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Election campaign contributions top the $1 million mark

On April 8, campaign finance reports for City Council and mayoral candidates were due. Forty-four people are running for City office; as a group, they have collected $1,086,268 in campaign contributions, not including loans candidates have made to themselves. Below is each candidate’s total contribution amount for the January 15-April 8 period as recorded in Campaign Finance reports filed with the City.

Several candidates, Don Castillo in District 5, and Rhett Smith, Michael Idrogo, Julie Oldham, and Everett Caldwell, who are running for mayor, did not file contribution reports.

Final reports are due eight days before the election, April 30. The Current will list contribution amounts from that report as well as notable contributors as a web extra in the May 5 edition.

To see pdf files of the reports, go to sanantonio.gov/clerk/elections

Candidate / Total contributions ($)

* designates incumbent

District 1

*Roger Flores – 9,665

District 2

David Arevalo – (loaned self $1,000)

Sheila McNeil – 5,823

*Joel Williams – 10,020

District 3

*Ron Segovia – 29,761

Roland Gutierrez – 8,654

District 4

*Richard Perez – 29,903

Ruby Resendez – (loaned self $300)

District 5

*Patti Radle – 12,760

Raymond Zavala – 0

Don Castillo – Did not file

District 6

Dominick Dina – 2,865

Pete Galaviz – 500

Michael Gonzalez – 0

Delicia Herrera – 2,838

Ray Lopez – 14,115

Ray Ramon – 500

Larry Romo – 5,684

Saul Santos – 1,528

District 7

Renette Alecozay – 3,095

Elena Guajardo – 20,649

Noel Suniga – 9,450

Theodore Kenyon – 550

Ernie MacDonald – 2,698 (includes $500 loan to self)

Fred Rangel – 2,400

Cynthia Test – 6,055

Jim Valdez – 3,850

District 8

Carlos Cardenas – 0

Bert Cecconi – (loaned self $25,000)

*Art Hall – 22,301

Mike Keogh – 6,050

Gabe Perales – 2,000

District 9

Weston Martinez – 875

Kevin Wolff – 39,280

District 10

*Chip Haass – 8,600

Joel Hernandez – 0

Steven Schaeur – 10,838

Mayor

Julián Castro – 166,896

Phil Hardberger – 200,744

Carroll Schubert – 446,321

This article appears in Apr 20-26, 2005.