Long Beach makes up 60.9% of the registered voters in the 54th Assembly District and along with Signal Hill and Avalon the percentage goes up to 63.7%.

Your Long Beach Candidates (one from Signal Hill.) on June 3rd:

Republican Central Committee: (You can vote for up to 7, but please only vote for these 5)

ROBERT ACHERMAN

ELISSA M. JACKSON

DAVINA M. KEISER

KEVIN PATRICK KUNKLE

NANCY JEAN SCIORTINO

Republican State Assembly Candidate:

MICHAEL A. JACKSON

Currently the local Republican Party Central Committee has 4 out of the 11 members from the Long Beach Area for a 36.3% representation, well under the registered voter percentage of 63.7%. If all 6 of the above candidates win in June, the Long Beach Area would be represented by 6 of the 11 members or 54.5%, much closer to the actual voting percentage and a very slight majority.

Why is this important? In recent years the membership has been skewed towards Palos Verdes Peninsula (PVP) or like their residents like to say "The Hill". This has resulted in not enough attention being paid to Long Beach, resulting in having only one City Council member being registered a Republican in Long Beach and none in Signal Hill.

With the team of Long, Sciortino, Jackson, Jackson, and supporters we did get close to electing Nancy Long in 2007. We won on election night, but after some questionable provisional ballots and absentee ballots turned in at the poles, we came up short by just one vote. One vote does count.

Also, in 2006 I won almost every precinct in PVP and had a respectable 39.2% of the vote against an incumbent with being outspent 10 to 1. To put that in perspective, the 2000 Republican Nominee from the Peninsula area spent 1 Million Dollars and his percentage was 38.8%. Currently PVP has 6 of 11 representation or 54.5% on the Republican Party Central Committee, which is quite on overrepresentation for PVP which makes up only 18.8% of the registration.