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Rep. Linda Sanchez to run in new 38th Congressional District

By Jean Merl
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Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Lakewood) announced Wednesday that she will seek election in the newly drawn 38th Congressional District in southeast Los Angeles County.

She will avoid a contest with the current representative of the area, Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-Norwalk), who said Wednesday she’ll run instead in the new 32nd Congressional District in the San Gabriel Valley.

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But Sanchez will get competition instead from state Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello), who previously announced his plans to run for Congress in the 38th District.

Sanchez said in a statement that the new 38th District includes nearly half of the old 39th District, which she has represented since 2003. Communities include Artesia, Cerritos, Hawaiian Gardens, Lakewood, La Mirada and Whittier.

-- Jean Merl

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Jean Merl

Jean Merl, a hopeless news junkie, covered regional politics for the Los Angeles Times until 2015. She was raised in southern Ohio but moved with her family to Los Angeles at a tender age, which practically makes her a California native. She holds a master’s degree from UCLA and remembers when Otis Chandler was publisher of The Times and Tom Bradley was mayor of L.A.

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