• Nov.5: Int'l Union of Painters And Allied Trades, Hannover, Maryland: $1,000

• Nov. 5: Daryl Lucient of Lucient Partners, Sacramento: $1,000

  Firm's website text: "Darryl Lucien brings more than 12 years of senior legislative, governmental advocacy, public affairs, and political campaign experience. During this period Lucien has guided over 60 bills into law and secured hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for clients and constituents in California. Lucien has recently been central to negotiations on major legislative settlements which include police use-of-force, school finance, California finance lending laws, charter school growth, and oil and gas regulation..."

• Nov. 4: Building Owners & Managers Ass'n of Greater Los Angeles PAC: $1,000

  Group's website text: "Since our founding in 1915, BOMA/GLA has made it our mission to enhance and protect the value of commercial real estate in the Greater Los Angeles market. Representing 135 million square feet of office and industrial space, and contributing $3.5 billion to California’s economy annually, we have a strong and effective voice when it comes to carrying out that mission. We are the commercial real estate industry's unfailing advocate, representing your interests in the community and at all levels of government."

• Nov. 4: Californians for Full Employment and Balanced Grown: $1,000

  Committee formerly included in its title the name of Sebastian Ridley Thomas (son of LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas) who was a CA Assemblymember until Dec. 2017 when he resigned citing unspecified health problems. On Jan. 16, 2019, the LA Times reported that Sebastian Ridley-Thomas had been "the subject of two sexual harassment complaints at the time he stepped down..."

  Nov. 4: Millienial Advisors, LLC: $1,000

  On Aug. 15, 2018, the L.A. Times reported: "[Sebastian] Ridley-Thomas resumed some political work just weeks after resigning [from the Assembly.] In February [2018], he registered a new consulting business, Millennial Advisors. The firm has collected more than $80,000 from the African American Voter Registration, Education and Participation Project, a political action committee founded by his father. The fees cover consulting, office expenses and advertising. A related AAVREP committee specially formed to support Gavin Newsom's bid for governor -- mostly backed by donations from labor unions -- listed Sebastian Ridley-Thomas as treasurer and paid his Millennial Advisors firm more than $27,000."

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The $5,000 in the 24 hours before the polls closed brings the total received by the Zendejas campaign to at least $111,000. That's in addition to at least $17,000 in supportive "independent" expenditures to support her election using $30,000 -- three $10,000 contributions -- to the LB Firefighters Ass'n PAC from Mayor Robert Garcia's "2026 Lt. Gov. Committee," State Senator Gonzalez's 2019 Election Committee plus LB Police Officers PAC) reported in detail here. The Firefighters Ass'n PAC reported spending $17,000 over a period of weeks for items including canvassing and other field work.

For detailed LBREPORT.com "Follow the Money" coverage of the 1st district election, see LBREPORT.com coverage here, here, here, here, and here.

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In the November 5 unofficial tally (with provisional ballots and late arriving vote by ballots remaining to be counted), Ms. Zendejas finished first in the no-runoff special election with 31.28% of the vote -- 608 votes -- in the Council district (with 50,000 residents/roughly 20,000-registered voters. Mariela Salgado finished second with 25.26% of the vote (491 votes) and six others followed.

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Ms. Zendejas isn't the first LB Councilmember elected with less than a majority of votes cast in the 1st Council district. A little over ten years ago, Robert Garcia (in 2005 a leader in LB's Young Republicans and until mid-2006 a Council office aide to LB Councilman Frank Colonna) moved from the 3rd district into the 1st district (after Colonna finished second in the 2006 Mayor's race to Bob Foster) when it was clear that the 1st district's Councilwoman, Bonnie Lowenthal, would in the next election cycle seek Sacramento office and create a Council vacancy. Garcia changed his registered voter preference from Reppublican to Democrat, and when Lowenthal was elected to the Assembly, Garcia announced his 1st district Council candidacy (already lined up with support from local Dems and his former 3rd district connections.) Garcia received roughly $100,000 in contributions and in April 2009 finished first, elected with 40% of the vote in a multi-candidate no-runoff election. .

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