Original sentence: In 2005, as an incumbent, Jan Perry ran against Peter Torres, a Los Angeles Police Department officer from the Newton Division and Edward Paul Reyes, a former U.S Marine with a B.from UC Berkeley
Edited sentence: After her service as Acting Mayor during the Michael Jackson memorial at Staples Center, there was speculation that she could be a candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles in 2013.At the end of her current term in 2013, she will be ineligible to run for reelection.Perry was elected to office in 2001 to succeed Councilwoman Rita Walters, for whom she had served as Chief of Staff.She was reelected in 2005 and 2009 facing token opposition