Garcia will join the 118th Congress as California’s 42nd District representative on January 3.
Congressman-elect and outgoing Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia — along with a slew of other city officials — touted the city’s progress over the last eight years during Garcia’s farewell address at Cal State Long Beach on Monday, Dec. 12.
Garcia, along with the rest of his new colleagues in the 118th Congress, will take office on Jan. 3. He will represent Long Beach, Lakewood, Bellflower, Downey, Bell Gardens, Commerce, Vernon, Maywood, Bell, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Walnut Park and the unincorporated community of Florence-Firestone. “We could be here forever to go through the accomplishments and the projects we’ve done over the past eight years,” City Manager Tom Modica said in a speech at the event, “and if we got to tell the funny stories of what happened along those eight years up here even longer.”
Garcia, though, said that serving as mayor throughout the coronavirus pandemic — and protests in Long Beach’s downtown against police brutality following the murder of Black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 — offered valuable life lessons that he’ll carry with him to Congress.
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