Jackson wins 5-candidate Hermosa City Council race [Updated]
Hermosa Beach City Council candidate Raymond Jackson with wife Rachel and their sons. Photo courtesy of the Raymond Jackson campaign by Dan Blackburn Raymond Jackson, a retired Army colonel, turned a lifetime of unique professional responsibilities Tuesday night into an easy win for an open seat on the Hermosa Beach City Council. While a limited number of ballots remain to be counted, Jackson outpaced four other candidates to replace Hany Fangary, who resigned in December following a move to Manhattan Beach. With his win, Jackson becomes the first African-American to earn an elected position in the beach city. He will hold the seat until Nov. 2022. The candidate with the most votes wins; no majority is required. Source. LAVote.net The 3,474 votes counted by Wednesday morning represented a 23 percent turn-out from among Hermosa’s 15,108 registered voters. Just three of the votes counted by Wednesday morning were dropped off at ballot centers. The balance were mailed in. There were no polling places. “I’d sure rather be where we are right now,” Jackson told Easy Reader minutes after the polls closed at 8 p.m., “than where the others are.” He was resting on a 10.5 percentage point…
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