Los Altos Center Adjacent Neighborhoods LACAN: February 2024

Councilman Daryl Supernaw deserves reelection to a final term

The Los Altos Center Adjacent Neighborhoods enthusiastically endorses our popular and effective District 4 Councilman Daryl Supernaw for reelection.

Councilman Supernaw's thank you to LB Post readers for selecting him as the Top Civil Servant

Councilman Supernaw has proven himself to be an outstanding honest representative for our neighborhoods, District 4, and Long Beach.

His commitments to fostering economic growth, enhancing public safety, working on homeless issues, and his famous focus on constituent services alone would be worthy of a reelecting Supernaw to a final third term.

But there is so much more.

Supernaw fought to hold airlines responsible for regularly violating the Long Beach Airport Noise Ordinance. His efforts also eventually led to the safe closing of loopholes airlines used that financially hurt the airport.

Supernaw fought to bring back funding for restoring Engine 17 at Stearns Park's Firehouse 17 resulting in quicker 911 emergency response times.

Supernaw brought forward an ordinance that was passed to give the LBPD more tools to fight street takeovers.

Supernaw worked to acquire “project vouchers” for the new 76-unit residential building at the corner of PCH and Loma. The $41 million project was built to provide single apartments for previously unhoused, low-income residents. Without the vouchers, the project would not have been feasible.

Supernaw’s office is the only council office that acts as a clearing house for homeless issues in its own district. Supernaw encourages residents to contact his office regarding the Fourth District homeless population to coordinate available services.

After the Animal Service Center was added to District 4, Supernaw successfully proposed an amendment to the 2024 Long Beach City Budget for funds to eliminate the backlog of current and former shelter animals needing spay or neutering. The backlog was eliminated this summer. . Supernaw's office also paid for new industrial-grade washing machines to wash blankets and towels needed in caring for the animals.

To read how Supernaw's opponent is trying to take credit for Supernaw's Animal Shelter support CLICK ON:

Fact-checking Herlinda Chico on the Animal Shelter

After the sacred Indigenous Peoples site of Puvungna at CSULB was added to District 4, Supernaw has proposed and is working to have the city create a Native American Commission. Once instituted, Long Beach will be one of the few municipalities with dedicated Native American representation within a city government.

After the rest of El Dorado Park was added to District 4, Supernaw worked with city staff to jump-start the long-stalled upgrades to the El Dorado Duck Pond. The pond re-opened this spring.

Supernaw addresses local neighborhood concerns with public and private projects ensuring residents' questions are answered and residential input is considered. Examples include Supernaw hosting meetings about the new CSULB dorms on Atherton; Sports Basement taking over the Los Altos Sears: and working with neighborhoods regarding city-proposed street makeovers.

Supernaw’s office is renowned for both its service to residents and its fiscal efficiency. Unlike other council offices, Supernaw does not hire local political party insiders but instead hires competent professionals. With a productive and lean professional staff, Supernaw’s average yearly office budget operation savings is 46%. Those funds are then invested back into District 4 sidewalks, street repairs, and community events.

Committed to full representation and communication, Supernaw’s seasoned professional staff includes the longest-serving council office chief-of-staff. The efficient staff is Long Beach's most competent city council staff.

In addition to his famous weekly newsletter and monthly community meetings, Supernaw is a regular featured guest at neighborhood, HOA, and other community meetings.

Councilman Supernaw’s honesty, approachable demeanor, willingness to listen to and respond to constituents, and his ability to collaborate with colleagues have made him an effective and respected leader.

Yes! Supernaw deserves re-election to a final third term.

From LB4D News:

City of Los Angeles Political Machine attacks Supernaw with negative political mail

Former Los Angeles County labor union leader Ron Herrera has formed a Political Action Committee (PAC) in Long Beach to support Herlinda Chico’s campaign to unseat Fourth District Councilman Daryl Supernaw.

City of Long Beach form 410 (click to enlarge)

A close-up of form 410 that has Ron Herrera as the Principal officer of PAC

Herrera is remembered for his part in the October 2022 Los Angeles City Council Racism Scandal. The scandal became national news. It ultimately led to Herrera's resignation from the presidency of his union as well as the resignation of Los Angeles City Councilmember and City Council President Nury Martinez. Three other Los Angeles City Council members were caught up in the scandal.

The fallout from the scandal brought to light a second Herrera city council scandal. Herrera was involved in a plot to buy the votes of political clubs and non-profits for political endorsements to re-elect Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell.

In September 2024, Herrera turned his attention to Long Beach.

Herrera filed paperwork in Long Beach to form a PAC called “Neighbors for a Safer CD 4 to Support Herlinda Chico 2024”. The Herrera PAC mailed out two political mailers last week to support Chico. The Herrera's mailers targeted two different political demographics in the Fourth District.

Herrera’s PAC has six contributors. The four contributors that contributed $5,000 each all have Los Angeles addresses listed on the campaign paperwork.

In addition to the Los Angeles donors, Long Beach District 7 Councilman Roberto Uranga gave $1,000 to the Herrera PAC. Uranga and his wife are close personal friends of Chico.

Long Beach City College and Long Beach Unified’s connection to Herrera PAC

Cordoba Corporation and JT Construction of Los Angeles both contributed $5,000 each to the Herrera PAC to support Herlinda Chico’s campaign.

Cordoba Corporation's $5,000 contribution to Herrera's OAC (click to enlarge)

What is the connection of Los Angeles engineering company Cordoba Corporation to the Long Beach District 4 City Council race?

The answer is Long Beach City College and its Board Trustee Herlinda Chico. Herlinda Chico was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2020.

According to Cordoba’s website and the Long Beach City College (LBCC) website, Cordoba handles the construction management for LBCC’s two bond measures, Measure E and Measure LB.

LBCC website about Cordoba being the Bond Management Team

Taxpayer Bonds are big business, and this year, the LBCC Trustees placed another almost billion-dollar bond titled Measure AC on the November 2024 ballot.

Chico ran for the Long Beach City College Board after first being defeated by Supernaw in 2015. Since being elected to the LBCC Board, Chico politicized her trustee position on the Board for her political career (see links below).

Despite the backing of both the Long Beach Political Machine and now the Los Angeles Political Machine, Chico has tried to cast herself to voters as “NOT A POLITICIAN” like in this ad:

Los Angeles’ JT Construction also gave $5,000 to the Herrera PAC.

JT Construction's $5,000 contribution to Herrera's PAC (click to enlarge)

What is this Los Angeles company's connection to Long Beach?

According to the Construction Journal, JT Construction has done bond-related work for the Long Beach Unified School District. Current Fifth District Councilwoman Meagan Kerr was a former Long Beach Unified School District Board Member. Kerr and her husband who are close personal friends of Chico have both endorsed and contributed to Chico’s campaign.

Long Beach City College is in Kerr’s District 5 council district.

The Herrera scandals with the Los Angeles City Council

The Herrera Racism Scandal that led to his Los Angeles downfall began with a backroom deal meeting at Herrera’s headquarters. The meeting included powerful LA City Council members and Herrera over controlling the Los Angeles City Council redistricting process.

The Los Angeles scandal became a national story when audio of the meeting was released that included numerous racial and homophobic comments and slurs.

Herrera was forced to resign after the audio was released.

After Herrera’s resignation, his union demanded the resignations of the Los Angeles City Council members involved with Herrera noting the wide range of racist remarks made by the meeting participants:

“Racism in any form has no place in the House of Labor. It is unconscionable that those elected to fight for our communities of color would engage in repulsive and vile anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Asian and anti-Oaxacan remarks that pit our working communities against each other. These sentiments will not be tolerated by our organization or those who we represent .“

An audio of the secret Herrera 2021 meeting was released online and to the Los Angeles Times. During the meeting's discussions, racial and disparaging remarks were made about the black adopted son (at the time 8 years old) of white City Councilman Mike Bonin and his husband Sean Arian.

The meeting hosted by Herrera included Los Angeles City Councilmember and City Council President Nury Martinez and Los Angeles City Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Leon.

Bonin became a topic in the meeting. Herrera, Martinez, and De Leon all make racial comments. The scandal made national headlines and rocked the Los Angeles Political Machine. CNN reported:

"Much of the conversation focused on maps proposed by the city’s redistricting commission and the councilmembers’ frustration with them, as well as the need to “ensure that heavily Latino districts did not lose economic assets” in the once-in-a-decade process, according to the Times.

The councilmembers then discussed Councilmember Mike Bonin, a White man. In clips of the leaked audio posted by the Times, Martinez is heard recounting a conversation and says “Bonin thinks he’s f**king Black.”

According to the Times, Martinez says Bonin appeared with his son on a float in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade and he “handled his young Black son as though he were an accessory.” The boy is 8 years old, according to a Facebook post by his father.

The Times reported that Martinez also said of Bonin’s child, “Parece changuito,” or “He’s like a monkey.”

“They’re raising him like a little White kid,” Martinez said in the audio released by The Times."

"I was like, this kid needs a beatdown. Let me take him around the corner and then I’ll bring him back.”

While the Martinez comments toward Bonin and Arian's son took center stage in the scandal's first reporting, the distraught parents released a statement that included Herrera and De Leon’s statements in the meeting. The statement stated that as parents they are “equally angry and disgusted by the ugly racist comments about our son from Kevin de León and Ron Herrera, who should also resign their posts, and by the tacit acceptance of those remarks from Gil Cedillo.”

Following Herrera’s resignation, Martinez resigned, first as City Council President, then from the City Council.

Cedillo who had just a few months left in office after a June election loss refused to resign.

De Leon also refused to resign causing a firestorm of protests for months at Los Angeles City Council meetings.

A second audio recording of Herrera and former Los Angeles City Council member Mitch O’Farrell and a union staffer surfaced shortly after the racist audio. The second audio revealed a Herrera plot to keep O’Farrell in office by paying off progressive non-profits and local Democratic clubs to endorse O’Farrell’s re-election over his progressive challenger. O'Farrell ended up losing the race.

For more information click on:

· Fact-checking Herlinda Chico on the Long Beach Animal Shelter

· Herlinda Chico campaign mailers attacking Supernaw funded by Los Angeles racist scandal leader Ron Herrera

· Herlinda Chico keeps lying to Long Beach

· Long Beach candidate Herlinda Chico lies to voters again

· Herlinda Chico's real job

· Herlinda Chico out as Long Beach Field Deputy for L.A. Supervisor Hahn’s office

· Long Beach City College Foundation's Hall of Fame political scandal

· Long Beach Political Machine connections to Melahat Rafiei run deep

· Long Beach’s former Animal Services Manager Staycee Dains takes a leave from her Los Angeles Animal Service position after a scathing report

· Supernaw's bid for re-election will be a rerun of the 2015 election

· Long Beach Redistricting Commission’s “independence” is in question with maps drawn by connected political consultant