Special Interest Funded vs. Grassroots
Here’s the BIG MONEY from outside Long Beach funding a fake door knocking campaign, folks pretending to be your neighbors asking you to vote for Megan Kerr:
And here are the hundreds of actual community members supporting Tara: Community Endorsements
911 First Responders Pleading for Support in Long Beach
“Long Beach Fire Department Faces Shortage of Rescue Units Amid Rising 911 Calls”, Long Beach Local News
“Long Beach ambulance crews say they’re overwhelmed by 911 calls”, Long Beach Post
On Councilmember Kerr’s Claimed Advocacy for the Riverpark
During a multi-hour City Council hearing—on the Riverpark Coalition’s appeal of the horrendous storage facility project, set to destroy the LA River Masterplan’s planned major western Long Beach park at 3701 Pacific Place—Councilmember Kerr spoke for a sum total of about 90 seconds.
She knew the vote would be approved without any other dissent (like so many other big developer projects in Long Beach) and thus had a free pass from the City Machine to cast a lone “No” vote. This was an insult to the community because it was such a transparent fraud.
Kerr spent most of the 90 seconds during which she (quite nervously) spoke thanking city staff.
She never made a single attempt to advocate for her district or against the developer’s project set to destroy the potential for east/west park equity in her district (which spans the breadth of the city, from the LA River to the San Gabriel River).
Eastern Long Beach has nearly 17 acres of park space for every 1 acre to the west, one of many facts the local nonprofit Riverpark Coalition has worked tirelessly to disseminate to try and forestall this disastrous project.
Kerr could have lobbied her colleagues and invoked the longstanding, if informal, rule that no council member will impose a project in another councilmember’s district.
She could have made an impassioned speech before the final vote.
Instead she did nothing and engaged in a classic city council CYA maneuver. The community didn’t buy it.
- Minutes of the Aug. 12, 2025 City Council meeting (the Riverpark was Item 25): here.
- Video of the Aug. 12, 2025 City Council meeting: here.
The beginning and ending of Councilmember Kerr’s approximately 90 seconds of throwaway remarks:
