Kailee Caruso
Kailee Caruso ran for election to the Long Beach City Council to represent District 3 in California. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Caruso completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kailee Caruso earned a bachelor's degree from California State University, Long Beach in 2005 and a graduate degree from California State University, Long Beach in 2019.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: City elections in Long Beach, California (2022)
General election
General election for Long Beach City Council District 3
Kristina Duggan defeated Kailee Caruso in the general election for Long Beach City Council District 3 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kristina Duggan (Nonpartisan)  | 55.7 | 10,798 |
 | Kailee Caruso (Nonpartisan) | 44.3 | 8,596 | |
| Total votes: 19,394 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Long Beach City Council District 3
The following candidates ran in the primary for Long Beach City Council District 3 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kristina Duggan (Nonpartisan) | 22.4 | 3,051 |
| ✔ | | Kailee Caruso (Nonpartisan) | 20.4 | 2,773 |
| Nima J. Novin (Nonpartisan) | 19.7 | 2,686 | ||
| Greg Magnuson (Nonpartisan) | 16.5 | 2,249 | ||
| Mark Guillen (Nonpartisan) | 12.2 | 1,665 | ||
| Deborah Castro (Nonpartisan) | 8.8 | 1,196 | ||
| Total votes: 13,620 | |||
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Endorsements
To view Caruso's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kailee Caruso completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Caruso's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My experience building bridges, engaging stakeholders and advancing data-driven solutions to real-world problems has prepared me well. Growing up in a coastal city, I understand the value of protecting the health, access and enjoyment of our coastal resources. As a mother of three sons who has worked as a nonprofit program administrator, I’m ready to tackle our biggest challenges, protect the integrity of our neighborhoods and build a more sustainable future for all our residents and businesses.
I value transparency, accountability and fiscal responsibility and pledge to work with all stakeholders in a manner that is open, equitable and accessible. Working together, we can build a brighter future for everyone. Thank you for your consideration — and your vote.
In Community,
Kailee Caruso https://www.kaileecaruso.com/
- Homelessness: Kailee has a decade of experience providing hands-on assistance to folks experiencing housing insecurity, mental health challenges and substance dependancy. She is committed to a data-driven approach to improve short-term outcomes by providing resources to generate immediate safety, while working with the non-profit sector to develop long-term policy that would be preventative. This will include investing in project home/room key, a consistent REACH team in District 3 to build relationships and ensure day to day safety, better data collection practices to determine what services and resources are working, and greater transparency regarding where homelessness resources are being spent.
- Public Safety: Kailee is Pro-Public Safety. The primary function of government is to keep residents safe. Kailee believes in fostering a culture of community safety which prioritizes neighborhood safety and includes traffic safety, housing, businesses, education, jobs, and climate resiliency while not overextending our police department and firefighters so they can respond quickly to emergencies. Our community is experiencing a gap with recruitment and retention for police, firefighters, paramedics, teachers, healthcare workers, and 911 emergency dispatchers, with increased overtime, burnout and exhaustion. We need a leader who can ensure immediate support. Kailee would expand the public safety framework to include more social workers to de
- Small Business Recovery: Small businesses are the backbone of the 3rd District, and many are still struggling through the effects of the pandemic. Kailee will bring small business owners to the table to name the barriers that are impacting them – whether it is high rent, public safety concerns, the permitting process, or other red tape – and ensure that city policy is directed toward the solutions that businesses actually need. Kailee is interested in working with local entrepreneurs to not only set up shop, but set down roots, here in District 3 and Long Beach, where they are personally invested in our collective economic success. Kailee will work with the city and business owners to ensure that Covid-19 relief funds are actually getting
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 9, 2022
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