Between January 28 and February 4, 2020, the "Ethical Leadership PAC, supporting Al Austin and Dee Andrews for City Council 2020" received the sums below from the following sources:

• Long Beach Hotel Properties, LLC: $15,000 (Jan. 28)
• Long Beach Lifeguard Ass'n: $5,000 (Jan. 28)
• John Molina: $7,500 (Jan. 29)
• California Apartment Ass'n Independent Expenditure Committee: $5,000 (Feb. 4)
• Metropolitan Stevedore Company: $5,000 (Feb. 4)
• Signal Hill Petroleum: $5,000 (Feb. 4)

These sums add to $14,500 in contributions (previously reported by LBREPORT.com) from the following sources:

• BNSF Railway Co: $3,500 (Dec. 28)
• Edison Int'l and Affiliated Companies: $7,500 (Dec. 28)
• AES: $2,500 (Jan. 7)
• Long Beach Collective Ass'n: $1,000 (Jan. 22)

Council incumbents Andrews and Austin cast Sept. 19, 2017 votes against Council enactment of "Claudia's Law," a hotel-worker protective ordinance that would have assisted labor efforts to organize unrepresented LB hotel workers. The measure was opposed by LB hotel industry/hospitality interests, narrowly failed on a 4-5 vote (Yes: Gonzalez, Pearce, Uranga, Richardson; No: Price, Supernaw, Mungo, Andrews, Austin)

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As separately reported by LRBEPORT.com, two independent campaigns funded by organized labor have surfaced supporting challengers to the two incumbents in the 6th and 8th districts.

In the 8th Council district, a "Committee on Behalf of Working Families To Support Tunua Thrash-Ntuk For Council," Sponsored By Labor Organizations," has been funded to date with $125,000 in three contributions: $50,000 from "United Food and Commercial Workers Active Ballot Club (California)" based in Washington, D.C. and $25,000 from "Dignity California SEIU Local 2015 PAC (based in Sacramento.) and $50,000 from UniteHere! Local 11. Eighth district Council incumbent Al Austin, seeking a third term, faces challenges from Ms. Thrash-Ntuk as well as Reform Ticket candidate Juan Ovalle.

In the 6th district, four unons (Dignity SEIU, IBEW Local 11, Sheet Metal Air, Rail Transportation Workers and UniteHere!) gave a total of $277,500 to the LA Couhty Federation of Labor from which the Federation allocated an estimated $40,000 in an independent campaign to elect Suely Saro.

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Vote by mail ballots began flying Feb. 3. If no candidate receives 50%+1 in the March 5, 2020 race, the top two finishers proceed to a November 2020 runoff.

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