In responding to a resident (who noted on Oct. 10 that the LB Business Journal is now on-record against BBB), Councilwoman Price commented on her Facebook page:

"Yep. I'm voting against it too. The write-in option is a fine enough option. If the residents are satisfied with their representative and if that representative wants to run a third term, they can do so by write-in just like our amazing Mayor O'Neill did."

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At about dawn Oct 12, LBREPORT.com emailed Councilwomamn Price to confirm her comments, and she swiftly replied that she stands by her statement and added, "I've repeated it many times so it's not a new position for me."

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On August 7, 2018, Councilwoman Price prefaced her votes (joining all other Councilmembers in putting Measures AAA-DDD on the ballot) by stating:

[Aug 7] I have shared with both the City Auditor and Mayor in informal discussions with them that I am a huge proponent of term limits. I wrote my law review article that's published when I was in law school on the topic of term limits. But for term limits, a PTA mom like me who works full time, I do have a full-time job that I love, would never have had the opportunity to run for public office and actually win, because I had the opportunity to not run against an incumbent...

I remain conflicted about it. I will say both the Mayor and the City Auditor have presented some excellent points that I didn't think about and Councilman Austin just raised an excellent point about consistency with the region. I did not know really what the other term limits were in other regions, cities immediately around us. I look forward to having that discussion with the residents. I do believe that this is something as many of the speakers said, the residents should have the opportunity to weigh-in on and I look forward to having those discussions over the course of the next few months as we talk about the pros and the cons and where we land will be the will of the voters.

At the Aug. 7 Council session (at which nearly all public speakers spoke against the proposed measures), some other Councilmembers -- notably Councilmembers Supernaw and Uranga -- also accompanied their Aug. 7 "yes" votes by indicating they were comfortable having the voters decide.

LB's City Clerk previously indicated that the cost of putting each measure on a specially called citywide November election carries an estimated incremental election cost of $45,000 (with a $470,000 cost for putting the first measure on the ballot.) One the November ballot measures is a petition-initiated measure (Measure W) affecting hotel workers, which the Council chose to put on the ballot rather than enact outright.

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Mayor Garcia and Auditor Doud have launched a campaign for Measures AAA-DDD using the same Garcia-operated political committee that he used to support the 2016 Measure A sales tax increase and 2018 Measure M utility transfer. As Sept. 30, the committee reported nearly $60,000 cash in hand with roughly $20,000 in debts from contributors reported by LBREPORT.com here. Its first mailer used the same photo of Mayors Foster, O'Neill and Garcia used in previous campaigns, calling now-proposed Measures AAA-DDD "good government" measures.

City management has also hired a firm at a cost of nearly $100,000 in public money to separately mail what the City calls "informational" materials to voters regarding AAA-DDD, and has also indicated the City will include an "informational" material in city utility bills. LBREPORT.com coverage here.

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The Council's Aug 7 voted action sparked creation of a new grassroots citywide political action committee - the Long Beach Reform Coalition PAC -- whose first target is the defeat of Measure BBB (term limits change.) In its first month, the LB Reform Coalition PAC collected over $20,000 in contributions and as of late September reported roughly $12,000 in hand (LBREPORT.com coverage here.).

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