These Persons/Entities Gave Money To Elect Cindy Allen In CD2 In Last Quarter Of 2020 ...And Some Gave Sums After She Was Elected; Her Campaign Reports Spending $240,000+ In 2020 To Put Her On Council

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Did you know that the City of Long Beach plans to build a giant aquatics center on the beach in Belmont Shore?

The Belmont Beach Aquatics Center, with 2 Olympic-size pools and a platform diving pool, will cost $82 million and was approved in January 2020 by Long Beach City Council. The project must now get permits from the California Coastal Commission because the project site is in the coastal zone.

The Coastal Commission is concerned that Long Beach residents from under-served communities
were not adequately consulted and considered during the planning and approval of this pool project.

THEY WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

HOW: We urge you, and your friends and neighbors, to send your email comments to the California Coastal Commission by 02/04/21. Send it to:dani.ziff@coastal.ca.gov

Subject Line: Public Comment on 02/04/21 - Agenda Item Th14a - Application No. 5-18-0788

WHEN: Write to them by 2/4/21! The public hearing date is Thursday, February 11th (9am to 7pm) and will be conducted electronically via ZOOM.

WHAT: Please ask them to stop this project on the beach, and to consult Long Beach residents all over the city to build it in a neighborhood that needs a community, public pool.

We’re a group of residents opposed to the project because of future sea-level rise (the beach site is expected to flood in 30-50 years), the cost ($82 million, from Tidelands Funds) and the fact that there’s already an existing outdoor pool at this site – installed 5 years ago when the old Belmont Pool was demolished in 2015.

But only you can tell the Coastal Commission that there are places in Long Beach with a greater need for recreation and sports facilities! The entire City of Long Beach has only 3 public pools Long Beach needs more community pools and this pool should be built in a neighborhood where more Long Beach residents can easily reach it to enjoy the benefits of swimming and recreation.

Please send your comments by 02/4/21 to the Coastal Commission at: dani.ziff@coastal.ca.gov
Subject Line: Public Comment on 2/4/21-Agenda Item Th14a - Application No. 5-18-0788
Paid for by Long Beach residents who believe there’s a better place in Long Beach for this public pool.
Contact us: ABetterPlaceForAPool@gmail.com

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These Persons/Entities Gave Money To Elect Cindy Allen In CD2 In Last Quarter Of 2020 ...And Some Gave Sums After She Was Elected; Her Campaign Reports Spending $240,000+ In 2020 To Put Her On Council

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(Feb. 2, 2021, 10:50 a.m.) -- LBREPORT.com reports below salient individuals and entities who contributed sums in the run-up to the November 3, 2020 election that put Cindy Allen on the Long Beach City Council (CD 2.)

Ms. Allen's campaign reports it spent $240,394 from Jan 1-Dec. 31, 2020 to elect her. That sum doesn't include "independent committee" spending that sought to elect her.

Based on state filing deadlines, some of the information didn't become public until days before the election and in one case shows sums contributed after the election.

In LBREPORT.com's opinion, the contributions are significant beyond their near quarter million total. They came despite issues that arose during the campaign on serious matters. Regarding her voter registration, Ms. Allen said she's lived in downtown Long Beach for years, denied living in OC, and shrugged responsive responses to reporters who pursued follow-up questions. On October 5, 2020, candidate Allen walked out of a Zoomed campaign forum when asked about the matter. In Oct 2019, days before her candidacy announcement, Ms. Allen cited the sale of her ETA Advertising (a firm with at least one sizable City Hall contract) to a buyer revealed in early 2020 as bogus in reporting by The Beachcomber). Regarding a July 2020 sale of ETA to another buyer, a stock purchase agreement (not publicly known until attached to a subsequent civil lawsuit by the new buyer) indicated Ms. Allen sought to continue to receive for three years 10% of net revenue "actually earned by the company" or from "future clients of the company" if Allen "meaningfully participates in securing the Net revenue of the Company."

In our opinion. those were and are issues deserving serious responses from anyone seeking elective office in Long Beach. The contributors to Ms. Allen's campaign apparently weren't dissuaded by these matters.

Ms..Allen, endorsed by LB's police and firefighter union PACs, Mayor Robert Garcia, multiple LB-area electeds, City Hall lobbyists, business interests and various labor unions, went on to outpoll Reform Ticket candidate Robert Fox by 1,520 votes (53.56% to 46.44%.)

The individuals/entities listed below are active or familiar in LB civic affairs. For a complete list of campaign contribution see the Allen campaign's FPPC forms on the City Clerk's website. Source for data below = CIndy Allen for City Council 2020 campaign finance reports for periods 9/20-10/17, 10/18-10/28, 10/29-12/31/2020.

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