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# Measure Y supporters shell out for campaign
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/measure-y-supporters-shell-out-for-campaign/
- Published: 2010-10-23T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-17T18:52:24.000Z
- Description: CAMPAIGN ROUNDUP DOWNTOWN — Supporters of Measure Y, the proposed half percent sales tax increase, have donated $229, 541 to the campaign to pass the tax hike, compared with just $5,708 raised by opponents of the measure.
- Author: news
- Tags: Government & Politics, News, bob holbrook, city council, gleam davis, Politics, ted winterer, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 14:04

CAMPAIGN ROUNDUP

DOWNTOWN — Supporters of Measure Y, the proposed half percent sales tax increase, have donated $229, 541 to the campaign to pass the tax hike, compared with just $5,708 raised by opponents of the measure.

With 10 days to go before election day, the pro-Measure Y campaign has nearly $91,000 on hand, according to a campaign disclosure document filed on Wednesday.

Many elected leaders have already agreed to spend half of the estimated $12 million Measure Y would raise on public schools, a pledge that has brought in big donations from pro-schools groups.

Big donors include the Santa Monica Malibu Action Committee for K-12 ($35,000), the Franklin Elementary PTA ($20,000), the Roosevelt Elementary PTA ($14,500) Santa Monica-Malibu Council of PTAs ($13,550) and the Lincoln Elementary PTA ($7,000).

The list of pro-Measure Y donors also includes several companies with recent or pending business with City Hall.

Among them is Hines, the Texas-based developer that is negotiating a development agreement for a mixed-use project at Olympic Boulevard and Stewart Street, which donated $10,000 to the campaign.

Dale Goldsmith, the attorney who recently negotiated a development agreement for bio-tech company Agensys also contributed $5,000 to the Measure Y cause.

Regis Properties donated $5,000, as did the law firm of Harding Kutcher & Kozal (individual attorneys at the firm also kicked in additional donations totaling several thousand dollars).

Southern California Disposal & Recycling Co. donated $15,000, as did the Committee for Safety and Modernization at Santa Monica College.

The top two City Hall officials also are donors to the pro-Measure Y campaign. City Manager Rod Gould contributed $300, and Assistant City Manager Elaine Polachek donated $250.

The No on Y campaign, meanwhile, has primarily been funded by a small group of retailers who sell big ticket items and who have argued a half percent sales tax increase could hurt sales. Donors to the anti-Measure Y effort include Bourget Bros. Building Materials, Readers Fine Jewelers, Carlson’s Appliance, White & Co. Insurance and the Santa Monica Republican Headquarters Committee.

**Candidates cashing their final checks**

As candidates for City Council and school board head into the final stretch, new fundraising figures showed early money leaders had mostly maintained their advantages.

In the race for two-year council seats, Terry O’Day had the most cash with $63,550 raised through mid-October. Gleam Davis had $31,841 and had loaned her campaign an additional $2,500, while Robert Kronovet had raised $8,838 (and loaned his campaign an additional $2,000) and Susan Hartley had $3,605.

In the four-year race, five-term incumbent Bob Holbrook had raised the most, with $58,079, followed by challenger Ted Winterer, who raised $39,750 and loaned his campaign an additional $5,000.

Incumbents Pam O’Connor and Kevin McKeown had raised $28,582 and $27,313, respectively. Challenger Jean McNeil-Wyner had raised $20,488.

In the contest for four school board seats, challenger Nimish Patel had received a record-setting $71,732 by Oct. 16\. Laurie Lieberman had raised $30,961\. The latest disclosure form on record for challenger Chris Bley showed he had raised $25,003.

The incumbents were far behind. Ralph Mechur had raised $8,202 and loaned his campaign an additional $1,000, while Oscar de la Torre had raised $4,000 by the latest filing deadline. School board president Barry Snell raised $2,640.

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