This article is incorrect. Lisa Matichak says:

Hello members of the Cuesta Park Neighborhood Association,

I want to apologize for an error in the Mountain View Voice regarding City Council candidates' campaign finances. The Voice reported that I received a $400 donation from CPNA. That is not the case. I had an expense of $400 for an ad in the CPNA newsletter. My form 460 filing clearly shows this as an expense and not a donation. I sincerely apologize for the Voice's error.

Lisa Matichak

I received an 'independent' mailer for Ken Rosenberg, paid for by the Neighborhood Empowerment Coalition, based in Long Beach. Part of the funding is from PG&E while most are from California tribes that I imply as Casino money
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Business as usual. Plausible deniability.
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Thank you "Cuesta Park Neighbor" for your post. I posted a comment here over the weekend but it seems to have disappeared.

So Ellen raised $21,288, the Voice only mentions about $ 3300 in donations, where is the rest? But for other candidates you mention expenses for Ice Cream????? Is this really the complete list, the same date for all candidates reporting? Or did the Voice pick and choose with their endorsements in mind???

Thank you Neighbor for posting the link to the campaign finance public filing of the Neighborhood Empowerment Coalition, based in Long Beach. You are correct that the Indian Tribes that gave the bulk of the money NEC raised in the first six months of this year own casinos (all in So Cal Eastern San Diego area it looks like). It would be great if the Voice could dig a little deeper into what the NEC group actually advocates for. Their website talks in nice-sounding generalities about taking political power out of Sacramento and putting it in local areas, but I think that is also code to use the often-ignored local political process to put through some policy or development proposal that would otherwise see political opposition in more experienced political quarters. The contributors are mostly San Diego County casinos, PG&E and an apartment owners' political PAC. What do they all have in common and what is their interest in Silicon Valley? Would be interesting to know!

Once again - Debolt can't be trusted to get even the simplest of facts correct. In the article he wrote that the city's voluntary expenditure limit is $22,030. And of course he was WRONG. The city's voluntary expenditure limit of $22,689. Now that may not seem like a big difference but it just shows that this guy DOES NOT PAY ATTENTION to facts that are right in front of his face and HE GETS IT WRONG A LOT!

What I know for sure is that I raised three checks for Mercedes Salem's campaign because she is honest, hardworking, and will be great for our city council, and she refunded all three to me to give back to the writers of the checks. Her explanation was that she had already hit her goal of funding for her campaign. As each check was just under the $100 mark that requires reporting (so legally she could have taken the money and not had to report it) she still did not take any of them. How honest is that!

Wouldn't such an honest person be wonderful in our city government, serving on our city council?

Vote for Mercedes! And the other honest ones that are well known for extreme honesty: Lisa Matichak and Jim Neal!