Editor's Note: Unpaid Blogger Is Dem Consultant

Stuart Osnow, who wrote a popular blog on Long Beach Patch through September 2011, is also a political consultant with ties to the city's Democrats.

Unpaid bloggers, like columns of any kind, reflect the positions and thoughts of the writer, and not Patch. His profile page now includes his affiliations.

Osnow stopped writing his blog last month. It was his decision to stop blogging.