There’s a bit of a twist in the only real Long Beach City Council race in the city, the Sixth District contest between incumbent Dee Andrews and challenger Ahmed Saafir.
Paul Eakins reports in this morning’s Press-Telegram that Andrews skipped last night’s NAACP candidates forum for school board and Sixth District candidates because of what Andrews [...]

Last night’s candidates’ forum featured plans, hopes and dreams from Long Beach Unified School District candidates; and from the two men vying to be your next Sixth District city councilman.
The latter two–incumbent Councilman Dee Andrews, and challenger Ahmed Saafir–laid out some of their plans for the Sixth District. There’s coverage at LBPost.com, and coverage coming [...]

This just in from LBPost.com: apparently, the two men in the one real Long Beach City Council race–challenger Ahmed Saafir and incumbent Dee Andrews, in the Sixth District–will face off in a candidates’ forum at 7 tonight.
They’ll be joined by two candidates in a different race–challenger Karen Thomas Hilburn and incumbent Jon Meyer, who are running [...]

Sixth District Councilman Dee Andrews had a fundraiser for his reelection tonight at the law offices of Keesal, Young & Logan, high above Ocean Boulevard–and the news was that less than two hours earlier, Andrews had secured a campaign endorsement from the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce.