Fangary files suit over mayor rotation
Hermosa Beach City Councilmember Hany Fangary has filed a lawsuit against the city and several of his fellow council members, the most significant example yet of the tension riving Hermosa’s local government. News of the lawsuit became public last week at an extraordinary meeting at which several elected officials relayed a bizarre account of a feud between Fangary and City Manager Suja Lowenthal rooted in the former’s anger at the loss of council member parking spots at City Hall. That tension with Fangary had been building for more than six months leading up to the night of Nov. 19, the council members said, when they voted to abandon the traditional order associated with the city’s rotation of the ceremonial mayor position, and name Justin Massey, rather than Fangary, mayor pro tem. Fangary’s wife Dina, named as the plaintiff, is asking a court to order the council to overturn that decision. Fangary is serving as the attorney in the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court last week. City Attorney Michael Jenkins, who is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit, called the filing “unprecedented.” “I have to say, I’ve been in this business for 40 years, and I’ve never…
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