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The first filing deadline for the June 2022 Long Beach primary elections passed over the weekend and the early financial disclosure documents revealed by the City Clerk’s office Monday show several incumbents running unchallenged and a wide-open mayor’s race.
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Five of the city’s nine City Council districts are up for reelection in 2022 in addition to the mayor’s office and other citywide offices like city prosecutor and city auditor. Here are what the initial fundraising reports show:
1st District
The 1st district includes parts of Downtown and the Port of Long Beach and is currently represented by Councilwoman Mary Zendejas. Zendejas won a special election in 2019 after the seat was vacated by Lena Gonzalez when she won a special election for a State Senate seat.
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Councilman Roberto Uranga, who also serves on the Coastal Commission, signed onto an appeal late last month challenging some of the aspects of the proposed hotel, including how it affects pedestrian access to the coast, the cost to stay at the hotel and how the hotel’s valet parking would impact access to a public park.
The appeal was also signed by Coastal Commission Chair Steve Padilla.
Celina Luna, Uranga’s chief of staff, originally declined to comment on the appeal because it was still active and said that the appeal could be heard as soon as May. A few hours later, a Coastal Commission spokesperson confirmed the appeal had been pulled.
The City Council on Tuesday adjourned its Tuesday meeting in honor of a man who openly battled with the city for years in court, alleging his firing as an investigator for the commission that oversees police was in retaliation for speaking out against “pro-police bias.”
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Councilman Roberto Uranga requested the meeting be closed in honor of two residents, and one of them was Tomas Gonzales, 74, who died Tuesday after a years-long battle with cancer.
Gonzales was an investigator for the city’s Citizens Police Complaint Commission. He was fired in 2006 and filed a lawsuit alleging retaliation in 2009. He settled in July 2019 for a sum of $775,000.