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flog Anodes STimea COUNCIL: Russell Forced Into Runoff 24 Part IWedncsday, April IS, 1987 LF ''1' Mi ffii i -iniTiin inmmiK mtfMTl MICHAEL EDWARDS Los Angeles Times Ruth Galanter, left, and Councilwoman Pat Russell, opponents in the 6th District, at MARSHA TRAEGER Los Angeles Times their respective headquarters. Continued from Page 1 excited about the runoff" in the 6th District. "I 'm looking forward to talking to more voters than I did in this campaign I don't expect to be sleeping late tomorrow." Galanter, with help from neighborhood and environmental groups in and out of the district, emerged as the challenger with the broadest support. She raised more money than any of the other candidates against Russell, including a contribution from producer and liberal activist Norman Lear. However, her $32,000 in contributions was but a fraction of Russell's $262,000.

Galanter also received help from the League of Conservation Voters, which estimated spending $8,500 on her behalf. The 15 turnout was typically low for the elections, which affected nearly half the 15-member Los Angeles City Council as well as five of seven city school board seats and four of seven seats on the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. Elsewhere in the city, incumbents Richard Alatorre in the 14th District, Hal Bernson in the 12th District, Robert Farrell in the 8th, John Ferraro in the 4th and Joel Wachs in the 2nd all were victorious in races against generally unknown and under-financed challengers. In the 6th District, running from Westchester to Venice to Crenshaw, the race presented Russell with the toughest political challenge of her career on the council. Led by Galanter and Venice journalist Patrick McCartney, Russell's opponents also included Rim-mon C.

Fay, 57, a marine biologist and life guard; Salvatore Gramma-tico, 34, a real estate agent, and businesswoman Virginia Taylor Hughes, 41. Russell's opposition last year to Proposition the popular anti-growth initiative that passed overwhelmingly in her district, gave rise to the belief that she had fallen out of step with her constituents. Russell, 63, has been the grand dame of the City Council. A confidant of the mayor, twice elected City Council president, mountain climber, marathon runner and grandmother, she went into the race with more money than all of her opponents combined and a list of political endorsements extending from Bradley to Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky. Nevertheless, Russell was vulnerable.

Increasingly identified with a clique of powerful real estate developers and lobbyists, Russell had alienated a number of her constituents and had became a target of the kind of neighborhood-based reform movement that swept her into office in 1969. But there was more at stake than her career. Russell was a stalking horse for Bradley, her friend and ally, in an election that tested the popularity of the mayor's policies on the crucial issues of growth and development. Alliance With Bradley The contest pitted the Bradley-Russell preference for measured growth against the strength of a movement, manifested by Proposition that warns of the city strangling in its own congestion and pollution. Bradley, squarely behind Russell, campaigned for her in the week before the election.

The campaign against her focused on her role in massive new development in the district four projects adding up to several million square feet of offices, stores and homes. The largest of the developments, just north of Westchester and impinging on the Ballona Wetlands, the city's only coastal wildlife refuge, would amount to a new town. Called Playa Vista, it would be built on 800 to 900 acres of open land with a projected population of about 30,000. Russell argued that Playa Vista MARSHA TRAEGER Los Angeles Times LARRY DAVIS Los Angeles Times Joel Wachs in his office Tuesday with cowboy boot charm, and Homer Broome with some friends at his election headquarters. MM last-minute mailings as "carpetbaggers." Broome made much of his ties to Bradley and emphasized his record as a former police officer who could tackle the crime problem.

The 10th stretches southwest of downtown Los Angeles, across the mid-city neighborhoods and into Palms, an area that was added in the recent redistricting. In the San Fernando Valley, Wachs overcame difficulties posed by a new district and by ugly campaign literature that accused him of promoting activities that spread AIDS. A mailer sent to 22,000 homes in the district attacked Wachs for serving as grand marshal of the West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade in 1983. After redistricting exiled him from the liberal, cosmopolitan constituency he had represented for 16 years and placed him in a conservative, semi-rural district, Wachs campaigned furiously. He appeared before more than 100 community groups, opposed a controversial development in one of the district's more scenic spots, the Tujunga Wash, and sponsored a country music festival attended by more than 150,000 people.

Police Tax Fight The 48-year-old Wachs enjoyed a substantial financial advantage over his three opponents. He came into the campaign with more than $600,000 in his campaign treasury and raised $172,000 more, which he used to flood the district with mailers. In the northwest valley's 12th District, 56-year-old Bernson, first elected in 1979, was opposed by Richard K. Williams II, an assistant dean of student programs at California State University, North-ridge. In the 8th District, incumbent Farrell, 50, faced five opponents.

The biggest issue in that race was Farrell's sponsorship of a proposed police tax for residents in South Los Angeles. Under the plan, which will be on PWs nents in the Eastside 14th District in winning his first full term in office. Alatorre, a former state assemblyman, had won the council seat in a special election in December, 1985. Also contributing to election coverage were Stephanie Chavez, Alan Citron, Janet Clayton, Alma Cook, Cathleen Decker, David Ferrell, Gabe Fuentes, Tra-cey Kaplan, Victor Merina, Alan C. Miller, Pamela Moreland, Richard Simon, Jill Stewart, Ted Vollmer, Bob Williams and Elaine Woo.

AIL STYLES DOUSLE LOCKS LOWEST F1UCES (2131 828-1259 (818) 997-7333 EASTER SUNDAY BRUNCH 11:00 TO 3:00 DINNER 4:00 T0 10:00 the June 2 ballot, property owners served by four Los Angeles Police Department divisions Newton, Southwest, Southeast and 77th would pay higher taxes to put 300 more officers on the streets. If it is approved, the average homeowner would pay an estimated $148 a year. Veteran councilman Ferraro, 62, won a fifth term in the 4th District despite having to run in a redrawn district. Ferraro campaigned by largely ignoring his challenger, Sal Genovese, the owner of a counseling service. Alatorre, 43, defeated two oppo LET US REPLACE YOUR OLD SEAT-UP LIC.

478-428 2138 HILLHURST AVENUE. LOS ANGELES 863-8001 Whirlpool OIIMC COMING JRWooim It ZERO DOWN SPRING THE VOTE LOS ANGELES District 2 100 Precincts Reporting Voim Joel Wachs (inc) 9,327 Jerry Allan Hays 4,214 Georgetta Wilmeth 431 Jack E. Davis 399 District 4 100 Precincts Reporting John Ferraro (inc) 10,775 SalGenovese 2,391 District 6 99 Precincts Reporting Pat Russell (inc) 10,697 Ruth Galanter 7,435 Patrick McCartney 4,245 Virginia Taylor Hughes 1 ,238 RimmonC. Fay 1,207 Salvatore Grammatico. 521 District8 99 Precincts Reporting Robert Farrell (inc) 8,347 Tony Parent 3,013 Mervin Evans 1,148 Earlene W.

James 1 ,062 John S. Jackson 950 Alice M. Moore 793 64.9 29.3 2.9 2.7 81.8 18.1 42.2 29.3 16.7 4.8 4.7 2.0 54.5 19.6 7.4 6.9 6.2 5.1 and the other projects are substantially smaller than they could have been had she not been a forceful advocate of controlled development. She pointed to her coastal transportation ordinance, which became a model of a citywide law and the best expression, to date, of Bradley's philosophy of balanced growth. The ordinance permits development to proceed in heavily congested parts of town, but only if developers agree to pay for transportation improvements from widened streets to new rail lines-necessary to handle the traffic their projects create.

In the largely black 10th District, where residents have been without a City Council member for six months, the race started with no clear-cut favorite. As the campaign wound down, it became a contest between the best-known candidate, Holden, and three well-connected challengers with some potential spoilers in the background. Links to Machines Holden relied heavily on his identification with and support from county Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. Holden is on leave from Hahn's staff. Broome, a former public works commissioner, depended largely on the political backing of Bradley, who once represented the 10th District on the council.

Broome was able to raise more money than any of the other candidates. But in a campaign where crime and economic revitalization were major issues, Holden and Broome had to fend off accusations that they were tied to political machines that only moved into the 10th District when former Councilman David Cunningham resigned last fall. Holden and Broome moved into the district or re-established residences there last year, and their lesser-known and under-financed rivals hammered away at them at political forums and in a blizzard of CLEARANCE SALE! OUTSTANDING DEALER AWARO '84 '85 '08 HUNDREDS Of REFERENCES FREE ESTIMATES LA CO. 213-725-7211 VESJSSESS SF VALLEY 818-789-4125 ORANGE CO. 714-630-8700 SG VALLEY 818-576-7717 PER MONTH (Average 3 Bedroom Home) kG LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 99 Precincts Reporting VVUJL JLJL District 1 Wallace Knox 72,822 38.0 Patricia Hollingsworth.

42,386 22.1 M. F. Richman (inc) 33,541 17.5 WilliamOrozco 28,134 14.7 DeborahS. Le 14,540 7.6 District 3 M. A.

Hudson (inc) 92,341 49.1 Julia LWu 42,224 22.4 Bernard Friedman 36,487 19.4 Marjorie Ann 16,986 9.0 CITY COUNCIL District 10 99 Precincts Reporting Vom NateHolden 4,366 Homer Broome Jr 3,257 MyrlieEvers 2,601 Geneva Cox 2,813 Arthur Song Jr 2,225 Kenneth M. Orduna 2,015 Jessie Mae Beavers 1,466 Denise G. Fairchild 1 1 08 Jordan Daniels Jr 379 Grover P. Walker 161 Ramona R. Whitney 106 Esther M.

Lofton 106 William A. Weaver 74 21.1 15.7 12.5 13.6 10.7 9.7 7.0 5.3 1.8 0.8 0.5 0.5 0.3 District 12 99 Precincts Reporting Hal Bemson (inc) 11,763 79.8 Richard K.Williams 2,963 20.2 District 14 99 Precincts Reporting Richard Alatorre (inc). 6,626 60.0 Rex Gutierrez 3,188 28.9 Loren Leonard Lutz 1,213 11.0 Districts Harold W.Garvin (inc) 116,419 62.5 Frank Mazzi 39,055 20.9 Mark MacCarley 30,689 16.4 District 7 David Lopez-Lee 71,584 38.0 Richard E. Ferraro 43,842 23.2 Elizabeth M. Rowen 1 9,994 Carmen E.

Luna 1 9,306 Noel Stone 15,308 Douglas Lasken 1 2,804 5,428 10.6 10.2 8.1 6.8 2.8 Districts Leticla Ouezada 9,242 55.9 Raul Ruiz 4,430 26.8 Frank Tamayo 2,850 17.2 District 7 Warren Furutanl J.R. Greenwood (inc). 11,257 51.0 10,810 48.9 Elected candidates are in bold. Indicates runoff candidates. Results compiled by Meg Burby, Alma Cook, Norman Duarte, Bill Mc Elhaney and Sharon Skelton.

MONTHLY AIR TIME AS LOW AS $000 PER MONTH COMPARE VALUE! Today's paging customers want lower rates SoCal, the "CHEAPER BEEPER" company, has just what you need. TODAY! LOS ANGELES UNIFIED BOARD OF EDUCATION 100 Precincts Reporting CORRECTION NOTICE IN THE SEARS CIRCULAR, EFFECTIVE APRIL 15-18, 1987, AN ERROR APPEARS ON PAGE 3A AND 2B. ON PAGE 3A, INCORRECT ILLUSTRATION APPEARS FOR THE PAPER TOWELS FOR $1 AND $1.50. ON PAGE 2B, THE SUPERGUARD II TIRES ARE INCORRECTLY ADVERTISED AT 40 OFF, WHEN IN FACT, THEY ARE AVAILABLE AT SEAH.3 REGULAR LOW PRICE AT THIS TIME. WE REGRET ANY INCONVENIENCE THESE ERRORS MAY HAVE CAUSED.

District 1 Rita D. Walters (inc) 3 1 ,456 69. 1 Mark Ridley-Thomas 9,685 21.2 Annie N. Richardson 2,726 5.9 Dorothy Rugley 1,606 3.5 District3 Jackie Goldberg (inc). 12,788 63.9 Tony Trias 4,207 21.0 Howard 0.

Watts 2,994 14.9 District 4 Julie Korenstein 7,629 24.6 Barbara Romey 7,088 22.9 George St. Johns 3,958 12.8 Bunny Field 3,706 11.9 Douglas J. Wolf 3,156 10.2 Marilynn M. Neville 2,852 9.2 Marklsler 2,512 8.1 Yom Decide. We need help.

Right now. To feed the hungry, shelter the homeless. To save lives on Main Street in L.A. Please, give as if his life depended on it. It does.

CHEAPER BEEPER In our April 15th ad, on the back page the Aluminum Foil is incorrectly pictured as a 75 ft. roll. The correct picture should be a 25 ft. roll. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused our customers.

YES, my gift to help the homeless is enclosed. $10 to feed 10 hungry people. $25 to give 100 men a bed for the night. $100 to give a nourishing meal and a night's rest to 75 homeless people. $1 ,000 to support the ministries of the mission.

cfr! to help renew broken lives. Name Address City, State, Zip Make your check to Ihe Union Rescue Mission. Donations arc tax deductible. 800-247-4359 CALL FOR FULL DETAILS LHION RESCUE MISSION 7 SOCAL COMMUNICATIONS Serving Mail with your gift to: P.O. Box 629-A, Dept.

226 S. the homeless of Los Angeles since 189) Union Rescue Mission, Main Los Angeles, CA 90053.

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