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March 28, 2014· santaclarita.com · SantaClarita.com (SCVTalk 5.0) · Wayback capture

City Council Race: Last Campaign Money Reports Before the Election

Yesterday, campaign finance disclosure forms came due for the last reporting period before the election on April 8.

I'll have the full documents posted next week. For now, here are the totals:

Laurene Weste: 
Contributions this period: $14,437
Expenditures this period: $22,611.70
Ending cash: $19,981.24

Marsha McLean: 
Contributions this period: $12,972
Expenditures this period: $30,505.29
Ending cash: $4,715.74

Maria Gutzeit: 
Contributions this period: $10,851.97
Expenditures this period: $15,008.71
Ending cash: $9,819.38

Gloria Mercado-Fortine: 
Contributions this period: $5,304
Expenditures this period: $10,807.94
Ending cash: $8,731.06

Duane Harte: 
Contributions this period: $4,525
Expenditures this period: $5,469
Ending cash: $10,556

Al Ferdman: 
Contributions this period: $2,198
Expenditures this period: $8,067
Ending cash: $6,394

Dante Acosta: 
Contributions this period: $2,098
Expenditures this period: $6,443.29
Ending cash: $9,395

Stephen Daniels: 
Contributions this period: $1,553
Expenditures this period: $1,418.09
Ending cash: $1,492.39

Moazzem Chowdhury
Contributions this period: $1,204
Loans received this period: $8,000
Expenditures this period: $20,375.53
Ending cash (minus unpaid bills): $3,854.67

Berta González-Harper: 
Contributions this period: $843.19
Expenditures this period: $0
Ending cash: $535.05

Candidates Paul Wieczorek, Dennis Conn and Sandra Bull filed Form 470, which is for candidates that will not raise or spend more than $1,000 during the year. 

PACs are back
There were two political action committees that got into the act with some independent expenditures.

California Conservatives for Ethics and Integrity in Politics
Backed by: Developers, Scott Wilk
Supporting: Laurene Weste and Marsha McLean
Contributions this period: $7,000
Expenditures this period: $5,241
Ending cash (minus unpaid bills): $1,759

Placer County Republican Assembly PAC
Backed by: Alice Khosravy, Wendy Albright, David Gauny
Supporting: Gloria Mercado-Fortine, Dante Acosta and Al Ferdman
Contributions this period: $5,877.64
Expenditures this period: $4,391.07
Ending cash: $3,420.57 (likely includes money not intended for this election)


City Council Race: Last Campaign Money Reports Before the Election

Comments (2)

  1. Mark ArchuletaSaturday, March 29th, 2014 at 11:56 am
    Nice work Mike. Folks don't realize this is time consuming to compile.
  2. Mark ArchuletaSaturday, March 29th, 2014 at 11:59 pm
    Nice work Mike. Folks don't realize this is time consuming to compile.

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