In District 2, there are two early front runners in Elias Portales and Sergio Jimenez.
Elias Portales leads the district with an impressive $35,777 raised in the month of December. Mr. Portales has a good amount of funds available with $33,670.16 cash on hand. Sergio Jimenez is next in the district with a respectable $17,005.16 raised in December, Mr. Jimenez was very efficient with the money raised, he still has $16,797.16 of that on hand. Neither candidate has listed any debt.
Other candidates in the race are Joe Lopez and Steve Brown, both of whom had not begun raising money in December, and Henry Perry, who is yet to file his campaign report for December, which was due February 1st.
In District 4, only two candidates have opened campaign committees, Manh Nguyen and Lan Diep.
Current Councilmember Manh Nguyen has raised $17,060 in contributions and loaned himself another $1,000 in funds. Mr. Nguyen currently sits at just over $18,000 cash on hand and just over $1,600 in accrued debt. His opponent Lan Diep had not begun raising funds in December, he will not have to submit his first campaign report until March.
District 6 is shaping up to be the race to watch in the early going, the candidates did not disappoint as several turned in strong fundraising numbers for December.
Leading the way for all City Council Candidates in San Jose is Erik Fong with $35,858 raised from contributions and another $5,000 in dollars he loaned from himself for a total of $40,858. Mr. Fong has $38,113.05 cash on hand at the end of December, and $15,000 in accrued expenses between his loan and some consulting fees. Coming in second is Norman Kline with $40,584 raised in contributions in December, Mr. Kline self-contributed $10,010, but unlike many other council candidates, the money he contributed is not a loan to his campaign. He has $34,000 on hand and owes just over $7,000 from a fundraiser in December. Rounding out the top three in total raised is Dev Davis, while only raising $12,375 in campaign contributions, she buoyed her campaign by loaning herself an additional $20,000.
Helen Chapman, Peter Allen, and Chris Roth also had successful months of December. Ms. Chapman raised just over $16,000 in campaign contributions and loaned her campaign an additional $16,000 for a total of $32,054 raised in December. While just outside the top 3 in total raised, Ms. Chapman’s fundraising was efficient as she has no accrued expenses listed, outside of her personal loan, and a little under $31,000 cash on hand. Mr. Allen raised $26,433.32 in contributions and had $19,679.85 cash on hand, he has $11,000 in campaign consultant fees listed as accrued expenses in December. Rounding out the pack is Chris Roth with $21,314 raised, he self financed $1,150 to his campaign, but like Kline, did not list the funds as a loan. Roth has almost $21,000 on hand and has $4,200 listed as accrued expenses at the end of December.
Rueben Navarro and Myron Von Raesfeld have also filed campaign committees for D6, but neither had begun fundraising in December.
District 8 is our final competitive district.
Josh Barousse leads the way in contributions received for the District at $20,211.16 and has been extremely efficient, having spent no money and only listing $445 in accrued debts. Jimmy Nguyen leads the way in total raised, with the help of a $10,000 loan from himself bringing his total raised to $24,276. Mr. Nguyen has $23,684.14 on hand and his only debt is his personal loan. Denise Belisle also had a decent December and raised $14,445 in contributions and another $5,000 from a personal loan to her campaign. She has $18,600 cash on hand at the end of December. Patrick Waite rounds out the December totals with a mere $1,000 raised, all from a personal loan.
Sylvia Arenas is the final candidate, so far, to have formed a campaign committee for D8, but she had not begun raising money in December.
District 10 is the only district to have an unopposed incumbent, Johnny Khamis.
In December, he raised $26,650 and has $21,280 cash on hand.
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