Cashing In and Out

Author

By Matt Potter

Publish Date

Oct. 19, 2011

The former Ron Roberts and Brian Bilbray aide running next year for the seat being given up by retiring county supervisor Pam Slater-Price is off to a big start in campaign contributions. According to a report filed in July and covering the first half of this year, Republican Steve Danon raised $63,980 in cash and $290 in nonmonetary contributions for a total of $64,270. He began the year with $27,723 and spent just $5448, leaving him with a cash war chest of $86,255.

Contributors, many from out of town, included Luce Forward lawyer William Earley ($400); dealer-maker Richard Felago ($500); development consultant Roberta Herdes ($750); Pathway Genomics chief executive James Plante ($500); Connect honcho Duane Roth ($500); pyschiatrist Steve Rahimi of Pacific Clinics, La Habra ($1000); Nena Zosa of Rio Hondo Pediatrics Associates and Noli Zosa of Rio Hondo Medical Group, Long Beach ($1000); wastewater engineer Tim Volz of URS Corporation, Colorado Springs, Colorado ($500); AstraZeneca vice president Brad Rossin of Mendham, New Jersey ($250); project manager John Robert Peterson of JR Peterson & Associates, Walnut Creek ($1000); and Darren Pudgil, PR man for San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders ($250)…Meanwhile, Danon himself was a donor to the campaign fund of Sheriff Bill Gore, the ex-FBI agent and Ruby Ridge veteran who won office last year against Jim Duffy, the son of the late sheriff John Duffy, and a raft of other opponents. Gore began the year with a balance of $19,744 and, during the first six months, collected $14,523 in cash and $1756 worth of in-kind contributions.