DEMOCRACY, 0: Suppose they gave an election...
DEMOCRACY, 0: Suppose they gave an election and nobody came? . . . In the case of the Los Alamitos City Council, where no one appeared to challenge three incumbents, the Nov. 6 contest was simply called off, thus saving the city $6,000. . . . “If there had been other people interested, I would have been willing to go out and make a good campaign of it,” says incumbent Alice Jempsa.
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