News August 10, 2012

Three Rent Control Board Candidates To Battle For Two Seats:

The two seats up for grabs on the Santa Monica Rent Control Board will be fought out between three candidates at the Nov. 6 general election.

Two are incumbents: Robert Kronovet and Ilse Rosenstein. The third candidate is attorney Christopher Walton.

They were the only three to pull papers in the race. All qualified for the ballot today with at least 100 signatures from Santa Monica residents on their petition. The deadline to submit papers was at 5 p.m.

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