Long Beach Mayor Debate - Suzie Price, Rex Richardson

[@LByogi88]

Thank you for posting. I really wish more Long Beach residents listened to both of them speak at length.

[@Fba_Leo]

I’m a long time Long Beach resident and I respect both candidates and all city officials. I’m a problem solver so when I watch meetings and problems are posed I come up with solutions. When I’m able to make contact with the appropriate city officials, I would love to run them by them.

[@RedHeatedStepChild]

Less than 10% voted. Thats the way Long Beach council loves it.

[@kathleencox3992]

Thank you for having this debate! It is great to be more informed about our choices!

[@gregshea227]

I really enjoyed listening to this debate. Jason Ruiz did a nice job of moderating. His conversational style allowed both candidates the opportunity to answer some tough local issues like homelessness, crime, police staffing and policies, housing, business development, oil production, conflicts of interest and campaign contributions from special interests. Susie Price answered the questions directly and clearly. She showed a deep understanding of the issues and articulated clear strategies to address them. Rex Richardson displayed a real understanding and compassion for his district. He is a solid Councilman with an admirable record of serving Long Beach. We will hear more from him in the future as his understanding deepens and his skills grow. Suzie Price clearly showed she is best qualified to be Mayor of Long Beach.

[@breterpan]

personally, I don’t really want to see a mayor in office who finds it necessary to make so many petty, needless jabs at their opponent. this should have been a very civil discussion with the focus set on articulating their viewpoints and making their stance on prominent issues known and easily digestible for the general public. the petty slights had no place here, and the lack of ability to refrain from them and general poor attitude they gave us a glimpse into do not, in my opinion, reflect a great leader, or anyone who has any business being in a position of power.

[@matthewctorres]

Thank you for sharing this! It's helpful to hear the perspectives of the candidates.

[@1985ashiq]

Is it me or this moderator doesn't understand his job? It's not a conversation between you and Rex. Your opinion doesn't matter here and stop giving answers to Rex because clearly we know who you're voting for. Ask the same question to both instead of rephraseing for Rex for instance hiring more cops question.

[@Mas0niq]

I agree, and the bait lead on the affordable housing. (Edit: yeah maybe we're being too hard on him, crossed some lines though.)

[@Fba_Leo]

Susan knew that the moderator was biased to her that's why she kept calling him by his first name in and endearing tone. "Jason, Jason, Jason" I only still remember his name because of her. This was clearly a 3 on 1 debate.

[@JorgeSantos-ph4ip]

Came here from the LA mayoral debate. Very different 😄

[@carlosvaldez5873]

Come on Rex...answer the questions!!! Suzie ran circles around your over worded confusing double talk. Your solution to most problems is "development!" That huge developer mayoral campaign contribution really has shaped your responses Rex. Rezoning, huge developer campaign contributions, Up Plan, Land Use Element, over 70% of your mayoral campaign contributions made from outside Long Beach...looks like our city is for sale Rex! Residents deserve more than to become an ingredient Rex's political soup. Mayoral candidate Suzie Price is the leader Long Beach needs to move our great cityforward without being beholden to outside developers and politicians like Rex.

[@Fba_Leo]

She didn't run circles around anybody but you Sir. That's why you're confused and not able to identify who the Mayor of Long Beach should truly be. If you really would've been paying attention you would've seen that the moderators where biased in how they dealt with Rex Richardson, cutting him off but allow Karen, I mean Susan to speak as long as she wanted uninterrupted. Get your head out of your ass man!!!!!

[@BruceD1776]

My main concern is my rent, which was just increased 10%. Supply and demand. More supply means not quite so fast increasing rents. I want DEVELOPMENT!!! If neccessary, I want UPZONING!!! I want HIGH DENSITY, MULTI-FAMILY, HIGH RISES, HIGH RISES AND STILL MORE HIGH RISES AND HIGH DENSITY!!! That's the only way to keep rents and home prices affordable. Hopefully, there will be another home price crash like in 2008 or mid 90s. That way more than just upper middle class people will be able to afford a home, even a condo. My main concern about the homeless is that I don't become one of them. If you're a renter or aspiring homeowner, the DEVELOPERS ARE YOUR FRIENDS, they are the ones who will increase the supply of housing, thereby keeping rents and home prices reasonable.

[@tertiary7]

@@BruceD1776 no amount of development will lower your rent. Developers and banks will only finance market rent units.. and government secretly loves the high property taxes. You're being gaslit if u think density will lower rent. Blame runway inflationary monetary policies and foreign investments.

[@BruceD1776]

@t3rt1ary_ No gaslighting, just basic economics - supply and demand. In this inflationary environment, nothing is going to lower rents. Rents never go down. But, with adequate increase in supply, rents won't increase faster than inflation or incomes, and can be kept affordable. ANY increase in housing supply - luxury or "affordable" - will inhibit rent increase across the board because housing is still a fungible (interchangeable) quantity. I wrote about that in a comment above. No one likes increase in density. We all seem to wish we could go back to the '50s. But, the population is increasing and people gotta live somewhere.

[@BruceD1776]

It seems to me that Suzie may be the one more hostile to multi-family housing development. At 34:30, she favors expanding "inclusionary" housing. There's no more certain and effective way to kill multi-family and rental housing development than "inclusionary" housing. "Inclusionary housing" requires developers to include a certain proportion of "affordable", low-income housing in their housing developments. This makes the development less profitable or even unprofitable. So, the developers don't do the project and put their investments elsewhere, or into something other than multi-family residential. The most important thing to keep housing affordable is absolute supply regardless of class level - luxury "high-class" or lower-class "affordable". Indeed, construction of luxury housing may even keep housing more affordable than construction of "affordable" housing, because luxury housing absorbs more monetary demand per unit. Housing is what is known as a "fungible", meaning substituteable, quantity. If luxury housing is constructed, those vacancies need to be filled, so the price is lowered to expand the pool of possible renters to the upper middle tier of renters. That leaves vacancies in the upper middle tier, whose landladies and landlords lower or limit increases in rents to win back luxury tier and draw from middle-tier. That leaves vacancies in middle tier, which causes landlords in the middle tier to lower or limit increases in rent so as to attract back some of the middle tier renters and attract lower tier renters to fill vacancies. That will leave lower tier vacancies, and the lower tier landlords and landladies will have to lower rents or limit rent increases so as to fill or prevent vacancies. So an increase in housing supply in any tier will translate to lower or less fast rising rents for all tiers of housing. So-called "inclusionary housing" is not inclusionary and results in less or no housing development. There needs to be less government barriers to putting in more housing, any housing, high-density housing, high-density luxury housing, affordable high-density low-income housing, all housing, especially high-density because it produces the MOST housing per unit area. If upzoning is necessary, so be it.

[@annborrelli9280]

Parking parking parking!!! Affordable housing does not mean $2000 for a studio apartment

[@KettyCitterio]

Suzie Price sounds like a Mayor should sound. Educated on every subject, and full of realistic ideas. Hope in a fair and clean election, not one run by Unions

[@Fba_Leo]

Being just educated and being educated and having first hand experience is two different things. Susan Price is just "educated" but Rex Richardson is educated and has first hand experience in dealing the residents affected by the issues that are the top priority of Long Beach such as Homelessness and while Susan and her husband purchased their brick and mortar business for themselves, Rex Richardson was building a homeless facility that is now standing and fully operational and is helping more homeless people that were being helped before. When Susan Price and the residents in her district see homeless people they call the police because they don't really genuinely care about them and see them all as criminals. Susan Price isn't fooling anybody but the foolish.

[@KettyCitterio]

@@Fba_Leo as City Counsel, Suzie Price addressed the issues of her constituents, and she did it thoroughly. Rex and Suzie's districts have their specific problems, and they required different approaches. Suzie did an excellent job in her district and if she would have done the same if she was the councilperson for Rex's District. You judging and generalizing how residents handle or see things in CD3 is not just foolish, is pretentious and ignorant. Ask Rex's constituents if they are happy with what he did in their district. That is key.

[@l.b.r7467]

@@Fba_Leo keep dreaming, I live in Rex Richardson District , Suzie is the best option,

[@hifrombob2416]

Price won this hands down!

[@Mas0niq]

Scrap the Queen Mary and off set the cost of all those recycled materials, reuse them to develop something new in the area.

[@BruceD1776]

Tow the Queen Mary way out past the breakwater a few miles where the depth is greater than 400 ft. and sink it. It'll make a great reef for all the sea life. 400 ft down won't interfere with shipping.

[@smiccick]

The idea of a house with no shared walls and a backyard is elitist. How do you hole hosing problems if everyone wants a single family home?

[@BruceD1776]

@Salvatore Miccicke "hole hosing "?

[@BruceD1776]

I think you mean "solve housing".

[@ammilessmiles]

Haha! I like the last question

[@joeschmoe5583]

Suzie actual talks substance, Rex just gives lip speak. And democrats are going to vote for him because they aren't serious.

[@dbrr97]

And the Republicans are going to vote for Suzie?

[@drishthesquish]

But Suzie is a democrat too so why do you think Rex is going to automatically get the vote?

[@dbrr97]

@@drishthesquish she’s registered democrat but she’s a republican. Just like Bobby

[@drishthesquish]

@@dbrr97 whaaaat can you explain?

[@drishthesquish]

@@dbrr97 nvm, just read this article that summed it up pretty well “Even though she’s not a Republican, she’s as close as we’re going to get as far as being pro-police, pro-business and pro- trying to clean up the homeless issue,” said Ben Goldberg, chairperson of the Long Beach Area Republicans.

[@Mas0niq]

@48:00 exactly, why does it have to be a race thing. If you bought a house at 25, 10 years ago, then it seems as though the race issue didn't affect you then. You can't use it now.

[@Fba_Leo]

That’s the question that I want to know from you since you’re asking Rex. Why do white people and the other races of people who think like them have to be Racist? That’s the real question because if they wasn’t racist there wouldn’t be anything to talk about. The only people that doesn’t see the racism are racist themselves. I hope you learned something.

[@Fba_Leo]

Susan Price sounds arrogant and self centered and sounds like an elitist that will not be able to resonate with the diverse population of the residents of the city of Long Beach. Her district is one of the most wealthy and least diverse districts in Long Beach which makes her out of touch with majority of the residents of Long Beach as a whole. Vice Mayor Rex Richardson on the other hand has experience as a councilman in one the most diverse districts in the city. Susan Price said it out of her mouth repeatedly that Long Beach is a "diverse city" and with Long Beach being such a diverse city, Rex Richardson has the most experience with dealing with a diverse demographic of residents and will thus be the better choice for Mayor of The City Of Long Beach.

[@KettyCitterio]

Aquarius, you mis-judge and judge and don't even show your name. Are you Rex? The name is SUZIE, not Susan. SUZIE Price. 'Arrogant?' How about strong and confident? "Self-centered"? She spent all of her career in service to others. Know that women have to fight tooth and nails to get respect from people, especially males. Excuse if she doesn't fit your profile of sweet and cute. It's 2022 not 1950.

[@Fba_Leo]

@@KettyCitterio My comment has nothing to do with the fact that she’s a woman. I’m not one of those male chauvinists that feel like women are not as equally qualified to lead as men. I based my opinion strictly off of what I observed in the debate. I was actually going to vote for Suzie at first but the more I watched her and I examined her past, I feel like she would not represent the interest of me and the people that I care about because she lacks experience with dealing with us. The people that I am taking about do not live in Belmont Shores

[@tertiary7]

It's hard being the smartest person in the room.

[@efraimflores43]

Housing is not the solution for homelessness - Price 🤔 🤣 Susan how about along with non profits, small business owners also step it up and invest in solutions for homelessness?

[@Fba_Leo]

She said that housing would not help the homeless. She should’ve said “housing alone”is not the solution. She didn’t have any real plan to address homelessness whereas The Vice Mayor and future Mayor of Long Beach, Rex Richardson has a plan called HOPE in which he explained.