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 [...]