Ian Patton
Ian Patton ran for election to the Long Beach City Council to represent District 5 in California. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Patton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ian Patton was born in Long Beach, California. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. Patton's career experience includes working in real estate.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: City elections in Long Beach, California (2022)
General election
General election for Long Beach City Council District 5
Megan Kerr defeated Ian Patton in the general election for Long Beach City Council District 5 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Megan Kerr (Nonpartisan) | 54.8 | 11,517 |
 | Ian Patton (Nonpartisan)  | 45.2 | 9,514 | |
| Total votes: 21,031 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Long Beach City Council District 5
Megan Kerr and Ian Patton defeated Jeannine Bedard and Linda Valdez in the primary for Long Beach City Council District 5 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Megan Kerr (Nonpartisan) | 48.5 | 7,211 |
| ✔ | | Ian Patton (Nonpartisan) | 30.8 | 4,575 |
| Jeannine Bedard (Nonpartisan) | 10.6 | 1,580 | ||
 | Linda Valdez (Nonpartisan) | 10.1 | 1,507 | |
| Total votes: 14,873 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Ian is also a lifelong student of politics and public policy, having gotten his start volunteering for our late state senator and assemblywoman Betty Karnette and after college having worked for our late US congressmember in the local district office. Later Ian worked part-time as a consultant, in addition to managing and investing in rental property, before devoting his political skills to pro bono local activism in recent years.
Ian is running to be that too-often missing in action resident advocate, small business advocate, and taxpayer advocate.
As the volunteer executive director and co-founder of the Long Beach Reform Coalition (LBRC), the organization he built and served as a volunteer for the last four years, his running for Council is a natural extension of LBRC’s city hall reform efforts. LBRC’s mission is to build greater City Hall resident responsiveness, transparency, and accountability.- He looks forward to working on an agenda of local resiliency: restoring our public safety (the police force is down from over 1,100 officers to under 750) and emergency 911 resources (the Bixby Knolls fire station and the east side Community Hospital ER have been shuttered due to city mismanagement), tackling the homelessness crisis (up 62% just at the last count) by reforming the dysfunctional and wasteful city Homelessness Bureau, cleaning up our air (by advocating for federal funds to electrify goods movement related to the port), adding to and better maintaining our parks, fixing our street repair backlog, moderating taxation on residents and small businesses (as the leading opponent of our punitive, regressive,
- Ian is: the only small business owner in the 5th District race the only candidate well-known as a leader in the local government reform movement (having written the Long Beach Reform Pledge) a board member of the local nonprofit Riverpark Coalition (fighting for implementation of the LA River Masterplan for park space) a former board member and longtime volunteer with the Historical Society of Long Beach an active member of local service organizations such as Rotary and Kiwanis, as well as environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club and the Torrance Refinery Action Alliance. While the new 5th District, covering most of the city between Spring and Del Amo, from the LA River to the edge of El Dorado Park, is stil
- We need to combat the freeway “Diesel Death Zone”, by ending diesel goods movement emissions, revitalizing our river zones with trees and green space (as the nonprofit, Riverpark Coalition, on whose board Ian serves, strives to do) and by working toward complete electrification of goods movement at/from/to the Port of Long Beach. Recently Ian was one of the successful advocates pushing the Southern California Air Quality Management District to move toward regulating mobile sources of diesel pollution. Ian is strongly supported by the Sierra Club, and is an active member of TRAA, the organization working to ban the storage of highly dangerous, volatile tanks of hydrofluoric acid at nearby refineries.
Ready to Fight Development Threatening to Tear Up Single Family Zoned Neighborhoods under the new state laws (SB9 & SB10)
Ready to Tackle Homelessness with a Real Plan to Spend Dollars Wisely, Save Lives, and Restore Safety & Order: PattonForCouncil.com/Issues
Ready to Clean Up Our Air and Reinvest in Park Infrastructure & Recreational Open Space
Ready to Take On the Special Interests in City Hall Stealing Our Tax Dollars
Ready to Restore Our Police Force and Build Responsible Community Oriented Policing
As the volunteer executive director and co-founder of the Long Beach Reform Coalition (LBRC), the organization he built and served as a volunteer for the last four years, his running for Council is a natural extension of LBRC’s city hall reform efforts. LBRC’s mission is to build greater City Hall resident responsiveness, transparency, and accountability.
He looks forward to working on an agenda of local resiliency:
- restoring our public safety (the police force is down from over 1,100 officers to under 750) and emergency 911 resources (the Bixby Knolls fire station and the east side Community Hospital ER have been shuttered due to city mismanagement),
- tackling the homelessness crisis (up 62% just at the last count) by reforming the dysfunctional and wasteful city Homelessness Bureau,
- cleaning up our air (by advocating for federal funds to electrify goods movement related to the port),
- adding to and better maintaining our parks,
- fixing our street repair backlog,
- moderating taxation on residents and small businesses (as the leading opponent of our punitive, regressive, sky-high city sales tax), and
- demanding the greatest performance possible from our tax dollars in terms of services and capital investment.
Only a reform agenda can achieve these goals, which means the initiation of an outside audit of city hall by a council member with a track record of digging into details, investigating waste, fraud, and abuse, and rooting out the self-dealing that characterizes the current use of our tax dollars.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 14, 2022
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