NY-LI-LONG BEACH COUNCIL: Three council incumbents are running again
Long Beach’s three incumbent City Council members who are up for re-election this year say they plan to seek office again in the fall. James Hodge, former board chairman of the Martin Luther King Center, said he is exploring the possibility of a run.
In an email last week, incumbents Karen McInnis, Tina Posterli and Liz Treston told the Herald they would run as a team. Referring to themselves in the third person, they wrote that in the few years they have been on the council, “they have helped get the city out of the most fiscally stressed municipality in the state by the NYS Comptroller’s office. They advocated and received millions of dollars for needed projects. They want to continue moving Long Beach forward.”
McInnis and Treston were elected to four-year terms in 2019, and Posterli, council President John Bendo and Roy Lester were elected in 2021.
At a council meeting Tuesday night, Hodge said, “Don’t believe what you read in the newspapers, but maybe you should.” He was referring to a posting on the Herald website last weekend reporting that he was in fact running.
Asked for clarification Wednesday morning, Hodge said he was “exploring the possibility” of running, and then added, “I plan on making it to the ballot.”
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