Campaign Financing Sources for Efren Carillio - Sonoma County

Hi West County friends:

Here is information that is very important to pass around. If you are sympathetic to the contents, please pass it around to all your friends.



I hope all of you have or will vote for Rue Furch for Supervisor. Rue Furch is the person who will do all she can to sustain the wonders of the West County. Her opponent has given no indication that he is even knowledgeable about the issues facing our sensitive environment.

When I started doing the work I do to protect the environment, I met Rue early on and was impressed with the way she works with people and her deep knowledge of the issues. At that time, when we were both getting started, her opponent was a toddler.

He is a bright young man who can learn a lot over the coming years....BUT HE IS NOT READY NOW!! It is also troublesome that he appears to be keeping company with those who prefer to profit financially from our vast West County resources. (See below for a list of his financial supporters.)

It is critical that each of us do what we can to get Rue elected. Please help by sending this message to everyone you know in the Fifth Supervisorial district. Thank you.

Brenda Adelman
Russian River Watershed Protection Committee
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+$55,000 in 10 day from developers/contractors to elect Carrillo
SOURCE: SWHWG Newsservice

In the last 10 days, an Independent Expenditure Committee (IE) called "Citizens for Transportation Funding" has mailed out 3 hit-pieces against Rue Furch. But if you think people vote with both their ballot and their checkbook, consider who pumped thousands of dollars to support Carrillo at the last minute:

Berg Holdings $22,500
-Skip Berg is the developer who wants to create a commercial complex at Port Sonoma, open a giant gravel mine along the Eel River, developer of the Infineon Raceway, and is a business associate of Doug Bosco.

Pro Transport $10,000
-a bit of a mystery;an ambulance/medical transport company, during a time of a pitched battle for the ambulance service franchise in Sonoma County.

Syar Industries $8,000
-the last of the big Russian River gravel miners, who got the Board of Supervisors to overturn the Planning Commission shut down of current terrace mining. Rue led the charge on the Commission that led to a 3/2 vote by the Commission to end terrace mining. Syar now wants to expand in-stream gravel mining in addition to continuing terrace mining.

Sonoma County Alliance PAC $6,000
-the key business group that includes developers, builders, lenders, real estate, contractors, corporate ag, and so on.

Doug Bosco $5,000
Former Congressman, early sponsor of Carrillo, and business associate of Skip Berg in gravel, development, and exporting north bay garbage to Nevada (no joke, comment if you want me to start a seperate thread on that)

Eric Koenigshofer $2,000
-political mentor of Carrillo and lobbiest for Preservation Ranch

North Coast Builders Exchange $1,600
-self evident

Nor. Calif. Engineering Contractors $1,600
-self evident

Kendall Jackson $1,666

All this info is public record at the County Elections office.

Both Rue and Carrillo have got IE Committees working on their behalf, and both run seperately from the campaigns. Rue has strong support from unions and environmentalists; Carrillo has strong support from developers/investors. The two candidates both sound green, but the development money and progressive money knows which has voted green.

These groups/organizations have chosen the candidates that best fit their agenda for the future of Sonoma County. So how do individual voters see that choice?

If developers/gravel miners/timber are lining up behind one candidate, and
unions/environmentalists/human service groups behind another, who would you choose to stand with?