Tag: Janice Hahn

Republicans had hoped to see an upset in the special election for Rep. Jane Harman’s Los Angeles-area congressional seat yesterday similar to the reversal in the special election in New York in May, in which which Democrat Kathy Hochul won the longtime Republican seat once held by Jack Kemp.

But they were delusional — California’s 36th District includes anything-goes-and-then-some Venice Beach, for crying out loud. Plus, the Republican in the race was a teavangelical, who self-funded his race, which is an increasingly unpopular strategy among California voters. It didn’t help the Republican that an outside right-wing group produced an ad against the Democrat, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, that keyed off her work in gang intervention to recast her as a pole-dancing stripper.

Hahn, whose family has been movers and shakers in the Democratic Party in Los Angeles for decades, bested the bagger by nine points:

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