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L.A. Votes on a New Mayor

Today is election day in Los Angeles, and the mayor's race this year has been tinged with talk of runaway production, tax incentives, SuperPACs and celebrity endorsements. Yesterday, the campaign of Councilman Eric Garcetti boasted that Jane Fonda was tweeting her support.

Here's a HuffPost Live chat I participated in on Monday evening, with James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times, Gene Maddaus of LA Weekly, Huffington Post's Anna Almendrala and host Jacob Soboroff.

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