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Democrat Betsy Butler wins open South Bay Assembly seat

By Bettina Boxall
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Democrat Betsy Butler won an open state Assembly seat in the South Bay, beating Republican engineer Nathan Mintz of Redondo Beach by 7 percentage points in the 53rd Assembly District.

With 100% of precincts reporting, Butler, a former fundraiser for a trial attorneys organization, turned back an unexpectedly strong challenge and wound up with 50.3% of the vote.

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--Bettina Boxall

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Bettina Boxall

Bettina Boxall covered water and the environment for the Los Angeles Times before retiring in 2021 after 34 years at the paper. She shared the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting with colleague Julie Cart for their five-part series on the causes and effects of escalating wildfire in the West.

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