Meet the Redondo mayoral candidates
Elections are just under six weeks away, and the four candidates for mayor are hitting the pavement, trying to reach every last voter in all of Redondo’s five constituencies. In the lead-up to March 5, Easy Reader will bring you profiles of each candidate running for office, starting this week with mayoral contenders Pat Aust, Steve Aspel, Matt Kilroy, and Eric Coleman. ‘I’m a hometown guy’ Pat Aust. Photo supplied For 44 of his 64 years, Pat Aust has worked for the City of Redondo Beach. Born and raised in the South Bay, he considers himself a “hometown guy” who married his high school sweetheart – they are still together, and have two grown children – and developed, early on, a fascination with the history of his city. Aust, who is serving his second term as the District 3 councilmember, spent 33 years working as a fireman for the city. For nine of them, he held the reins as fire chief. Post-retirement, he was elected to president of the board of the Beach Cities Health District, to president of the Historical Society, and eventually to City Council. He now divides his time between preserving the city’s history – he has 4,000 old photographs of Redondo Beach, and his home (built…
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