WHAT TH–?? SUPERNAW RETURNS TO GREATER LONG BEACH RADIO TONIGHT
By Greater Long Beach
City Council candidate Daryl Supernaw makes his second appearance of the year on Greater Long Beach Radio with Dave Wielenga tonight–connect to KBEACH.org at 7 p.m.—but he’ll face the same opening question he got three months ago: What the hell just happened?
Back on January 11, Supernaw’s first-ever political campaign—a homemade creation grounded in his lifetime as a resident and activist in Long Beach’s 4th district—had just been badly mangled in a collision with the mean machinery of big politics. He barely knew—or could hardly believe—what hit him.
But today, Supernaw is fresh off a victory in the April 10 primary, qualifying for a June 5
runoff against 4th district incumbent Patrick O’Donnell in a three-way photo finish that required recounts to validate. Supernaw received 1,218 votes (33.46 percent), while O’Donnell had 1,205 votes (33.1 percent) and retired Long Beach police officer John Watkins had 1,166 votes (32.03 percent).
In the program’s second segment, Maureen Neeley of the not-for-profit Long Beach Heritage group and GreaterLongBeach.com contributor/architecture aficionado Theo Douglas will examine the impending demolition of another Long Beach landmark—the Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School.
The distinctive Streamline Moderne structure has been sitting at 1574 Linden Ave. since 1935, when it was constructed according to the design of noted Long Beach architect George Kahrs.
The Long Beach Unified School District intends to completely raze the 77-year-old school and replace it with a group of contemporary buildings funded with $38,700,000 from Measure K bonds.
Greater Long Beach Radio with Dave Wielenga is a co-production of GreaterLongBeach.com and the Internet radio station at Cal State Long Beach, KBEACH.org. It goes live for one hour every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Thereafter, the program can be accessed at GreaterLongBeach.com, whether by podcast or a connection to the KBEACH.org archives.
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Prior to this election, O’Donnell and Supernaw were close friends. When O’Donnell announced his run for California Assembly last year, he asked Supernaw to run for City Council as his replacement. Supernaw told O’Donnell he would do so only if O’Donnell promised to not later change his mind and attempt a write-in election for City Council. O’Donnell promised Supernaw he would not attempt a write-in election for City Council. That was the deciding factor for Supernaw’s decision to run for city council and not have to worry about running against his friend.
Soon after the California Assembly candidates were named, O’Donnell dropped out of the Assembly race when he realized he could not beat Bonnie Lowenthal. Rather than upholding a promise he made to Supernaw, his personal friend, O’Donnell broke his promise and announced he was now running for city council as a write-in.
O’Donnell admits he broke his promise to Supernaw and with it his friendship. O’Donnell chalks it up to politics. Is that the type of person 4th district residents want representing them for another 2-years until O’Donnell again runs for Assembly?
O’Donnell refuses to sign a pledge to NOT run for higher office during the next 4-year city council term if he is elected in June. Both Supernaw and Watkins, O’Donnell’s candidate opponents, agreed to sign the pledge during the 4th district candidate forum. O’Donnell was the only one to refuse.
If O’Donnell doesn’t plan on running for State Assembly in two years, why else would he repeatedly REFUSE to sign a written pledge to do so? O’Donnell is only running for city council again to keep his name in the political hat to run for California Assembly 2-years from now and cost us taxpayers the expense of another 4th District election.
O’Donnell previously announced his run for assembly and collected campaign funds for that election run, but then backed out after realizing he couldn’t win against the other candidates running. When asked at a 4th district candidate forum how much money he had raised in his war chest, O’Donnell admitted he didn’t know. O’Donnell never fails to trumpets how he serves on our city’s budget oversight committee. No wonder our city is in such dire straights financially when O’Donnell doesn’t even know how much money he has raised for his own election. How much more disconnected can a councilman be?
Pity, the Streamline Modern school building is being demolished.
For once I agree with Ruehle. I’m heading to the psychiatrist after this.
Frankly, pledges are stupid. A tax pledge, a will not run pledge, they just prevent a person from adapting to circumstances at the time. And here, what good would it do having O’Donnell sign a pledge not to run? He’d just break it anyway.
But if a man gives another man his word, and goes back on it, what kind of a man is he, anyway? It all goes back to the old saying- at the end of the day, all you’ve got is your word. If you aren’t as good as your word you aren’t good at all. It’s shameful what O’Donnell did to Supernaw here and if he had any integrity left, he’d step aside and allow Supernaw to take office.
Hey O’Donnell- up yours. I’m glad I don’t live in your District. You can’t be trusted. It isn’t just “politics”, it’s about keeping a promise. You’re supposed to be smart enough to foresee all eventualities. You obviously didn’t, and you were willing to sacrifice your friendship with Supernaw because of it. Says a lot about you. You’re shallow, selfish and wholly without remorse about it. Is that what you taught kids in school? Stomp on your friends for your own personal gain? How guys like you sleep at night I have no idea.
One more thing O’Donnell- since we all know you’re eyeing that Assembly seat in two years, for all intents and purposes you’re running for it already. The longer you insist on trying to hang on to your termed out council chair, the more you disappoint voters and ruin your chances. People are just going to look at you like the short timer you are.
Do the right thing- drop out now. Regain your credibility. Keep your word to Supernaw. Otherwise, go ahead, live down to expectations.
I would not have voted for the money if I knew they were going to destroy their Histioric schools.
Supernaw, who raised and spent $3,000 on his grass roots District 4 City Council campaign win as an example of campaigning without political spending.
Moreover, of the $3,000 spent on the Supernaw campaign, half went to the City of LB for filing fees, one-third went for lawn signs, and the $500 left over was used to win the election. To put that in perspective, a single P-T ad on election day for Watkins/Kawasaki (paid for by the Jobs/PAC) went for $4,600.
It sounds like voters in the 4th have a clear choice:
A) a longtime community activist (lifelong 4th district resident?) who seems to be interested only in serving on the City Council, or
B) a longtime councilman (wishing to be an even longer term councilman) who seems to be interested only in maximizing his chances of winning higher office in two years.
Not a resident of the 4th, but this will be interesting to watch.
I would not have voted for the money if I knew they were going to destroy our Histioric schools.
Why would sleazy gordon pay so much for a press-telecageliner ad, when people who would take that trash-sack seriously, with its’ offensive simpleton-level editorials and ads that are set up to look like “news”, are going to vote for slimebags like them anyways?
And how does gordon justify pimping for an absolute zero like delong over kuykendahl, hell delong makes o’donnell look brilliant!
randy has no problem exposing himself for the pinheaded phony he is!
Jay Beeler’s, Editor of the Beachcomber, praised and endorsed John Watkins for the 4th District City Council election and slammed Daryl Supernaw, claiming,
“Daryl Supernaw considers himself to be the “grass roots” candidate. In political terminology this is tantamount to saying that you don’t have any money, much organization, or experience in running for office. It has, historically, been a formula for disaster at the ballot box. While I don’t know him, or don’t know much about him, I really don’t think that he has much of a chance to win this seat.”
When Darlyl Supernaw election win AGAIN proved how out of touch Beeler is in his own Long Beach community, Beeler did not even have the decency to write about the election results. Instead, the coward Beeler distanced himself by assigning new reporter Kirt Ramirez to write about Supernaw’s win.
In case anyone is even looking, Jay Beeler is back hiding under Councilman DeLong’s skirt with cohort Randy Gordon.
Blowhard beeler, so full of himself, should run for office next time around. gordon and his puppets will pimp for him for sure! Will be fun to see how few votes he would get.
Hey jay how are the plastic bag orders doing?