It’s campaign season and that means it’s time to look at who is giving to candidates and how much they’re spending. Bethania Palma Markus is doing a story on the Pico Rivera City Council election. Sandra Molina has a couple of stories planned for the Santa Fe Springs City Council election and I have one planned for school and water boards.

Unfortunately for the story about the school and water boards, 12 of the 50 candidates in the Whittier area as of Wednesday afternoon had yet to file their state-required campaign finance reports with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s Office. The reports were due in at the office by 5 p.m. Sept. 24 or had to be delivered by mail and postmarked at the same time. Candidates, who are late could face fines of $10 per day they’re late.

Here are the 12 candidates, whose reports weren’t at the county on Wednesday afternoon, and the districts in which they are running:

Victoria (Vikki) Aguilera Garza, Pico Water District
Rachel Canchola, El Rancho Unified School District
Octavio (Toby) Chavez, Orchard Dale Water District
George Edwards: La Habra Heights Water District
Art Escobedo, Los Nietos School District
Andres “Andy” Gonzalez, Pico Water District
Jeff Heintz: La Habra Heights Water District
Marisa B. Hernandez, Los Nietos School District
Estela Machorro, Orchard Dale Water District
Rita Jo Ramirez, El Rancho Unified School District
Margarita L. Rios, Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District
James B. Roybal, Pico Water District.

In the story about the money school and water board candidates are raising, we’ll be reporting which candidates are still late. Hopefully, the number is down by the time we’re ready to report.