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Richard Bloom is getting in the race to succeed the terming-out Julie Brownley. He talks to Sharon Waxman at The Wrap about it. Torie Osborn, the onetime adviser to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former executive director of Liberty Hill, is also geared up to run.
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