Huntington Beach Mayor Pro Tem Tito Ortiz will step down from his elected role, he said June 1 during city council’s first in-person meeting of the year. “I ran for this position with hopes to better my community, work on my constituents and give them a voice, making our beautiful city safe and clean, and to ensure a bright future for my children,” Ortiz said when announcing his resignation. “I was under a notion that I was in a bipartisan position and …to put it frankly, that’s not the case. “This job isn’t working for me,” he added. Explaining the reasoning behind his resignation, Ortiz said that from the day he was sworn into city council last Dec. 7, he was met with hostility and judgement, including a number of negative news articles. “Being a public figure, nothing is new,” he said. “However, to be so focused on character assassination each and every week, with multiple news stories [that] leak personal information, all in …