S IGNA L T R IBU N E Serving Bixby Knolls, California Heights, Los Cerritos, Wrigley and Signal Hill VOL. XXXVIII NO. 24
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June 10, 2016
Local Hillary supporters have their day in the sun A day after her Long Beach visit, Clinton becomes the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Cory Bilicko Managing Editor
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nduring mid-afternoon June sunshine, standing on a sidewalk with no nearby trees for shade and fully aware that the wait in line– with about 200 people ahead of her– would be at least three more hours, Long Beach banker Diana Fisk wasn’t complaining. With sunscreen in her purse and bottled water handy, she was still in her work attire, but her grayplaid, sleeveless sheath dress was now adorned with a “Hillary for President 2008” button. It was just minutes after 2:00 on Monday, and the line of people eager to get a glimpse of the woman who would possibly be the nation’s first female commander-in-chief, on the day before the California primary, was fast growing. “She’s always been for the people,” Fisk said. “I’m 58. I’ve seen her through the decades. She’s fabulous. She’s always wanted to help us all, and she’s brilliant. She’s got the full package, and what she can do for us, others can’t.” Fisk’s support for Hillary Clinton, however, surpasses just punching the right holes through ballot cards in June and November, and standing in queue for hours to hear her speak in person. Fisk said she thinks about Clinton every day and ponders ways she can emulate her.
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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses a crowd of supporters at Long Beach City College during a rally Monday, the day before the California primary.
However, when pressed for her thoughts on a Clinton-Sanders ticket for the general election, Fisk’s enthusiasm waned. “We’re not a socialist country,” she said. “We can’t lean all the way to the left. We have to work with everyone, and that’s where we are in America... it would be good if Sanders could be more cooperative, but I don’t think he can.”
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alking nearby were some attendees who would quite likely disagree with Fisk on that position. About a dozen sup-
porters of Bernie Sanders, the Vermont U.S. senator and other Democratic presidential hopeful, quietly carried handmade signs that read “Humanity over money” and “A vote for Bernie is a vote for peace” as they sauntered past those in line. Sanders, who has raised impressive amounts of money by asking such supporters– many of whom weren’t old enough to vote in the last presidential election– for small donations to his campaign website, has shunned Super see CLINTON page 6
Hundreds of people wait in line Monday afternoon to be admitted into the Hall of Champions Gym at Long Beach City College for a Hillary Clinton rally.
Expensive campaign for Measures A and B gets nod from LB voters Critics of the sales-tax measure vow to keep fighting City Hall. CJ Dablo Staff Writer
While the nation was closely following the presidential races during the June 7 primary, Long Beach
Mayor Robert Garcia and his supporters enjoyed an easy win for the two sales-tax measures he has been actively promoting the last few months. Voters in Long Beach have shown strong favor toward Measure A and Measure B, both of which commanded enough votes to pass on Election Night. According to the latest election tally from the LA County Regis-
trar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office, Measure A captured 37,075 votes, or 59.5 percent, and Measure B won 35,399 or 57.37 percent. Each measure needs only 50 percent plus one vote to pass. “It’s a huge win for the city of Long Beach,” Garcia said in a phone interview Wednesday afternoon, “and it’s a huge win, I think, for everybody, for all the neighborhoods.”
Garcia had thrown his support behind both measures in order to make a dent in the infrastructure costs in Long Beach– which have been estimated to be $2.8 billion over the next 10 years. The new tax revenue is expected to raise an additional $48 million every year and will pay for infrastructure costs, 9-1-1 services and police and fire staffing, according to the ballot measure.
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Measure A is better known on the ballot as the Transactions-and-UseTax measure. The ballot language specifies that the tax increase will only last for 10 years. When the measure becomes effective, the tax will be raised by 1 percent for the first six years then drop to one-half of a percent for the next four years. see ELECTION page 11