Orange County officials released the names of six candidates and 18 donors involved in returned campaign donations that may have exceeded legal limits, after previously declining to make them public.
Tag: campaign finance
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Politics & Elections, Top Stories
County Won’t Name Everyone Who Broke Campaign Money Laws
Supervisors structured the county enforcement so that when violators are caught by the county enforcement officials, they can return the illegal money and the matter goes away quietly.
Posted inCountywide, Politics & Elections, Top Stories
Big Donors Can Dominate City Election Spending – Whether or Not There are Contribution Limits
Whether you’re a California voter, business owner or run a special interest group, if you want to be a big election donor, you can find a way to get your money in.
Posted inAnaheim, Irvine, Politics & Elections, Santa Ana, Westminster
City Council Candidates Already Fundraising for Next Year’s Races
Several Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine and other city council members and candidates reported robust fundraising for the first six months of 2017, according to the latest campaign finance disclosures.
Posted inCountywide, Economy, Orange, Top Stories
OC Supervisors Have Chosen an Ethics Director
County supervisors picked Denah Hoard, the senior assistant city attorney for Orange, as the first executive director of the county’s still-unformed Campaign Finance and Ethics Commission.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Top Stories
Records Indicate Voter Data Was Used to Target Do’s Taxpayer-Funded Mailers
Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do’s office spent over $240,000 in taxpayer money on a stream of mass mailers. Now it appears that many of the mailers were targeted based on powerful voter databases normally used by political campaigns.
Posted inSanta Ana
Jose Solorio Fined $3,500 for Using Campaign Money on Apartment Rent
The state Fair Political Practices Commission determined that Solorio, a lobbyist and Santa Ana City Council Candidate, broke the law by using campaign funds on an apartment he is renting for personal use.
Posted inAnaheim, Politics & Elections
Disney Breaks Its Own Spending Record in This Year’s Anaheim Council Election
With a week to go until the election, The Walt Disney Company’s spending on Anaheim City Council races has blown past the record it set in 2014 and is approaching the $1-million mark, according to the most recent campaign finance filings.
Posted inSanta Ana
Has Mayor Pulido Found a Way Around Santa Ana’s Campaign Money Laws?
In a departure from his past campaigns, Miguel Pulido is apparently depending entirely on independent groups to run his re-election. But there are questions about whether he’s playing by the rules.
Posted inSanta Ana
Solorio Pays Back Campaign Money He Used for Apartment Rent
Santa Ana City Council candidate Jose Solorio says he personally paid $2,880 to his campaign to reimburse what was spent on his apartment, following a Voice of OC report that the arrangement could violate state law.
