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February 6, 2000 | JEAN MERL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
As local political contests go politically moderate 36th Congressional District will be about as big as they get. Considered a key battleground in the struggle to control Congress, it has already drawn national attention, and leaders of both major political parties are poised to direct money and other aid from around the country into the fray. The race is so important that President Clinton appeared as a special guest at a Harman fund-raiser in Washington last week, while House Speaker J.
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November 17, 2000 | LAURA WIDES, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
After more than a week of uncertainty and hopes for a boost from absentee ballots, Republican Rep. Steve Kuykendall on Thursday conceded his defeat by Democrat Jane Harman in the election for the South Bay's 36th Congressional District seat. "We've counted enough absentee ballots that it seems appropriate at this time to concede," said Kuykendall in a telephone interview after returning from Washington to the Venice-to-San Pedro district.
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November 11, 2000 | JEAN MERL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Tabulations of the first wave of uncounted ballots in two area races for the U.S. House of Representatives slightly widened the victors' margins Friday, election officials said. In the South Bay's 36th District, Democrat Jane Harman picked up 2,129 votes, while Rep. Steven T. Kuykendall (R-Rancho Palos Verdes) got 2,042. Friday's update put the total vote to date at 109,104, or 48.4%, for Harman and 105,184, or 46.7%, for Kuykendall. In the neighboring 38th District, Rep.
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September 24, 2000 | JEAN MERL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
An issue-packed forum Saturday helped delineate some substantive differences between the main candidates in the South Bay's 36th Congressional District--a key seat in the battle this fall for control of the U.S. House of Representatives. The two centrist candidates, former Rep. Jane Harman, a Democrat who held the seat for three terms before giving it up two years ago when she made an unsuccessful run for governor, and the man who succeeded her, Rep. Steven T.
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October 8, 1996 | DOUGLAS P. SHUIT, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Steve Kuykendall, a Republican state assemblyman, is hosting a cocktail party at a rent-a-ballroom under the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the Los Angeles Harbor. As he speaks to a group of 100 or so Republican supporters, massive container ships go by every few minutes, filling up the bay windows behind him. As symbols go, the harbor is a fitting one for Kuykendall.
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October 17, 2000 | JEAN MERL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Led by combatants in the super-costly battle for the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena area's 27th Congressional District, candidates in Southern California's hottest House of Representatives races continue to amass large sums, the latest federal records showed Monday. Together, Rep. James E. Rogan (R-Glendale) and his main challenger, state Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), have raised $9.