CA: Bill Lockyer helps fund wife’s campaign

MediaNews Group ^ | 2/2/10 | Josh Richman

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In what proves to be an interesting follow-up to the question I raised last week about whether and when a candidate’s marriage to another elected official should be noted, Nadia Lockyer announced today that her campaign for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors District 2 seat collected about $168,000 in the latter half of last year – including, she notes, a $75,000 contribution from her husband’s Bill Lockyer for Treasurer re-election campaign.

Bill Lockyer can certainly afford it; his committee had almost $9.4 million in the bank by mid-2009, and raised at least $58,000 more since then. He’s unopposed in the Democratic primary; only state Sen. Mimi Walters, R-Laguna Niguel, has announced her intention to run on the GOP ticket, and she starts at a significant name-recognition deficit compared to the incumbent Lockyer.

Nadia Lockyer says she raised over $237,000 in all of 2009, leaving her at year’s end with cash on hand of $135,000. She also noted she and volunteers (including former state Democratic Party chairman Art Torres) have been walking the district’s precincts to chat with residents and build grassroots support.

“I am so grateful for the support people have shown my campaign,” she said in her release. “When I am Supervisor, I will fight to ensure that southern Alameda County gets a fairer share from our County government in order to maintain public safety in our communities and continued access to programs critical to our families.”

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Leftist Activist Wifey Alert!

http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/files/2009/08/nadia-bio-072009.pdf

LULAC award recipient

MALDEF - she helped bring B1-Bob down.. a member of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez’s legal team and protected the voting rights of new citizens against unfounded accusations.