Simi Valley Challenges to Heat Up Spring Primaries : Campaigns: A legislative aide and a developer will battle the assembly and congressional incumbents for the GOP nominations.

Two Simi Valley lawmakers should provide the hottest local primaries this spring: Veteran Assemblywoman Cathie Wright, who faces a major challenge from legislative aide Hunt Braly, and Rep. Elton Gallegly, in a rematch with developer Sang Korman.

The race to replace retiring Assemblywoman Marian W. La Follette (R-Northridge) also promises to be contentious. Four contenders had filed for La Follette’s seat Friday, but others have until March 14 to enter that race under a state law that grants more time to enter a race in which the incumbent is not a candidate.

Friday was the deadline, however, to enter most June primaries.

In the Republican primary for the 37th Assembly District seat, Braly, who works for state Sen. Ed Davis (R-Valencia), has promised to question the ethics of Wright, who came under fire last year for intervening in traffic cases involving her daughter.

Democrat Dennis Petrie, a political novice from Canyon Country, also filed for the 37th Assembly District.

In other state Legislative races affecting the Valley:

Assemblyman Pat Nolan (R-Glendale) faces opposition from four contenders for his 41st District seat. They are David Velasquez, a Peace and Freedom Party candidate from Glendale; Curtis S. Helms, Libertarian, of Pasadena; and Democrats Rod McKenzie of Altadena and Jeanette Mann of Pasadena.

Sen. Alan Robbins (D-Tarzana) is opposed in the 20th District by David J. Podegracz, Republican, of Van Nuys, and William Mirken, Libertarian, of Sepulveda.

So far, the hopefuls for La Follette’s 38th Assembly District seat are: Leah Parker, Peace and Freedom, of La Crescenta; Charles Majbergier, Peace and Freedom, of Northridge; and Democrats Irene Allert of Burbank, and Gary Crandall, Grenada Hills.

La Follette’s aide, Republican Robert Wilcox, is also expected to run.

In the Valley’s five congressional races, all incumbents are heavily favored to win reelection.

Gallegly, who is seeking a third two-year term in the 21st District, will have a Republican rematch with Korman, a Calabasas real estate developer. Gallegly trounced Korman in 1988.

Democrat Richard D. Freiman of Agoura Hills, and Libertarian Peggy Christensen of Granada Hills are also seeking the 21st District seat.

Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Panorama City), who is seeking his fifth term, is opposed in the 26th District Democratic primary by Scott Gaulke from Studio City. Also running are Republicans Roy Dahlson of Van Nuys and Gary Forsch of Sun Valley, and Libertarian Bernard Zimring.

Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Los Angeles), who has often drawn primary challenges in the past, is unopposed among 23rd District Democrats this year. He faces a probable November rematch with Jim Salomon, a Beverly Hills trade consultant seeking the Republican nomination.

Beilenson won 63.5% of the vote in the 1988 general election but Salomon has continued to raise money ever since in a bid to wage a more aggressive, high-profile campaign this year. The 23rd District stretches from Canoga Park and Reseda in the West Valley, then southward across the Santa Monica Mountains to the Westside, from Pacific Palisades to West Hollywood.

Peace and Freedom candidate John Honigsfeld of Los Angeles is also running for the second time in the 23rd District.

Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) also faces a likely Republican opponent who he easily dispatched two years ago. John N. Cowles, a Los Angeles manufacturing executive, is unopposed in the 24th District GOP primary. Peace and Freedom candidates Vikki Murdock of Lakewood and Maggie Phair of Los Angeles are also running.

In the 22nd District, Tom Vournas, 65, a retired public school teacher and veteran Democratic campaign volunteer from Altadena, is unopposed for his party’s nomination to oppose Rep. Carlos J. Moorhead (R-Glendale), an 18-year lawmaker.

William Wilson of Pasadena is the district’s Libertarian candidate, and Jan B. Tucker is running on the Peace and Freedom ticket.