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<\/a>2026 Fresno City Council Candidate fundraising
\nDistrict 1<\/p>\nThe maximum individual contribution under state law is $5,900 per election cycle. Singh, also executive director of the Jakara Movement, received the max from one contributor this reporting period, Jasdeep Atwal, a southern California attorney.<\/p>\n
Several of Singh\u2019s contributions come from business owners in the Fresno area. He also received $2,000 from the carpenters union.<\/p>\n
Fuentes, also a federal prosecutor, received the maximum from the Fresno City Employees Association PAC, the union representing city workers. He also received $5,000 each from the California Real Estate PAC, the Central Valley Council, the Fresno Teachers Association PAC, and Karen Spencer \u2014 a frequent contributor to local campaigns \u2014 along with her husband, developer Richard F. Spencer.<\/p>\n
Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer contributed $2,000 left over from his 2024 campaign account to Fuentes.<\/p>\n
District 3<\/p>\n
District 3 candidates are seeking to replace Miguel Arias, who is termed out.<\/p>\n
Arambula has loaned himself $25,000 for his campaign. He received the maximum this period from the FCEA PAC and Nadezhda Sargsyan, a Fresno dentist.<\/p>\n
The FTA PAC contributed $5,000 to Arambula instead of Thomas, the Fresno Unified trustee. Andrew Levine, a fellow Fresno Unified trustee and Fresno State lecturer, contributed $100 to Arambula.<\/p>\n
The carpenters union contributed $5,000 to Arambula.<\/p>\n
Arambula is also supporting several other candidates with his campaign funds, including judicial candidates Deidre Adams, Jamie Xiong-Vang, and Rosalina Nunez.<\/p>\n
Several of Thomas\u2019 contributors are in the $100 to $200 range from local donors. Fresno Unified trustee colleague Elizabeth Jonasson Rosas contributed $500.<\/p>\n
The plumbers and pipefitters union PAC contributed $4,000. Blue Ocean Development America, a Clovis developer founded by Sylvesta Hall, contributed $3,000.<\/p>\n
Apodaca\u2019s top contributors are Nathan Magsig for Supervisor 2028 ($2,500), Brooke Ashjian of Seal Rite Paving ($2,500), and Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp ($2,500). Magsig is running for state Senate this year.<\/p>\n
Alvarez\u2019s top contributor is the Central Valley Council at $1,400.<\/p>\n
District 5<\/p>\n
Vang is running for re-election after winning a special election last year for the vacant seat.<\/p>\n
He has one maximum contributor this period, the FCEA PAC. The Fresno Firefighters Legislative Action Committee, which can give more as a small contributor committee, gave $10,000. Nubchi Thao, a Clovis doctor, gave $5,000.<\/p>\n
Parra received the maximum from the California Real Estate PAC. She also received $5,000 from Kure Medical Solutions Inc. in Clovis.<\/p>\n
Leon Barraza\u2019s figures include a $10,000 loan from his wife, Elsa Leon.<\/p>\n
Jonasson Rosas, who ran for the seat in the 2025 special election, filed paperwork with the city clerk\u2019s office to raise funds for the 2030 election.<\/p>\n
District 7<\/p>\n
Gurm also loaned $15,000 to his campaign. He received the maximum contribution from the FCEA PAC. He also received $5,000 each this period from the California Real Estate PAC; Sikhjit Chahal, a retired Fresno resident; and Baljinder Grewal of Grewal Farms.<\/p>\n
Martinez Lott also received a maximum contribution from the FCEA PAC.<\/p>\n
Gurm and Martinez Lott received contributions from the FTA PAC, $2,500 each.<\/p>\n
Rassamni received only two contributions: the maximum from Karen Spencer and $500 from Gurdip Sangha, owner of Tandoori Night.<\/p>\n
District 7 Councilmember Nelson Esparza is termed out. He is running for the Board of Equalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disparities are emerging between the top campaign fundraiser and No. 2 in four competitive Fresno City Council races.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-289819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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