Thursday’s filing deadline left some candidates with a solid financial footing and others with long road to catch up.
Let’s start with the San Jose City Council District 8 race, which has the most outside money coming in. Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de León, representing the Los Angeles area, Senator Connie Leyva, representing a large portion of San Bernardino County, and Senator Ed Hernandez, who represents east LA and San Gabriel Valley, all maxed out to candidate Sylvia Arenas. In total Arenas raised $11, 295 and has $5,643.37 cash on hand.
Meanwhile, District 8 candidate Joshua Barousse raised more than $36,800 this reporting period and has $39,000 on hand, giving him a solid lead on Arenas and edging out Pat Waite, who has raised $36,600, loaned himself $19,000 and has $17,500 cash on hand.
In District 6, there are a number of active fundraising candidates. Norm Klein has raised $35,225 and has $21,900 cash on hand, followed by Dev Davis who raised $31,622.84, loaned herself $20,000 and has $30,687.73 cash on hand. Third on the list is Helen Chapman who raised $27,167, has $16,000 in loans to herself and $29,110 cash on hand. Rounding out the top four is Erik Fong. Fong raised $23,749, loaned himself $15,000 and boasts $46,851 in cash.
San Jose City Council District 4 incumbent Mahn Nguyen raised $33,793 and has $29,832 cash on hand. His opponent Lan Diep, has yet to file his financial statements.
In the District 2 race, Sergio Jimenez is leading the pack, not only in terms of money raised ($30,414), but also cash on hand ($35,244.93). Elias Portales comes in second with $19,559.16 raised and $29,198.26 cash on hand. Both Joe Lopez and Steve Brown have raised some funds and loaned themselves a hefty sum, $20,000 and $10,375 respectively.
Now, on to the 27th Assembly District race, which is seeing extremely close fundraising benchmarks reached by Ash Kalra and Madison Nguyen. Kalra raised $135,110 and has $356,800 cash on hand. Madison answered by raising $151,000 and having $345,000 on hand. Van Le has not been able to raise even half of what Kalra and Madison has amassed. Esau Herrera, Andres Quintero, and Cong Do have not yet filed.
The next reporting deadline is May 22nd, 16 days before the June 7th election.
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