Final Explanation for Hotel Discount?
Credit Press-Telegram reporters John Canalis and Karen Robes-Meeks for breaking the story that Long Beach’s most-powerful development official—Craig Beck heads both the city’s Development Services Department and its Redevelopment Agency—received a special deal on accommodations during a weekend in Napa. On Nov. 13-14, Beck stayed at a boutique hotel owned by a company hoping to open a hotel in Long Beach, and he traveled with the local lobbyist for that hotel chain, Mike Murchison. That’s the story Canalis and Robes-Meeks posted on the P-T website late Friday night—it’s must reading—and it includes quotes from Beck and his boss, City Manager Pat West. But that isn’t the story West told me when I asked him last Tuesday about possible ethical problems with the wine-tasting trip that Beck and Murchison—and their wives—took to the Napa AVIA hotel. Continue reading The District.
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