(June 14, 2016) -- In today's updated count of ballots in LB's 2nd Council district runoff, Jeannine Pearce now leads Eric Gray by 190 votes.
The LA County Registrar/Recorder provided us with these updated figures at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday (June 14):
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LA County Registrar/Recorder spokesperson Aaron Nevarez says the ballots counted today consisted mainly of vote by mail ballots, postmarked by June 7 that arrived within a three day window thereafter. Mr. Nevarez didn't have a precise figure on what types of ballots or how many still remain to be counted but said it is a smaller number than those counted today; another count including those remaining ballots is scheduled for Friday. However Mr. Gray would need over 70% of remaining votes to overtake Ms. Pearce...who thus appears to be LB's next 2nd district Councilmember.
Ms. Pearce was backed by organized labor and endorsed by exiting incumbent/Vice Mayor Lowenthal. Mr. Gray was supported by business interests and an independent expenditure committee associated with former Mayor Bob Foster ("you don't see my name on it") that two years earlier backed Robert Garcia for Mayor. (Mr. Gray was an enthusiastic supporter of Garcia's 2014 Mayoral candidacy; Mayor Garcia took no public position in the 2nd dist. Council race.)
Both Ms. Pearce and Mr. Gray supported the City Hall-sought sales tax increase (Measure A) and were mainly uncritical of exiting 2nd district incumbent Lowenthal and City Hall's current leadership. The 2nd district Council race concludes the 2016 Council election cycle which re-elected incumbents Dee Andrews (6th dist, won with over 50% in April avoiding runoff using term-limit bypass write-in procedure), Al Austin (8th dist., received over 50% in April avoiding runoff) and Daryl Supernaw (4th dist., no ballot opposition.)
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