{"id":250772,"date":"2026-04-04T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250772\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:05:11","slug":"letter-long-beach-dumping-first-to-serve-so-quickly-is-suspicious-2-urban-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250772\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Long Beach dumping First to Serve so quickly is suspicious! | 2 Urban Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 Urban Girls,<\/p>\n<p>I know you don\u2019t cover Long Beach that extensively but as a former employee of First to Serve let me be the first to say that something is suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>For Long Beach Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/2urbangirls.com\/?s=rex+richardson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rex Richardson<\/a> to abruptly sever ties with the nonprofit BEFORE the conclusion of the internal investigation raises questions about what the City knew about fiscal malfeasance before it came to the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>Although they stopped paying the organization late last year, to end the contract so quickly is quite frankly, unheard of.<\/p>\n<p>As for the allegations of fiscal mismanagement, it is true! The owner\/operator have faced multiple lawsuits from its employees and are very cheap when it comes to providing services to the people they are paid to serve.<\/p>\n<p>Is ending the contract a way to divert focus from what the investigation will reveal?<\/p>\n<p>I hope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/2urbangirls\/reel\/DWo_YcdDxRW\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Sweeney<\/a> becomes the new mayor, enough is enough.<\/p>\n<p>Disgusted former employee<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 Urban Girls, I know you don\u2019t cover Long Beach that extensively but as a former employee of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[111559,131,133,132,19187],"class_list":{"0":"post-250772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-first-to-serve-inc","9":"tag-long-beach","10":"tag-long-beach-headlines","11":"tag-long-beach-news","12":"tag-mayor-rex-richardson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}