The entire Signal Hill City Council—all five of ‘em—have voted to endorse Long Beach City Council member Bonnie Lowenthal in her race for the 54th Assembly District seat against former Palos Verdes school board member Gabriella Holt.
“Bonnie will be a dynamic person for all the people of the 54th Assembly District,” said Mayor Michael Noll, apparently speaking for the entire [...]

Long Beach city council member Bonnie Lowenthal’s bid for the 54th Assembly District seat has been endorsed by former Mayor Beverly O’Neill. Lowenthal’s campaign announced the endorsement this morning in  a press release that describes the retired three-term mayor as “a local civic icon.”
Lowenthal, a Democrat, is competing with Republican Gabriella Holt for the office left vacant [...]

Tonia Reyes Uranga is campaigning door-to-door for the 54th Assembly District with passion in her heart and potted plants in her hands, but will it be enough to beat Bonnie Lowenthal and end the 16-election winning streak of Long Beach’s First Family of politics?

PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
Huge swaths of unrolled butcher paper hang from the [...]

There was no meeting of the Long Beach City Council on Tuesday night — never is on the last Tuesday of the month – but as if by habit local politicos threw their weight around, anyway.
Councilmembers Patrick O’Donnell and Val Lerch announced their endorsement of Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal in her campaign for the 54th District’s seat in the California [...]

(UPDATED AND EXTENDED VERSION OF AN EARLIER POST)
 The Long Beach City Council used harsh words and a unanimous vote against its erstwhile hometown newspaper Tuesday night, resolving to “reevaluate” the hundreds of thousands of dollars it spends with the Press-Telegram every year, now that the paper will be operated by the publisher of the Daily [...]

Long Beach City Council members Tonia Reyes Uranga and Bonnie Lowenthal want to run for the California State Assembly’s 54th District seat this year. Before they actually go through with it, however, they’ve got to lose an election.
The candidacies of Lowenthal and Reyes Uranga hinge on the defeat of Proposition 93, the Term-Limit-Tweaking initiative on the [...]