{"id":497888,"date":"2026-10-16T08:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497888\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:52:27","slug":"know-your-electeds-long-beach-city-cm-tunua-thrash-ntuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497888\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Electeds Long Beach City CM Tunua Thrash-Ntuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representing Long Beach\u2019s 8th District, City Councilmember Tunua Thrash-Ntuk was inspired to run for office to make her neighborhood better and safer for her community and for the kids she is raising there.<\/p>\n<p>One thing Thrash-Ntuk wishes people knew about her job is that councilmembers are part-time elected officials who are often working parents just like their constituents. Her proudest accomplishment so far is outfitting a new office to serve the community in the heart of the district.<\/p>\n<p>If Thrash-Ntuk could have lunch with any elected officials, she would choose Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. She is currently reading Viola Davis\u2019s autobiography, Finding Me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Representing Long Beach\u2019s 8th District, City Councilmember Tunua Thrash-Ntuk was inspired to run for office to make her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,193338,131,133,132,2998,5996],"class_list":["post-497888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-know-your-electeds","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497888","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=497888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}