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Despite being outspent 3-to-1 in
the April 11th primary election by
termed-out incumbent, Jackie Kell,
Gerrie Schipske won the top spot
on the ballot by winning with 2,089
votes.

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 council member.
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.

Gerrie Believes in
Putting Basics First.

Putting basics for neighborhoods
before big-ticket spending.
We need a big vision for the little
things. Long Beach has done the
big-spending projects to attract
corporations and tourists. Now we
need to take better care of the
people who are already here.
Gerrie will focus on the basics.
Police. Fire. Streets. Parks. Code
enforcement. Libraries. She’s the
right Council member to fix the
potholes, improve our parks,
reopen our libraries, clean up our
neighborhoods and hire enough
police to keep our neighborhoods
safe.

Gerrie is a strong
leader who gets
things done.

Gerrie was the coalition builder
who brought the Police
Department and the community
together to strengthen how the
crimes of sexual assault and
domestic violence are handled.
She founded the Long Beach
Police Department's Women's
Advisory Committee. She raised
$40,000 to save senior health care
services and launched a non-profit
organization called Long Beach
Cares and a website called
RXforLongBeach.org that helps
residents obtain free medicine.
She set up and ran the Community
Baby Shower to help public health
nurses encourage low income
women to complete critical pre-
natal classes.

Gerrie is a fiscal
watchdog who will
protect our resources.

Gerrie will work to cut wasteful
spending on frills and luxuries to
pay for more police and to restore
our libraries…without raising
taxes. She will be a tough budget
hawk who does her homework,
pores over the budget line by line,
and stands up against excessive
red tape and bureaucratic
spending. She’ll work to cut
expensive consultant studies and
to reduce the City’s debt and use
the savings for our priority…a safer
Long Beach.