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LA Marathon changes 2009 race date to February 16, 2009
By admin | September 22, 2008
The Los Angeles City Council voted on Friday on item number #46 by a majority vote to change the 2009 LA Marathon race date from Sunday March 1, 2009 to Monday, February 16, 2009.
This is how the LA City Council voted on Friday September 19, 2008:
RICHARD ALARCON 7 YES
TONY CARDENAS 6 YES
ERIC GARCETTI 13 YES
WENDY GREUEL 2 YES
JANICE HAHN 15 NO
JOSE HUIZAR 14 YES
TOM LABONGE 4 NO
BERNARD C PARKS 8 YES
JAN PERRY 9 YES
ED REYES 1 YES
BILL ROSENDAHL 11 YES
GREIG SMITH 12 YES
JACK WEISS 5 YES
HERB WESSON 10 YES
DENNIS ZINE 3 YES
Starting in 2009, and every year there after, the race will commence on a Monday on Presidents Day.
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October 1st, 2008 at 1:03 am
this is a major what i would call “non-recoverable” mistake….
i say in 3 to 5 years the race will either change again or be out of business….i say the latter by 2012…