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NO CHAMBER DECISION ON INFRASTRUCTURE BOND; MORE RICHARDSON CONTENDERS

Theo DouglasTue. August 19
 

It’s officially not official yet. Despite hearing from Mayor Bob Foster, and devoting considerable discussion to the topic, Long Beach Chamber of Commerce hasn’t decided how it feels about Hizzoner’s proposed $571 million infrastructure bond–which will be in our hands and on our ballots in November.

And it may not know how it feels until some time around Sept. 18. That’s according to a story in today’s Press-Telegram from John Canalis and Karen Robes Meeks which lays out the timeline in Technicolor.

Foster, of course, met Thursday with the chamber’s government affairs council. (We’re hoping they’re the ones who get to wear the fezzes. Fezzes are cool–and surprisingly strong.)

The council talked about it–but didn’t reach a decision and won’t vote on the issue until Sept. 11, according to Chamber CEO Randy Gordon. After that, the council’s  recommendation goes to  the chamber’s board of directors Sept. 18–which, if anyone’s counting, is just about six weeks before the November election.”We really want to hear from our members and do some due diligence,” Gordon told the P-T.

In other election news, Rep. Laura “Whose House? My House” Richardson (D-Long Beach) will have another challenger in November. This makes three–a-ha, one, two, three–three challengers in an election previously thought to be so uncontestable that the Republicans didn’t even run anybody.

Of course it’s not necessarily Richardson’s chances that have Wrigley Bulletin and News publisher Lee Davis stepping up to join Cypress College professor Peter Mathews as a write-in candidate.

“I think it’s gonna be very, very difficult to have her represent the district,” she told the P-T. “I really don’t think that there’s going to be anything but more embarrassment on a national level.”

Really? Come on–Richardson’s only defaulted on three mortgages; had one of those houses declared a public nuisance in our state’s capital; failed to pay three small business owners for their services in a timely fashion; and run Long Beach’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration nearly $5,000 into the red. (There’s your structural budget deficit.)

That’s not embarrassing at all.

Oh, and also, when the lender sold one of those houses out from under her, that same lender later mysteriously decided to rescind the loan and give the congresswoman back her house. And its new owner’s lawsuit was mysteriously settled with a gag order–and presumably, a waterbed stuffed with money.

Can someone give a freshman congresswoman a break?

Richardson’s third opponent is public school substitute teacher Nicholas Dibs, who manned up to collect the 7,759 signatures he needed by this month to actually get his name on the ballot opposite Richardson.

That’s right: Dibs–who went so far as to collect 218 more signatures than he needed–will be the only name printed on the ballot opposing Richardson.

If you’d like to vote for Davis or Mathews, you have to write their names in the ballot–hence the term.

Good night and good luck.

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    Hilarious. This is the same Lee Davis who made losing her home to a bank her central campaign issue for city council. The same Lee Davis who was recently evicted from her storefront residence/business in Wrigley. The same Lee Davis who lives in an studio apartment facing an alley and is constantly at odds with her neighbors. When was the last time she published anything? I can't believe that you guys even waisted time printing this nonsence. Now she's a nuisance!
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    "The council talked about it–but didn’t reach a decision and won’t vote on the issue until Sept. 11, according to Chamber CEO Randy Gordon. After that, the council’s recommendation goes to the chamber’s board of directors Sept. 18–which, if anyone’s counting, is just about six weeks before the November election.”We really want to hear from our members and do some due diligence,” Gordon told the P-T".

    The article makes it sound like this unionboss and his union members make the final, and most important, recommendation regarding this issue, prior to the election. geez randy you just might be as important as you think you are!
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    The chamber union decides to stay neutral? Whew, I bet the elected mayor is breathing a sigh of relief now that the unionboss self-appointed mayor won't overtly kick his ass-again!
 
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