80% of Stoltz Contributions from Houston Billionaire

Sunday morning District 6 candidate Eric Stoltz posted a facebook message about the need to "address campaign finance if we want a future that involves our community and not large campaign donors".

In a shockingly hypocritical finance report, 80% of Stoltz's contributions come from one person - an out-of-town billionaire from Houston.

This really is an about-face for a guy that has been talking about "bringing community voices to City Hall".

In the post that Stoltz was being critical of Ordaz's contributions he featured a screenshot of a report to council about regarding her campaign donations. She had a fundraiser thrown for her by Latino business leaders in this community.

Stoltz would have very happily taken their money if they had given him their support. Hell many of them were realtors and he competed with Ordaz for that endorsement.

Now that the 8 day finance reports are out we get a clearer picture of the fact that while Stoltz has been talking up addressing campaign finance, he very happily look a check from an out-of-town billionaire for an amount that accounts for 80% of the money raised in this reporting period by his campaign.

The Houston Billionaire is Max Grossman's Sugar Daddy who made a large contribution in the county judge's race not too long ago.

He's also been the main political contributor to another race on the westside. The issue is simple.

Duranguito.

Stoltz's main issues have been stuff that have nothing to do with the lower valley or the eastside like Duranguito, a TIRZ on the westside, and protecting trails for El Paso's upper-crusters to hike on.

Here's the post where he was talking about campaign finance and "community voices".

Here's a look at his total contributions this reporting cycle:

As you can see he raised $6,320.00.

Of that total, $5,000 of the contributions came from the Houston billionaire.

So apparently the "community voices" that Stoltz wants to bring to city hall are from a wealthy community in Houston.

The political reality is that you have to take money to make a campaign work. Its the system we have and there's no way around it until there are some serious campaign finance reforms.

And under our current system, as I have said before, you have to have leaders that will be able to tell campaign donors "no".

But when your campaign is almost entirely funded by one wealthy billionaire from out of town, that should throw up some serious red flags, especially when they are talking about out of one side of their mouth about finance reform.