Long Beach NAACP: The monthly meeting of the Long Beach chapter of the NAACP featuring guest speaker Congresswoman Laura Richardson. She’ll probably be in her seat for life, but see her now before she gets too entrenched in Washington. 3pm.
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Tues | Aug 21 Long Beach holds a special election—“special election” being another way of saying, “What, there’s an election?”—and chooses Laura Richardson to represent the 37th District in Congress. Richardson wins with 67 percent of the vote, which sounds like a lot until you consider that only 8 percent of eligible voters actually voted, [...]

Tues | Jun 26 With just a tick over 11,000 votes, Assemblywoman Laura Richardson wins the right to be the Democratic candidate in the upcoming runoff for the 37th Congressional District seat. In an election that saw just 11 percent voter turnout, Richardson wins in a field of 13 Democrats and four Republicans, along with [...]

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