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 [...]

Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe added his powerful endorsement to Republican Gabriella Holt’s campaign for the 54th Assembly District seat this morning, choosing her over Long Beach City Council member Bonnie Lowenthal in the race to replace termed-out Betty Karnette.
The announcement kind of caught me by surprise, although maybe it shouldn’t have.
It’s just that [...]

They ran out of garden burgers early at Tuesday night’s Beer & Politics forum–which pitted the truth-and-justice screeds of assembly candidates on one end of Gallagher’s Pub against the screams of basketball fans on the other–and late in the evening talk-show host Art Levine ran off with Theo Douglas’ three-quarters-full glass of Widmer Hefeweizen. Who [...]

The City Council approves a bio-diesel study, turns down a bunker fuel tax

It was 12:45 p.m. yesterday, a day which turned out to be all about diesel.
First District Councilwoman Bonnie Lowenthal had 15 minutes before her next meeting and she was hungry, so we went to Smooth’s Bar and Grill–but not to eat.

As City Council members Tonia Reyes Uranga and Bonnie Lowenthal prepare to run for State Assembly, only one thing remains in their way: Prop. 93

BONNIE LOWENTHAL by ALICE RUTHERFORD
Long Beach City Council members Tonia Reyes Uranga and Bonnie Lowenthal are preparing to run against each other for the California state Assembly’s 54th District seat later [...]

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 [...]

Although Long Beach City Councilmember Bonnie Lowenthal has made extensive preparations to run for the California Assembly in 2008, her candidacy ultimately depends upon the result of a February ballot initiative that would loosen term-limit restrictions and allow incumbent Democrat Betty Karnette to run again.
Lowenthal would not challenge Karnette, a fellow Democrat who has represented the 54th Assembly District [...]