Gerrie Schipske for City Council.

The voters of Long Beach wisely approved a limit of two terms (8 years) for members of the City Council. As a result, in 2006, the voters of the 5th Council District will have the opportunity of selecting a new councilmember. Gerrie Schipske is a candidate for the 5th Council District in 2006. This site will provide information on Gerrie's campaign for City Council. You can contact Gerrie Schipske at gerrie@schipske4council.com.

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Name: Gerrie Schipske
Location: Long Beach, California

Local Roots. Local Values. Gerrie Schipske's grandparents came to Long Beach in the late 1940's. Her parents met at the Pike and married at St. Lucy's Church. They held their wedding reception in Silverado Park. Gerrie was born in 1950 at the Long Beach Naval Hospital. She has worked and lived in Long Beach for 29 years. Her three children attended Long Beach public schools and Long Beach City College. Gerrie has a distinguished career of public service at the city, state and congressional levels. She has served for over 15 years on Long Beach City committees, commissions and boards -- including the Board of Health and Human Services, the Joint Powers Authority for the CSU Headquarters, and the Queensway Bay Committee that guided the development of the Aquarium of the Pacific. In 1992, she was elected to the Long Beach City College Board of Trustees. She has won the nomination of her political party three times for state and federal offices. Gerrie Schipske is the founder of Long Beach Cares... and RxforLongBeach.com.

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Gerrie Schipske for City Council. She's running. For us. For Long Beach.
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Thursday, June 09, 2005

Miss Manners Would Not Approve

Miss Manners would certainly not approve how the Mayor and City Council have been treating the public lately who come to provide in-put on important issues.

Whose idea was it to schedule lengthy hearings on both the expansion of Memorial Medical Center AND the LNG issue on the same night...and to consider other council business as well.

I watched on cable TV the entire spectacle that unfolded last Tuesday night as the Council pushed through on these critical issues.

Really. Someone needs to figure out that working men and women in this City can't take time to come to a Council meeting to speak on a specific issue and then sit through a lengthy, lengthy agenda...also, I know it pains the Mayor and Council to hear this...but when people take time out of their busy, busy lives to come to a Council meeting, then they should be allowed to speak, even if it doesn't fit comfortably into plans to only allow a certain amount to speak from each side of the issue. That's what Democracy is about!

posted by Gerrie Schipske for Council | 3:35 PM