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Barack Obama took the first victory, and Echo Park's rep. on the city council, Eric Garcetti, was in Iowa campaigning for him. Garcetti has not updated his CD-13 blog since post-xmas December, but he did write in from icy Iowa, on Jan. 2, to Andrew Malcolm's L.A. Times blog with comments about Obama, the boathouse and other Echo Park matters. He took vacation time for the Iowa trip.
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