Rivals Hahn, Richardson endorse same Assembly candidate

Jan. 11, 2012 5:43 PM PT

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Democratic Reps. Janice Hahn and Laura Richardson, who are competing for the same Los Angeles-area congressional seat, may not agree on much these days. But they do like the same candidate for a seat in the state Assembly.

Reginald Jones-Sawyer, one of several Democrats running for the open 59th Assembly District seat in Los Angeles, has been endorsed by both Hahn and Richardson.

And who is Jones-Sawyer’s pick for that 44th Congressional District seat that the two House members are vying for?

“I believe he is staying out of that race,” Dave Jacobson of Jones-Sawyer’s campaign responded in an email.

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-- 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.