target Book.

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