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(May 6, 2019, 11:15 p.m.) -- As flashed earlier today (May 6) on LBREPORT.com's Facebook platform, 5th district Councilwoman Stacy Mungo Flanigan withdrew her application for consideration for one of 14 positions on a state panel empowered to draw election district lines for all CA Assembly, state Senate and congressional districts statewide.
Today's announcement was made an attorney for the CA Auditor's office (the agency conducting this portion of the applicant selection process) at the start of a May 6, 9:30 a.m. meeting of the Applicant Review Panel tasked with eliminating half of 120 finalists and advance the remainder to state legislators for possible elimination prior to a random draw. Roughly half a dozen of the 120 applicants withdrew their applications and Mungo Flanigan, who filed her application for the position on June 14, 2029 (less than a year into her second Council term) was among those withdrawing. .. LBREPORT.com made an immediate Public Records Act request to the state Auditor's Office for Mungo Flanigan's withdrawal statement (so we could report the "why" and "when" of her action.) We received records indicating that on May 4 at 6:57 p.m., the CA Auditor's office sent Mungo Flanigan an email describing the following timeline: On May 4, 2020 at 10:34 p.m., Mungo Flanigan emailed the CA Auditor's office: I have enjoyed participating in the 2020 California Redistricting Commission process. In conversations with Auditor staff I discussed the possibility of flying home each week for my City Council meeting. In light of your council’s recent guidance that they would request I step down from my non-partisan council seat, I must respectfully withdraw from the process. If Mungo Flanigan hadn't withdrawn and she had ultimately been chosen for the Redistricting Commission, she would have had to give up her a 5th district Council seat, triggering a special (no runoff) 5th district election. Among speculated candidates: [Scroll down for further.]
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By withdrawing her application, Council incumbent Mungo Flanigan is now free to seek a Council third term in 2002 or pursue some other elective office or do something else.
Although she's no longer in consideration for the state position, future LB political fallout may now follow from her actions. After quietly submitting her initial application on June 14, 2019 (less than a year into her second term of office and on October 20, 2019, Mungo Flanigan submitted additional written materials that included responses to four questions (below.) Her self-description of her record statements may provide campaign fodder for future challengers to her (if she seeks re-election in 2022) or to candidates endorsed by her.
[State Auditor website text] Part 1: Essay Questions: The response to each of the following essay questions is limited to no more than 3200 characters including spaces (approximately 500 words). The response fields below will allow you to cut and paste text from any word processing program such as Microsoft Word.
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