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5th dist. Campaign Kerfluffle Over Mungo Mailer: (1) Lakewood Village Neighborhood Ass'n President Withdraws His Name, Issues This Statement; (2) Robert Fox (2nd dist. Resident) Denies Endorsing Mungo, Says He Complimented Her For Her LUE Vote And Commended Her For Expressing Her District's Will, Acknowledges Candidate Corliss Lee Brought LUE To His Attention Which Led To Protest/Public Awareness Campaign; Candidate Lee Offers Plainly Worded Response


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(March 21, 2018) -- A campaign mailer by 5th district incumbent Stacy Mungo, which uses a conventional campaign device of listing various names to show community support, has backfired with respect to two high visibility names:

  • (1) Lakewood Village Neighborhood Association President Bruce DeMille issued a statement withdrawing his name from Mungo's campaign mailer...and said he told her this on March 17. His statement (below) urges recipients of Mungo's mailer to ignore his inclusion in the Mungo mailer

  • (2) Robert Fox, the 2nd district resident who revitalized LB's Council of Neighborhood Organizations, led efforts to oppose the LUE, and prepared paperwork to enter the Mayor's race that he declined to file after a deadline-day meeting with Mayor Garcia, denied endorsing incumbent Mungo but acknowledged complimenting Mungo for her LUE vote, didn't deny any of the statements attributed to him in the mailer and said he believes Mungo listened to her constituents, knows her district well and "expressed the will of her people:"

    Mr. Fox also acknowledged that "If it had not been for Corliss [who brought the LUE to his attention], we would not have known of the LUE and been able to make a protest and public awareness campaign." [LBREPORT.com Amnesia File: Ms. Lee contacted CONO after Councilwoman Mungo disparaged Ms. Lee's accurate LUE information at a late April community meeting. LBREPORT.com coverage with audio here. The incident ultimately led Ms. Lee to enter the Council race.]

Candidate Corliss Lee issued a plainly spoken emailed response to Mr. Fox's statement: "Stacy can perform beautifully on stage if you don't know the history of her actions. I'm afraid Mr Fox is ill qualified to give an assessment of Councilwoman Mungo's support for the 5th district."

Former LB Harbor Commissioner / candidate Rich Dines is also battling Mungo in the ELB district. Candidate John Osborn announced at the conclusion of a March 15 LVNA candidate forum that he's dropping out of the race and endorsing Mungo.

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Lakewood Village Neighborhood Ass'n President's statement

Bruce DeMille, President of the Lakewood Village Neighborhood Ass'n, sent the mass-emailing below earlier today (March 21). LBREPORT.com invited comment(s) from Councilwoman Mungo (via Facebook message and personal email) with no response received as of 5:30 p.m.

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[LNVA Pres. DeMille statement] From the very beginning of this campaign, I notified all four Candidates for Council District 5 that I would not endorse any Candidate.

As a 501c3 Non Profit Corporation, Lakewood Village Neighborhood Association (LVNA) cannot make any political endorsement of any Candidate. Individual LVNA Board members are allowed to make personal endorsements if they chose to do so. There was an error made, whereby my name was included as giving Stacy Mungo my endorsement. I have since notified Stacy Mungo (March 17, 2018 12:23pm) that my name and my affiliation to LVNA are not to be used in any of her campaign literature. In the next few days you may see campaign literature indicating that I have endorsed Stacy Mungo. Please disregard any reference to my endorsement of Stacy Mungo.

I do encourage all residents of Council District 5 to come out and vote on Tuesday, April 10. I also encourage residents to do their own assessment of the Candidates, and do their own due diligence in selecting the very best candidate to do the job for the 5th District in Long Beach.

Robert Fox emailed statement to candidate Corliss Lee

[Mr. Fox responding to Ms. Lee email asking if Fox had endorsed Mungo.] No I did not. I complimented her on the Land Use Element and sent her a letter of appreciation for listening to her people. We had a long discussion, and she certainly wants my endorsement, but I told her I would have to wait. I told her about giving you $ 400.00 at your kick off party. She needed to know that. You are a friend, and I didn't want to alienate you. I do think she has done well to listen to people, and make the votes she has made as a consequence. I am waiting for April 10th.

In an emailed statement responding to an inquiry from LBREPORT.com, Mr. Fox said "I do not live in the 5th District, and do not have a wealth of information about the past, but Stacy Mungo has always treated me with respect and kindness. I therefore will never say anything negative about her." Mr. Fox said "I find both Corliss and Stacy listened to the 5th District. If it had not been for Corliss, we would not have known of the LUE and been able to make a protest and public awareness campaign. For that I am grateful, and cannot say anything against her. Once the public became "involved" Stacy "came up to the plate' in regards to the issue."

Corliss Lee statement

Stacy can perform beautifully on stage if you don't know the history of her actions. I'm afraid Mr Fox is ill qualified to give an assessment of Councilwoman Mungo's support for the 5th district. She has failed repeatedly to gather input and find out what her constituents want as illustrated with bollards, renaming the library, the international airport [prior to "receive and file" vote] and lastly the land use element (LUE) where under threat of losing the election she made the magnanimous gesture of removing density from the 5th. Her list of failures is lengthy. She sits on the Council's State Legislation Committee which failed to meet from mid-January through mid-September while the state legislature was in session, and failed to oppose SB35, which damaged local control on land use housing decisions by failing to oppose this neighborhood-unfriendly bill as it advanced to passage in Sacramento.

We can't afford another 4 years of Stacy Mungo at the helm and that is why I am running for Council.

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Meanwhile, on March 19, Councilwoman Mungo rolled out the endorsement of Mayor Robert Garcia. "Stacy has used her budget experience and steady hand on the City's finances to lead the charge on economic development, making Long Beach more business friendly and supporting job creation," said Garcia in a Mungo campaign release. "Stacy knows how to collaborate to get things done."

Councilwoman Mungo called Garcia "an inspiring leader for our City and Council," adding that "none of us agree on everything at all times" but "our diverse group is hyper-focused on making Long Beach the best that it can be." [Garcia championed, and Mungo voted to put on the ballot, the June 2016 Measure A "blank check" sales tax increase that have LB the highest sales tax rate in CA [tied with only a few other cities] and failed passage in nearly all 5th district precincts.)

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