A recent campaign finance report indicates that on Nov. 26, Garcia made a $50,000 loan (0% interest, "due date" June 30, 2019) that comes on top of a November 5 $50,000 loan (previously reported by LBREPORT.com) on the same terms to the Garcia/Doud pro-AAA-DDD Committee from his 2018 re-election committee.

Garica/Doud pro-AAA-DDD Committee treasurer Mark Taylor tells LBREPORT.com "we expect the [AAA-DDD] Committee will pay back the loan in the weeks ahead."

As of November 13, the Garcia-operated pro-AAA-DDD committee listed a $10,484 cash balance with $153,589 in debts (unpaid bills.) Garcia operated the same committee (prior to adding Doud's name) to support City Hall's-desired June 2018 Measure M utility revenue transfer/diversion for the June 2018 election. Two years earlier, Garcia gave it a different name (listing former Mayors O'Neill and Foster with Garcia) urging support for the City Hall-sought Measure A sales tax increase. From July 1 through Nov. 6, 2018, the committee listed sums spent/expenses incurred of $265,263, some of which may stem from the Measure M campaign preceding the AAA-DDD campaign.

As of June 30, 2018, the Garcia for Mayor 2018 re-election committee reported a cash balance of $189,403 with no outstanding debts. In addition to its loans to the pro-AAD-DDD committee, Garcia gave $7,300 from his 2018 re-election campaign committee to support state Senator Ricardo Lara's campaign for state Insurance Commissioner.

The Garcia/Doud committee collected additional sums after the Nov. 6 election:

• November 13: $7,500 from "AES Pacific & Aggregated Contributions" AES Alamitos operates the power plant on Studebaker Rd. in SE LB.

• Nov. 16: $5,000 from "Vopak North American and Subsidiaries" which operates storage tanks on Terminal Island within Port of LB area for "petroleum products, chemicals, biofuels."

• Nov. 19: $1,000 from "Shoreline Development Partners LP" (San Diego). In October 2018, the firm broke ground on the NW corner Ocean/Alamitos for the tallest building approved thus far in LB (35 stories) adjacent to its completed 17 story The Current.

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In the 17 days before election day, the Garcia-Doud committee reported incurring the following expenditures, unpaid as of Nov. 6:

During the same period, the Garcia-Doud committee paid Fairbank, Maslin, Maulin, Metz & Associates of Oakland [polling and survey research] $15,570 (portion may be from previous Measure M campaign) and still owes the firm $21,250.

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