I mean, even though she represents perhaps the only locality in Long Beach that tilts old line, she went right along with five of her far more progressive City Council colleagues and voted against the upcoming California gubernatorial recall election to throw Gavin Newsom out of office.

One brave soul, the Fourth District's Daryl Supernaw, was the lone dissenter, while the Seventh District's Roberto Uranga failed to make an appearance and the Fifth District's Stacy Mungo made an appearance only after the voting was consummated.

So why would Ms. Price be in favor of retaining Mr. Newsom, who has incurred the wrath of so many Californians on both sides of the political landscape for his disastrous homeless policies to his ruinous Covid-19 Pandemic business-restaurant lockdown policies to his tragic forest-fire enhancing environmental policies to his dangerous penal system policies in which thousands of inmates already have been liberated prematurely with a lot more on the way as in late April Mr. Newsom announced that 76,000 will be having their sentences drastically reduced?

You would think the latter development would give Ms. Price, who worked 20 years as a Deputy District Attorney in Orange County and is still active in the office, the heebie-jeebies since she knows first-hand about the high recidivism rate of criminals, especially those with lengthy records and violent backgrounds.

So what would possess the Machiavellian Ms. Price to so blithely also string along with her colleagues in approving the 2021 LB budget that included stripping 50 officers from the LB Police Department, paring it down to 760 when it once stood around 1,000?

It's become obvious to me---and a lot of other observers around town---that Ms. Price is taking the long view, and that long view is one day succeeding the Honorable Robert Garcia as mayor.

Mr. Garcia isn't expected to run again unless his supposed good friend, Vice-President Kamala Harris, fails to land him a slightly more prestigious post in the Biden Administration than the bizarre one he's been tendered --- trustee in the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, which on a prestige level is roughly tantamount to being the president of the Rotary Club or secretary treasurer of the Kiwanis.

In a heavily Democratic city, Ms Price apparently doesn't want to offend her progressive constituents in case the mayoral opportunity comes up for her---and thus despite her jurisprudence background doesn't think Mr. Newsom should be unseated for his myriad controversial stands on, among too many others I haven't recited, law and order.

She figures losing a few disgruntled voters in her Third District will be well worth it and easily overcome by those in the other districts in Long Beach that keep electing outrageously incompetent City Council members who collectively are known in this column as the Nine Unworthies.

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