Four conservative candidates running for the four open seats on Huntington Beach’s City Council have been working as a team and are ahead in the vote count as of Nov. 11 at 5 p.m.
Pat Burns, a 29-year resident and retired police lieutenant, is in the lead with 13.64 percent of the vote out of 18 candidates in the at-large election.
Behind him is small business owner Tony Strickland, a former state assemblyman and state senator, with 13.5 percent.
Gracey Van Der Mark, a resident of 22 years and a business owner, is in third with 12.36 percent of the vote, followed by small business owner and resident of 44 years Casey McKeon’s 12.16 percent….