Svarzbein Campaign Contributions on Agenda
Okay expect the political deck to start shuffling soon. Today District Attorney Jaime Esparza made it official that he wasn't going to run for reelection and would be retiring.
That has long been rumored along with State Rep Joe Moody being rumored to jump ship and run for District Attorney to replace Esparza.
That is going to leave Moody's seat open. Current City Rep Peter Svarzbein raises money like nobody's business and is likely thinking about running for state rep, except that would mean he'd have to resign to run.
But if you look at today's city council agenda, almost a full year after his reelection, City Rep Svarzbein is reporting three $1000 campaign contributions. I doubt he had debt from his last campaign run, so its interesting that he's still raising money to the extent that he has contributions so large that he has to report them.
Its also interesting because Svarzbein has never had to run in a partisan race before and it is unknown how he'd do in a partisan race, especially given what a complete and total failure the trolly has been despite the city's constant effort to try to get people to ride it. Thats probably why its almost always free to ride that thing. The minute you charge for it, people realize they don't want to pay money to go on a slow trolley with no app, clearly marked stops, that is really slow, and doesn't control the lights.
So are these contributions from such high profile people as a local developer and an attorney involved with the Duranguito issue. Its an interesting group of people to be taking a contribution from at such an interesting time.
Later I'll talk about the buzz of who is considering a mayoral bid...
That has long been rumored along with State Rep Joe Moody being rumored to jump ship and run for District Attorney to replace Esparza.
That is going to leave Moody's seat open. Current City Rep Peter Svarzbein raises money like nobody's business and is likely thinking about running for state rep, except that would mean he'd have to resign to run.
But if you look at today's city council agenda, almost a full year after his reelection, City Rep Svarzbein is reporting three $1000 campaign contributions. I doubt he had debt from his last campaign run, so its interesting that he's still raising money to the extent that he has contributions so large that he has to report them.
Its also interesting because Svarzbein has never had to run in a partisan race before and it is unknown how he'd do in a partisan race, especially given what a complete and total failure the trolly has been despite the city's constant effort to try to get people to ride it. Thats probably why its almost always free to ride that thing. The minute you charge for it, people realize they don't want to pay money to go on a slow trolley with no app, clearly marked stops, that is really slow, and doesn't control the lights.
So are these contributions from such high profile people as a local developer and an attorney involved with the Duranguito issue. Its an interesting group of people to be taking a contribution from at such an interesting time.
Later I'll talk about the buzz of who is considering a mayoral bid...
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