{"id":180094,"date":"2026-02-25T20:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180094\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:04:32","slug":"nirenberg-fundraising-surges-in-final-stretch-of-county-judge-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180094\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirenberg fundraising surges in final stretch of county judge race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their final fundraising reports before the March 3 primary election, former San Antonio Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/profile\/ron-nirenberg-2026-candidate-for-bexar-county-judge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Nirenberg<\/a> more than doubled incumbent Bexar County Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/profile\/peter-sakai-2026-candidate-for-bexar-county-judge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Peter Sakai<\/a>\u2018s haul.<\/p>\n<p>The two well-known Democrats are competing for their party\u2019s nomination, with the winner an odds-on favorite to carry the blue county in November.<\/p>\n<p>Between Jan. 23 and Feb. 22 \u2014 roughly the month leading up to early voting \u2014Nirenberg raised $168,000, spent $211,000 and <a href=\"https:\/\/edocs.bexar.org\/elections\/ce02232026ronnirenberg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported $305,000 on hand<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sakai raised $76,000, spent nearly $200,000 and <a href=\"https:\/\/edocs.bexar.org\/elections\/ce02232026peterasakai.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported another $340,000 on hand<\/a>. That\u2019s including <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=3845baa9e7672a9eb5e9569d4&amp;id=8815891f91&amp;e=0e4ffa370a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a big fundraiser<\/a> he held at Mi Familia on Feb. 17.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zui7G11XSy4&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fsanantonioreport.org%2F&amp;source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WATCH: Sakai &amp; Nirenberg face off in San Antonio Report debate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are no contribution limits on county-level campaigns, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/nirenberg-outraises-sakai-in-bexar-county-judge-race-but-incumbent-has-more-cash\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/nirenberg-outraises-sakai-in-bexar-county-judge-race-but-incumbent-has-more-cash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">same handful of donors<\/a> continue to prop up both Nirenberg and Sakai\u2019s fundraising reports.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Nirenberg has raised about $577,000 for the race, to Sakai\u2019s $506,000. <\/p>\n<p>That includes money raised on three reports covering July 1 through Feb. 22.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/author\/andrea-drusch\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BC0E54A7-FB96-47C4-B1BE-28F5F26879DE-80x80.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrea Drusch writes about local government for the San Antonio Report. She&#8217;s covered politics in Washington, D.C., and Texas for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, National Journal and Politico.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/author\/andrea-drusch\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Andrea Drusch\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In their final fundraising reports before the March 3 primary election, former San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28944,8519,3025,72268,82,84,83,3028],"class_list":{"0":"post-180094","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-peter-sakai","11":"tag-ron-nireberg","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","14":"tag-san-antonio-news","15":"tag-typedaily"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180094","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=180094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}