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Fatima Iqbal-Zubair wasn’t going to let a new election map stop her from running for office. After she was drawn out of her district, she sold her house and moved her family into her home district of south Los Angeles so that she could run for office there. It was important for her to run in the district where she’d been serving as a tutor and a mentor, where she had seen the effects of income inequality, underfunded schools, and environmental injustice. It was also important for her to take on the incumbent, Mike Gipson, a fellow Democrat, whom she believed was not serving the best interests …