The Region - News from May 22, 1986
Richard Polanco, a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the Eastside’s 55th Assembly District, filed suit against rival Mike Hernandez in an effort to stop Hernandez from identifying himself in campaign literature as “the Democratic nominee for state Assembly.” Polanco, Hernandez and three others are competing for the Democratic nomination in the June 3 primary. On the same day, Polanco is facing a Republican and two minor-party candidates in a special election to fill the Assembly seat, left vacant when Assemblyman Richard Alatorre was elected to the Los Angeles City Council.
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