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Nothing much has changed since the last filing period for the four Pleasanton Unified School District Board of Trustees candidates’ campaign finance statements as this most recent filing period continues to show similar trends.
The Secretary of State requires campaigns that have raised more than $2,000 in donations to file campaign finance forms known as a Form 460 four times per year – twice during campaign season, along with annual and semiannual reports. All told, available forms list the names of donors and how much they have contributed to a campaign from Jan. 1 to Oct. 19.
One of the most notable trends seen in this past filing period is in the Area 4 race where Hayward educator and Pleasanton native Charlie Jones continued to receive several thousands of dollars in donations during these past two months as his recent filings from Sept. 22 to Oct. 19 show he raised nearly $4,000, which brings his total contributions this year to just under $30,250.
But according to his Form 460, none of the seven contributors from these past few months resided in Pleasanton.
Jones previously received over $13,000 in contributions from the APT, but apart from that a lot of his past donations came from individuals and groups outside of Pleasanton, which continues to be seen in these most recent filings.
His most recent largest donation came from the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Political Action Together Legislative Education Committee, based in Hanover, Md. The committee donated a total of $2,200 to his campaign in October, according to his filings.
The closest contributors Jones saw were an educator in Fremont, who donated $100, and a teacher from Brentwood who also donated $100. Apart from that, Jones saw a $750 donation from the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club PAC, based in Oakland and a $1,000 donation from Ever Flores, a school counselor in Santa Rosa.
His opponent’s — former Hearst Elementary School administrative secretary Jen Flynn — campaign filings show a completely different story. According to Flynn’s recent filings, she raised nearly $3,800 from July 1 to Sept. 21, which brought her campaign’s total to a dollar short of $9,800.
And unlike Jones, 19 of the 21 contributors listed in her recent filings reside in Pleasanton — the other two live in Oakland and Alamo. Most of the contributions Flynn received ranged from $100 to $140 with the largest donation being $250.
As of publication date, Area 3 trustee candidate and PUSD parent Donalyn Harris has not filed any Form 460 or other contribution reports.
Her opponent, Area 3 incumbent Kelly Mokashi, on the other hand has recently filed the contributions she received from Aug. 20 to Sept. 19, but those continued to not be much.
According to Mokashi’s filings, she raised an additional $651 bringing her total campaign contributions up to $2,751. During this most recent period, her largest contribution was $501 from Karen Lord-Eyewe who teaches Spanish at Amador Valley High School.
She only received two other donations totaling $150 combined.
However, according to more recently filed Form 460’s on Oct. 24, the Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce showed its support for Mokashi with a $500 donation while the Association of Pleasanton Teachers Political Action Committee showed it’s support with a $2,967 donation earlier this October and a separate $2,000 donation from last week.
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