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Huntington Beach is swinging red hard in recent history. I'd call their current changes 'questionable'.
They ignored COVID19 vaccine and mask mandates, sued California for trying to make them zone their share of more housing due to the lack of affordable housing crisis, dissolved the long-standing human relations committee (created essentially to ensure everyone is treated equal regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation and disabilities), is trying to make IDs are voter polls mandatory even though it is against California law, have been removing books from the city's libraries involving se LGBTQ+ themes as well as sex education 'to protect the children!!' and of course to withdraw from the Orange County Power Authority -- a renewable-energy focused provider for some reason.
Moser (D), a council member, asked Van Der Mark (R), another council member if they were a holocaust denier and if she had any association with the Proud Boys. The Republican side of the council (the majority) censured Moser due to this.
The context of this was due to Van Der Mark's publicly posted playlisted on YouTube titled "Holocaust Hoax?" and 'accidentally' posted it. Van Der Mark claims it was simply for research purposes. Also of note, there is a segment of Proud Boys and others that held a "White Lives Matter" protest in recent years at Huntington Beach and Van Der Mark was in a picture with Kyle Chapman, a leader of the Proud Boys, on a FB post. She also attended an anti-Islam event and was pictured standing just behind Johnn Benitez wearing a Proud Boys uniform and posed for pictures with other Proud Boys.
According to the ADL, she also referred to black people in YouTube comments as "colored people" as well as that they "dutifully did the bidding of Jews" at a white privilege workshop in Santa Minica.
Of note, she has said that she is not a holocaust denier but as far as I know hasn't specifically said that she has no ties to the Proud Boys.
This is already too long but this could also include her predecessor, Tito Ortiz (R). Ortiz named her their successor after quitting due to 'media pressure' due to their support of the Jan 6 Capital Attack, boycott of a burger place that wanted him to wear a mask (and as I recall a really cringy video that he recorded during it) and same again at a library.
That's not directly relevant to the above but just to be clear they are both (Van Der Mark and Ortiz) a shitshow.
Regardless of the issues above, Huntington Beach seems to be signaling that they are essentially a California MAGA stronghold in regards to how the GOP council members campaign and in their political agenda that they've been pushing forward.
Lol that burger place was TK Burgers, best burgers on So Cal. My brother worked there for years, and I got to know the owner pretty well. Everyone that tried to "enforce" that boycott was laughed off the street.
HB has always had a sizable population of whackos and morons. There was a full on riot on Main and PCH years ago during the US Open when some dinguses got into a fight, and bunch more decided to pile on and started knocking over portajohns. Skin heads wander about unopposed. The locals that surf the pier are some of the biggest territorial douchebags I've ever met. I can keep going, but fuck HB, place is a cesspool of room temp IQ nitwits.