Follow the Money: See Who Gave Sums And In What Amounts To Put These Candidates On LB's City Council From 1st District...Where One Of Them Will Cast Votes On Spending And Developments Impacting Taxpayers And Neighborhoods Citywide

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(Sept. 27, 2019, 9:45 p.m.) -- The individuals, entities and interest groups listed below gave $500 or more to support the candidates listed below seeking to become LB's next 1st dist. City Councilmember. In that position, they'll have the power cast votes on matters affecting LB residents/taxpayers citywide. L.A. County's Registrar/Recorder says vote by mail ballots began being mailed Sept. 26. "Election day" is November 5.

For summary purposes, we haven't itemized sources of contributions totaling less than $500 although all campaigns had several in this category. LBREPORT.com will cite some of the salient among them in subsequent coverage..

Although we list candidates below in the order of contribution totals, we don't suggest or imply that this necessarily reflects "leader(s)" or "frontrunner(s)." In a multi-candidate no-runoff race, in a likely low-turnout special (not regularly scheduled) election in a historically low turnout Council district, and amid elections that have produced unexpected outcomes across the country, we believe it would be foolhardy to predict the outcome of the upcoming 1st dist. race on contribution totals alone.

Elections matter and knowledge is power...and LBREPORT.com believes LB residents have a right to know who's giving money and in what amounts to put idividuals on the City Council whose votes will impact LB taxpayers and neighborhoods citywide. Quick summaries follow below, then scroll down to "follow the money."

Summary: As of Sept. 21, 2019 (the close of the most recent periodic filing period):

Mary Zendejas' campaign received $60,429, spent $31,218 (of which $9,614 are currently accrued expenses/unpaid bills) and has $38,824 cash on hand. Her campaign's major expenditures included Overland Strategies (literature: $8,792) and Progressive Solutions Consulting ($5.407.)

Misi Tagaloa's camapaign's received $56,819 (of which $32,000 were donations by the candidate to his campaign plus a $10,000 loan from the candidate to his campaign), spent $25,904 (of which $4,400 are currently accrued expenses/unpaid bills) and has $34,314 cash on hand. His campaign's major expenditures included $8,825 to Lambert Adouki (campaign consulting and canvassing) and $2,000 to Scott Adams (campaign consulting)

Ray Morquecho's campaign received $26,683, spent $12,665 (of which $758 are currently accrued expenses/unapid bills) and has $14,785 cash on hand. His campaign's major expenditures included Merino Barajas & Associates (campaign consulting/phone banking/lawn signs: $5,575) and Steve Napolitano, Esq. (campaign consulting: $2,000) [as of Sept. 27 listed on LB Councilwoman Stacy Mungo's office website as "senior advisor."]

Mariela Salgado's campaign received $13,369 (of which $500 is a loan from the candidate to her campaign), spent $7,968, has no accrued/unpaid bills, and has $5,721 cash on hand. Her campaign's major expenditures included Blue State Consulting ($2,000) and Image Cube (literature: $3,997)

Joe Ganem's campaign received $5,225, spent $4,621 (of which $2.974 are currently accrued expenses/unpaid bills) and has $3,578 cash on hand.

Eliot Gonzales' campaign received $2,650 (of which $925 were non-monetary contributions and $236 were loans from two individuals), spent $2,597 (of which $600 are currently accrued expenses/unpaid bills) and has $653 cash on hand.

Shelbryae Black's campaign received $1,002 (of which $880 was loan from the candidate to the campaign) and spent $1,002.

Shirley Huling had no contributions or expenses indicated

Details below.

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Mary Zendejas

Date	Source	Sum	Listed as	LBREPORT.com note
July 26	Suja Lowenthal Officeholder Committee	$1,000		Former Vice Mayor/2nd district Councilwoman (2006-2016), now Hermosa Beach City Mgr.
July 29	Mary's LB dba Hamburger Mary's	$1,000
July 30	Andrew Kerr	$500	CFO, Crew Inc.	Mayor Garcia appointee to two advisory bodies: Measure A sales tax committee and Homeless Task Force
July 30	Megan Kerr for School Board 2018	$500
July 30	Long Beach Firefighters Ass'n Local 372	$2,500
July 30	Lee Andrews Group	$1,000
July 30	Michael Tumanjan	$1,000
July 30	Vanir Construction Management	$750
July 31	Robert Harris	$500	President/Owner Malibu Ceramic Works
July 31	Matthew Harris	$500	Operations Dir. Malibu Ceramic Works
July 31+ Sept. 20	Charles Song	$400 (total)	Career Advancement CAA
Aug. 2	Lena Gonzalez for Senate 2019	$1,000		Immediate past 1st dist. Councilwoman.
Aug. 12	AES	$500
Aug. 12	Plumbers Union Local 78 PAC	$500
Aug 20+ Sept. 20	George Medak	$1,000 (total)	President Affiliated Development Group
Aug. 21	Alex Cherin	Attorney, Englander, Knabe & Allen	$500
Aug. 23	Lockyer for Controller	$500
Aug. 27	Cynthia Allen	$400	Marketing/ETA	Immediate past publisher LBPost.com
Aug. 27	Long Beach Mobility PAC	$2,000		PAC is sponsored by LB Yellow Cab
Aug. 27	Robert Garcia for Lt. Governor 2026	$1,000
Aug. 28	Sean Rawson, Newport Beach	$1,000	Real estate developer, Waterford Property Corp.
Aug. 28	Nick Worthington	$500	Pres. Worthington Ford
Sept. 3	Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1277	$1,000
Sept. 3	Long Beach Police Officers Ass'n PAC	$2,500
Sept. 4	Kelly Curtin	$1,000		CFO, Curtin Maritime Corp
Sept. 4	Townsend Public Affairs	$1,000
Sept. 5	James Ahumada	$500	Sr. Communications Mgr. CSULB ASI
Sept. 9	Mary Alice Sedillo	$500
Sept. 9	Townsend Public Affairs	$1,000
July 10+ July 26+ Sept. 5	Cory Allen	$575 (total)	Consultant PSC campaigns
Sept. 10	IBEW Local 11	$2,500
Sept. 10	Frank Suryan	$500	CEO Lyon Living
Sept. 11	Bill Bloomfield	$1,000	Retired
Sept. 12	Michael Walter	$500	Prof. CSULB
Sept. 16	Elizabeth Keesal	$1,000	Homemaker	Rolling Hills resident/spouse of prominent LB attorney Skip Keesal
Sept. 16	AECOM PAC	$500
Sept. 18	Long Beach Collective Ass'n	$1,000
Sept. 18	Robert Murphy	$500	Retired
Sept. 18	Kekoa Anderson	$1,000	Engineer,Koa consulting
Sept. 19	John Chiang	$500	Owner, All Fortune Group LLC
Sept. 19	Community to Re-Elect Councilwoman Pearce 2020	$400
Sept. 19	Matt Knabe	$500	Partner Englander, Knabe & Allen
Sept. 20	Progressive Solutions Consulting	$300
Sept. 20	Steve Opp	$500	Real Estate Alluinn
Sept. 20	SW Regional Council of Carpenters PAC	$2,500
Sept. 20	Democratic Women's Study Club of LB	$1,000
Sept. 20	SA Recycling	$500
Sept. 20	Ron Stone	$500	Owners, Strategic Gov't Affairs
Sept. 20	Laborer's Int'l Union of North America Local 1309	$2,500
Sept. 20	Dignity CA SEIU Local 1215	$800
Sept. 20	James Eleopoulos	$500	Owner Big E Pizza
Sept. 20	UFCW Local 324 PAC	$1,000
Sept. 20	Unite Here Local 11	$400
Sept. 21	Feliciano Orozco	$1,000	Industrial Mechanic, Luminum Precision Products
Sept. 21	James Reinheimer	$500	Lifeguard City of LB

Misi Tagaloa

Date	Source	Sum	Listed as
Cumulative	Misi Tagaloa	$32,000 (total)	Candidate
July 12 + Aug. 24	Nicholas Dibs	$1,000 (total)	Teacher, Los Alamitos
Aug. 30	William Walker	$1,000	President, Farmers & Merchants Bank

Ray Morquecho

Date	Source	Sum	Listed as
July 12	Kristie Kinney Pabst	$1,000	Real Estate Broker Pabst. Kinney & Associates
July 22	Mario Ortega	$500	Att'y Grigoryan, Blum & Grigoryan
July 29	Alevy & Associates	$1,000
July 29	Amusement Industry Inc.	$1,000
July 29	Las Vegas Residential Properties, LLC	$1,000
Aug 1	Steve Warshauer	$1,000	Retired
Aug 1+ Sept. 15	James Werner	$1,000 (total)	GM, Whacheon Usa
Aug. 7	Kolby Pabst	$500	Property Supervisor Pabst. Kinney & Associates
Aug. 10	Elaine Hutchison	$1,000	VP Tone Software
Aug. 10	Donald Kennedy	$1,000	Retired
Aug. 14	Krosby Pabst	$500	Sales Associate Pabst. Kinney & Associates
Aug. 14	Spencer Pabst	$500	Broker Associate Pabst. Kinney & Associates
Aug. 19	Keegan Pabst	$500	Property Supervisor Pabst. Kinney & Associates
Aug. 23	Laura Hamilton	$1,000	Client Associate Chase Bank
Aug. 23	George Karahalios	$1,000	Real Estate
Aug. 24	Robert Thomas	$1,000	Real Estate Management
Sept. 17	Mr. V's Bar & Grill	$1,000

Mariela Salgado

Date	Source	Sum	Listed as
July 18+ Aug. 12	James Danno	$500 (total)	Maintenance City of LB
July 22	Mark Perry	$500	Telecom administrator West Dermatology
Aug. 2+ Aug. 30	Abel Pacheco	$600 (total)	Seattle City Councilmember
Aug. 5+ 9/11	Deborah Behar	$1,000 (total)	Homemaker
Aug. 5	Maria Watkins	$1,000	Retired
Aug. 5+ Sept. 3	Alayn Ortiz	$500 (total)	Mental Health Therapist, Star View Community Services
Aug. 11+ 8/31	Maria Tew	$750 (total)	Hairstylist, Hair by Cristina
Aug. 13	Kekoa Anderson	$500	Chief Engr./Gen'l Contractor, Koa consulting
Aug. 17	Abel Pacheco Perez	$1,000	Rewind Specialist Electric Motor Works
Sept. 3	Santa Perez<	$500	Homemaker

Joe Ganem

Date	Source	Sum	Listed as
Sept. 9	Hagen Ganem	$1,000	Att'y Skadden Arps Slate Meagher
Sept. 9	Nancy Downs	$500	Self employed real estate owner
Sept. 9	Poston Tanaka	$1,000	Retired
Sept. 18	Joe Ganem IV	$1,000	Exec. Dir. South King Fire & Rescue
Sept. 18	Salem Ganem	$1,000	CIOs office, Sony Pictures

Elliot Gonzales

Date	Source	Sum	Listed as	LBREPORT.com note
Sept. 13	Wendall Johnson	$666	Engineer, City of Compton

Shelbyrae Black

Candidate had one contribution from herself to campaign ($122) plus $880 loan from herself to the campaign.

Shirley Huling

No contributions or expenses indicated.

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