That's right. By the Nov. 4 general election, when Long Beach voters shot down the Measure I infrastructure improvement parcel tax (which required a two-thirds vote), the campaign supporting it had raised $719,620, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday at the City Clerk's office.
From Oct. 30 to Nov. 4, in the last days berfore the election, the Rebuild Long Beach campaign raised an additional $65,500 on top of the $657,000 it had raised over the previous two or three months.
This last infusion of money came from 11 mostly large contributions, including $5,000 from the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach; $13,333.34 from Lyon Apartment Companies of Newport Beach and $6,666.66 from essentially the same contributor, Lyon Management Group; and $10,000 from KUD International LLC, as well as $5,000 from its president and CEO, Marvin Suomi.
Meanwhile, the City Clerk's Web site doesn't list any new contributions for the No on Measure I campaign, presumably because it didn't raise any more money past Oct. 29. Its last reported contributions were a comparatively miniscule $5,368.
To see the full campaign finance summaries and contribution lists, go to the City Clerk's campaign finance site.
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Perhaps the mayor is too embarassed to show his face to the many donors who were strong armed and duped into financing his failed tax scheme.