Candidates raise record sum for election
This year’s election to select three individuals to serve on Yorba Linda’s City Council will go down in the municipality’s 45-year history as the most expensive campaign so far, easily outdistancing the previous 24 council ballots in money raised and spent.
Through Oct. 20, seven candidates and five groups supporting two separate slates raised more than $222,000 in cash, goods and services to fund the battle for a majority of seats on a council contentiously divided 3-2 on several key issues for the past four years.
And the already-record $222,470 sum is sure to exceed the quarter-million-dollar mark when all income and expenses are totaled from documents filed by the candidates and committees with the City Clerk and California Secretary of State by a Jan 31 deadline.
At an Oct. 20 cut-off date for a state-mandated accounting, six of seven candidates reported they raised $137,902 in cash and other resources, with four groups adding $84,568 and a fifth not yet reporting obvious expenses incurred for one contender.
Biggest spender through Oct. 20 was the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, as listed in an “independent expenditure” filing with the state, which detailed $62,030 in spending on Oct. 2, 3, 9, 12 and 17 for Ken Peterson, Nancy Rikel and Mark Schwing.
The total reported by Yorba Linda Residents for Responsible Representation, which also supported Peterson, Rikel and Schwing, was $7,370, mostly from nine loans from people long associated with the group, although a July garage sale brought in $1,288.
Another political action committee, United Citizens for Yorba Linda, supporters of Gene Hernandez, Lou Knappenberger and Craig Young, reported $10,366 in donations, mostly from 10 individuals, many of whom were active in the attempt to recall John Anderson.
A committee named “Vote Hernandez, Knappenberger, Young for Yorba Linda City Council 2012,” with three-term Councilman Jim Winder as treasurer and “controlling officer,” listed a $4,802 total.
Interestingly, a $500 contribution came from Councilman Tom Lindsey and his wife. Lindsey was Anderson’s running-mate in 2010 and was endorsed by Rikel, Schwing and Yorba Linda Residents for Responsible Representation in that election.
The fifth group is Orange County Jobs Coalition, which in October sent out three mailers for Hernandez. Although the coalition is listed as “active” by the California Secretary of State, that agency noted the group hadn’t filed any reports as of Nov. 1. (My estimate for three mailers ranges from $12,000 to $18,000, depending on number sent.)
Individual candidates reported raising the following amounts for their campaigns through Oct. 20: Hernandez, $46,440; Young, $32,279; Rikel, $26,018; Schwing, $16,250; Peterson, $12,966; and Knappenberger, $3,949. Todd Cooper didn’t file a report, which indicates he raised and spent less than $1,000.
Much of the cash came from self-made loans, which stand at $39,500 for Rikel (for both 2008 and 2012); $25,000 for Young; $13,456 for Schwing; $10,000 for Peterson; $6,000 for Hernandez; and $3,103 for Knappenberger.
Through Oct. 20, seven candidates and five groups supporting two separate slates raised more than $222,000 in cash, goods and services to fund the battle for a majority of seats on a council contentiously divided 3-2 on several key issues for the past four years.
And the already-record $222,470 sum is sure to exceed the quarter-million-dollar mark when all income and expenses are totaled from documents filed by the candidates and committees with the City Clerk and California Secretary of State by a Jan 31 deadline.
At an Oct. 20 cut-off date for a state-mandated accounting, six of seven candidates reported they raised $137,902 in cash and other resources, with four groups adding $84,568 and a fifth not yet reporting obvious expenses incurred for one contender.
Biggest spender through Oct. 20 was the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, as listed in an “independent expenditure” filing with the state, which detailed $62,030 in spending on Oct. 2, 3, 9, 12 and 17 for Ken Peterson, Nancy Rikel and Mark Schwing.
The total reported by Yorba Linda Residents for Responsible Representation, which also supported Peterson, Rikel and Schwing, was $7,370, mostly from nine loans from people long associated with the group, although a July garage sale brought in $1,288.
Another political action committee, United Citizens for Yorba Linda, supporters of Gene Hernandez, Lou Knappenberger and Craig Young, reported $10,366 in donations, mostly from 10 individuals, many of whom were active in the attempt to recall John Anderson.
A committee named “Vote Hernandez, Knappenberger, Young for Yorba Linda City Council 2012,” with three-term Councilman Jim Winder as treasurer and “controlling officer,” listed a $4,802 total.
Interestingly, a $500 contribution came from Councilman Tom Lindsey and his wife. Lindsey was Anderson’s running-mate in 2010 and was endorsed by Rikel, Schwing and Yorba Linda Residents for Responsible Representation in that election.
The fifth group is Orange County Jobs Coalition, which in October sent out three mailers for Hernandez. Although the coalition is listed as “active” by the California Secretary of State, that agency noted the group hadn’t filed any reports as of Nov. 1. (My estimate for three mailers ranges from $12,000 to $18,000, depending on number sent.)
Individual candidates reported raising the following amounts for their campaigns through Oct. 20: Hernandez, $46,440; Young, $32,279; Rikel, $26,018; Schwing, $16,250; Peterson, $12,966; and Knappenberger, $3,949. Todd Cooper didn’t file a report, which indicates he raised and spent less than $1,000.
Much of the cash came from self-made loans, which stand at $39,500 for Rikel (for both 2008 and 2012); $25,000 for Young; $13,456 for Schwing; $10,000 for Peterson; $6,000 for Hernandez; and $3,103 for Knappenberger.
posted by Jim Drummond at 12:00 AM
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