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Shasta election official Clint Curtis falsely claims on his Facebook page that \u201ca lot\u201d of his opponent Joanna Francescut\u2019s donations to her campaign came from San Francisco. Screenshot from a video posted on Curtis\u2019 Facebook page<\/p>\n
The claim<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of [Joanna Francescut\u2019s] funding is coming from San Francisco.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The context<\/p>\n
In recent weeks, Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis has made claims on his campaign Facebook page that his opponent, former Assistant ROV Joanna Francescut, has received significant amounts of funding from San Francisco for her campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a video<\/a> posted on May 1, Curtis discussed the funding going into the race for ROV, which will be voted on in the primary election on June 2. He explained that Francescut has received about double the amount of donations he has, which is true<\/a>. But he also stated that \u201ca lot of her funding is coming from San Francisco.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n In another Facebook video<\/a> posted about three weeks later, Curtis compared the upcoming election to a special election last year, where California voters passed Proposition 50<\/a>, a controversial measure designed to weaken Republican voter representation through gerrymandering. He said San Francisco stole voters\u2019 representation in Congress, and \u201cnow they\u2019re trying to steal this election as well, pouring tons of money into it for someone they know will follow their lead.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The analysis<\/p>\n Curtis\u2019 claims about Francescut receiving significant donations from San Francisco are false.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to publicly available campaign finance records, Francescut has received just over $257 from San Francisco donors so far, making up only about 0.2% of her donation total of just over $125,000.<\/p>\n