VIDEO: See/Hear LB's Next 4th Dist Councilmember (To Be Decided In April Election) Who'll Have Spending And Policy Voting Power Citywide: Herlinda Chico Or Daryl Supernaw Or Richard Lindemann

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(Feb. 22, 2015, 4:05 p.m.) -- All three candidates seeking to become Long Beach's next 4th district Councilmember -- with voting power on spending priorities and multiple policies citywide -- attended Saturday's (Feb. 21) "meet-greet-and-eat" candidate brunch on Feb. 21, giving the public a one-on-one opportunity to meet, mingle and chat with them. LBREPORT.com took the opportunity to chat with them on VIDEO.

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We posed the same basic questions to all three candidates in a relatively conversational way (although having a camera aimed at you on a tripod is an un-nerving unblinking eye.) We imposed no artificial "stop-watch" time limit on their answers (we're more interested in hearing what candidates consider important.) If an answer triggered a follow-up, we asked, and likewise didn't impose a time limit on the response.

[Note: Our chat with Ms. Chico ran long after our camera had a memory issue (our fault, required us to pause to save data, clear space and reboot) and we asked a number of follow-ups to which she offered explanatory responses. By the time we reached our last question Ms. Chico seemed genuinely to be fighting the clock on attending another event.]

We asked the questions in the backyard of LB's Historic Dairy and Creamery in NLB (thank you, Dan Pressburg) with a group of people some distance behind us (but audible) mingling and eating. Our questions and candidate responses were one on one, out of earshot of the other candidates. We appreciate all three candidates' availability to us and to the public at the event (held at LB's Histroic Dairy and Creamery in NLB, thank you Dan Pressburg.)

Vote-by-mail ballots begin flying in early March. Election day is April 14. It's a no-runoff special election in LB's special election, which stretches from Los Altos to west of the Zaferia. Whoever wins will have co-equal voting power with all other Councilmembers on issues from budget priorities to land use to policy issues affecting residents and businesses in every Council district citywide.