Community college campaign contributions

The Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Dis­trict is one of the few re­main­ing loc­al agen­cies that does not re­quire can­did­ates for of­fice and pro­moters of bond au­thor­iz­a­tion meas­ures to re­port their con­tri­bu­tions in search­able elec­tron­ic format.

To il­lu­min­ate the polit­ic­al in­flu­ences on the dis­trict’s $5.7-bil­lion con­struc­tion pro­gram, The Times ob­tained pa­per fil­ings for ten trust­ee can­did­ates and three suc­cess­ful bond au­thor­iz­a­tion meas­ures. The Times ex­trac­ted the Sched­ule A forms that list cam­paign con­tri­bu­tions and con­ver­ted those in­to elec­tron­ic re­cords. Those re­cords show that most of the funds for the bond meas­ures came from con­tract­ors who re­ceived work on the pro­jects. Trust­ees re­ceived most of their funds from col­lege em­ploy­ees and their uni­ons as well as con­tract­ors.

Read: The com­plete Times in­vest­ig­a­tion

Data­base: The polit­ic­al money be­hind the re­build­ing of the L.A. Com­munity Col­lege Dis­trict

— Doug Smith

Feb. 25, 2011
Kelly G. Candaele has been a Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege trust­ee since 1997. In his 2001, 2005 and 2009 reelec­tion cam­paigns, he raised $183,350 mostly from col­lege em­ploy­ees, labor and con­tract­ors.
Feb. 25, 2011
Mona Field was elec­ted to the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Board of Trust­ees in 1999. In her 2003 and 2007 reelec­tion cam­paigns, she raised $89,407.
Feb. 25, 2011
War­ren T. Fur­utani was elec­ted to the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Board of Trust­ees in 1999. For his 2003 and 2007 reelec­tion cam­paigns, Fur­utani raised $115,887 in con­tri­bu­tions. mostly from labor and con­tract­ors
Feb. 25, 2011
Geor­gia L. Mer­cer, cur­rent pres­id­ent of the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Dis­trict Board of Trust­ees, was ap­poin­ted to the board in 1998 and won elec­tion three times. In her 2003 and 2007 reelec­tion cam­paigns she raised a total of $182,104.
Feb. 25, 2011
Tina Park was elec­ted to the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Dis­trict Board of Trust­ees in 2009, de­feat­ing trust­ee An­gela Red­dock’s reelec­tion bid. Park raised $50,821 in con­tri­bu­tions, none of it from dis­trict con­tract­ors or em­ploy­ees.
Feb. 25, 2011
Nancy Pearl­man was elec­ted to the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Board of Trust­ees in 2001. In that race and her 2005 and 2009 reelec­tion cam­paigns she raised $188,741, mostly from col­lege em­ploy­ees and their uni­ons.
Feb. 25, 2011
An­gela Red­dock was ap­poin­ted to the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Board of Trust­ees in 2007. She raised $302,951 in her un­suc­cess­ful bid to re­tain the seat in 2009.
Feb. 25, 2011
Miguel San­ti­ago was ap­poin­ted to the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Board in 2008. He raised $273,049 for his reelec­tion cam­paign in 2009.
Feb. 25, 2011
Sylvia Scott-Hayes won elec­tion to the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Board of Trust­ees in 1999. She raised $81,175 in con­tri­bu­tions for her 2003 and 2007 reelec­tion cam­paigns.
Feb. 25, 2011
Mi­chael Wax­man was elec­ted to the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Board in 2001 and reelec­ted in 2005. In his two cam­paigns he re­ceived $127,349 in con­tri­bu­tions.
Feb. 25, 2011
Pro­pos­i­tion A, au­thor­iz­ing $980 in bor­row­ing, was ap­proved by voters in 2001, the first of three bond au­thor­iz­a­tions in the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Dis­trict’s $5.7-bil­lion re­build­ing pro­gram. Its back­ers raised $606,984 in con­tri­bu­tions.
Feb. 25, 2011
Pro­pos­i­tion AA, ap­proved by voters in 2003, was the second of three bond au­thor­iz­a­tions in the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Dis­trict’s $5.7-bil­lion re­build­ing pro­gram. It au­thor­ized $1.2 bil­lion in bor­row­ing.
Feb. 25, 2011
Meas­ure J, the third and largest bond au­thor­iz­a­tion in the Los Angeles Com­munity Col­lege Dis­trict’s $5.7-bil­lion con­struc­tion pro­gram, was ap­proved by the voters in 2008. The cam­paign re­ceived $1.85 mil­lion in con­tri­bu­tions, mostly from con­tract­ors. It au­thor­ized $3.5 bil­lion in bor­row­ing.
The Co­ali­tion for Com­munity Col­lege Ex­cel­lence was formed in 2009 to col­lect­ively sup­port the reelec­tion bids of four in­cum­bents, Kelly G. Candaele, Nancy Pearl­man, An­gela J. Red­dock and Miguel San­ti­ago. It raised $340,350.
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