CANDIDATES FILING FOR APRIL 9 SPECIAL ELECTION

The Los Angeles city clerk’s office has announced that the following 26 candidates have filed a declaration of intention to run in the April 9 special election--which will coincide with the regular city election--because of the death last December of Councilman Gilbert W. Lindsay. Candidates have until Feb. 6 to collect a minimum of 1,000 signatures of registered voters in their district or pay a $300 filing fee and collect 500 signatures. Descriptions are the candidates’ own.

City Council District 9

Donald L. Barnett, U.S. postal employee

Armando Becerra, dry cleaner employee

Theodore Bey, businessman, community activist

Margo Bouchet, attorney

Pauline Clay, financial planner

Albert James Davis, business representative

Alberta Dawson, teacher

Woodrow Fleming, labor union executive

Bob Gay, city councilman’s deputy

Michael Graves, businessman

Charles David Henry, community advocate

Ocie P. Hinkle, businesswoman, community activist

Joseph Abraham Hubbard Jr., communicator, activist

Argo J. Hyman III, detention services officer

Jerry W. Lee Jr., law clerk

Francisco C. Moreno, press consultant

Gerardo Javier Mosqueda, small business owner

Regina Nelson, business administration student

Richard Patrick O’Meara, disabled veteran, businessman

Brad Pye Jr., assistant chief deputy to county supervisor

Barbara Ratliff, teacher, attorney, businesswoman

Michael Schaefer, public interest attorney

Lang Stanley, college counselor, professor

Pedro Torres, community activist

Rita Dolores Walters, school board member

Leon A. Watkins, community activist