Total Contribs To Pro-Sales-Tax-Hike Committee Top $200,000 As Two More Unions Plus Others We Identify Give These Sums

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(May 20, 2016, 9:45 p.m.) -- Within a little over a week, two regional unions plus some entities and individuals with LB involvements added $40,000 to a total sum we unofficially estimate now exceeds $200,000 for the political committee supporting a Mayor/Council desired sales tax increase (Measure A) to 10% (currently 9% in Signal Hill/Lakewood and 8% in most OC cities) that current and future Councils could spend on any general fund items they wish.

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The lion's share of the $200,000+ given to the [full official name] "Mayor Garcia, Foster & O'Neill Committee to Support Measures A & B to Protect Police & Fire and Repair Infrastructure in Long Beach. Major Funding by Long Beach Police Officers Association PAC and Long Beach Firefighters PAC, Local 372" comes from PACs funded by LB's Police and Firefighter unions as they (and other City employee unions) prepare to negotiate new City contracts after the election.

The most recently disclosed contributions in campaign filings are:

May 15, 2016	Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters Political Action Fund Los Angeles	$20,000
May 15, 2016	United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local Union 112	$3,000
May 17, 2016	Darren McElroy, President, Environmental Construction Group Signal Hill, CA [LBREPORT.com note: Contractor for demolition of old LB courthouse. Source: company website here.]	$5,000
May 17, 2016	The Long Beach Project Owners, LLC Newport Beach, CA 92660 [LBREPORT.com note: The Long Beach Project was among the listed litigation parties that prevailed at the trial court level against CARP [Citizens About Responsible Planning] which challenged the City's EIR for the 8th dist. Riverwalk project.]	$5,000
May 12, 2016	CCE Consulting Group, LLC Hawthorne, CA [LBREPORT.com note: LinkedIn.com lists Erick Verduzco-Vega as a partner in CCE Consulting Group. Mr. Verduzco-Vega was one of Mayor Garcia's Oct. 2014 appointees to the LB Planning Commission.]	$1,000
May 12, 2016	The Gallos, Inc. Long Beach 90802	$1,000
May 11, 2016	Shooshani Fahrshad President Etc. Real Estate Services, Inc West Hollywood, CA [LBREPORT.com note: We found no LB connections to Shooshani Fahrshad (or Fahrshad Shooshani), but a prominent LB figure, Tony Shooshani is listed on Downtown LB Associates website as the owner representative for LB's downtown City Place and serves on DLBA's Board of Directors.]	$5,000

As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, the Committee's campaign filings indicate that in early May it received the following campaign contributions:

$10,000 (May 2) from the Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 11 PAC; $2,500 (May 2) from Jamee Callahan [title for ID] chairman, Metropolitan Stevedore (May 2); and $1,000 (May 6) from Mike Walter (May 6) [title for ID], Exec. Ass't to CSULB President [and former LB Harbor Comm'r.]

Vote by mail ballots began flying May 9. Election Day is June 7.