By special request, here is Amy Taxin’s report on Santa Ana Council Candidate Jennifer Villasenor’s fundraising, as published in the Total Buzz blog.
Santa Ana fundraising: Villasenor’s wellspring
So far, Jennifer Villasenor is leading in fundraising for Santa Ana’s Ward 6 Council race. But of the $11,009 Villasenor has raised since July, nearly half has come from executives connected to real estate developer Arthur Birtcher, according to campaign filing disclosures.
The papers show that Villasenor, a city planner for Huntington Beach and a UC Irvine cheer coach, received $1,000 on Sept. 27 from each of four executives at Birtcher Anderson Realty LLC and $1,000 from Arthur B. Birtcher Revocable.
Birtcher — co-chair of San Juan Capistrano-based Birtcher Anderson Realty – has a lengthy history of investing in Santa Ana. Villasenor is backed by Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido, who has faced criticism from Villasenor’s opponent in the Ward 6 Council race, Sal Tinajero.
Tinajero, a Santa Ana Unified board member and Fullerton Union High School teacher, has raised $5,049 to date in his race for Council. The third candidate vying for the seat, videographer George Collins, has accepted the $1,000 campaign spending limit and as a result does not file contribution lists with the Clerk of the Council.
— Amy Taxin
Taking bribes, I mean cash, gives you an easy out AKA Mayor Pulido and his fake lack of interest in one broadway plaza. She is just learning from yoda.
Please don’t hate…appreciate…You Go Girl!
thousands of dollars pours into villasenors race because of pulido.
ethics violations,laws broken,promises not kept.santa ana will not survive four more years of villasenor,benavides and rivera
Jennifer is a wonderful human being and will make a great councilwoman. And you know the really amazing thing about her is she does not hold a grudge and will be kind to those of you who are attacking her now even after she is elected. I don’t know to which faith she belongs but she models the Christian values we try to teach in my Catholic home. May God guide and protect you Jennifer and help you to remain gracias even in victory.