Local News in Brief : Candidate Re-Enters Race

Thomas A. Jolly, who had announced that he was dropping out of the El Segundo City Council race, is back in it.

The 59-year-old Jolly, a self-described inventor and designer, said Wednesday that he left the seven-candidate race because of his wife’s high blood pressure.

Jolly said his wife’s blood pressure is now back to normal. “Grudgingly, she gave me permission to re-enter the race,” he said.

Jolly, who describes himself as “pro-resident,” supports a controlled-growth measure that will appear on next week’s ballot, but he had not made up his mind whether to back another measure that would impose a utility-user’s tax on industry.