{"id":148482,"date":"2026-02-03T03:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148482\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:21:06","slug":"sakai-makes-fundraising-comeback-in-bexar-county-judge-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148482\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakai makes fundraising comeback in Bexar County judge race"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being outraised<\/a> by his Democratic primary challenger in the final quarter of 2025, Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai<\/a> made a comeback last month.<\/p>\n

Campaign finance data must be reported more frequently right before an election, and reports covering Jan. 1 through Jan. 22 were due Monday for state and county candidates.<\/p>\n

Sakai\u2019s indicated<\/a> that he\u2019d raised $176,000 in that span \u2014 more than triple what former Mayor Ron Nirenberg<\/a> raised over the same time period. Sakai spent about $200,000 and reported $483,000 on hand as of Jan. 22.<\/p>\n

By comparison, Nirenberg raised $52,000 between Jan. 1 and Jan. 22, spent $86,000 and reported $347,000 on hand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sakai\u2019s haul includes $52,000 worth of in-kind advertising from Carmen and Joe Gamez, owners of Gamez\u00a0Law Firm, to sponsor billboard ads on his behalf. He also received a $75,000 contribution from the Texas Association of Realtors PAC.<\/p>\n

Nirenberg\u2019s includes a pledged contribution of $25,000 from local philanthropist Harvey Najim, who already loaned the campaign $100,000 and contributed a $35,000 check on the last reports.<\/p>\n

Unlike city offices, there are no contribution limits for county candidates, so individual donors are free to give as much as they want to a single candidate.<\/p>\n

Early voting for the March 3 primary runs Feb. 17 through Feb. 27. Candidates will report their fundraising once more in this race, eight days out from the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being outraised by his Democratic primary challenger in the final quarter of 2025, Bexar County Judge Peter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28944,8519,32343,3025,8774,82,84,83,92,3028],"class_list":{"0":"post-148482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-2026-bexar-county-judge-race","9":"tag-2026-election","10":"tag-march-3-primary","11":"tag-peter-sakai","12":"tag-ron-nirenberg","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","15":"tag-san-antonio-news","16":"tag-top-story","17":"tag-typedaily"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}