Missing campaign reports now available

Candidates meet deadline; delay to get paperwork online

Mystery is solved: Chico City Council candidates meet deadline; delay due to time getting reports online.

CHICO » The mystery of a Chico City Council candidate’s missing campaign finance report has been solved, as have a couple of questions about other candidate’s reports.

Deepika Tandon’s report due on Sept. 24 did not appear on the City Clerk’s website until recently.

The report was mailed in on the deadline, she said Friday. The clerk’s office stamped it as received on Sept. 29.

Since Tandon’s report was filed on paper rather than online, someone would have had to scanit to get it on the website. Most of the clerk’s office personnel are working remotely due to the pandemic, so that may have contributed to the delay.

Tandon reported receiving $ 14,971 in contributions, and spending $10,166. A political action committee, Citizens for a Safe Chico, indicated in a separate report that it spent $16,691 to support her

onors who gave her the maximum $ 500 include: Clark Gardner, Chris Giampaoli, James Slater, Slater & Son, Thomas van Overbeek, Chuck Tatreau, Gurmeet Dhillon (Olivehurst), Louis Nava, Eric Rogers, James Ledgerwood, Michele Shover, Kenneth Silliman, Esplanade Mini Storage, Property Pal, Skyway Gas and Food, Harpreet Ghoman, Wayne Cook, Chico Police Officers Association PAC, Information Agent Inc., PBM Supply & MFG.

The full list of donors can be viewed at https://public.netfile.com/ pub2/?AID=chco.

Also in the City Council race, Richard Ober had reported receiving $544 from Audrey Denney, which exceeds the city’s maximum $500 donation.

Her campaign manager Brian Solecki explained in an email earlier this week that Denney had set up a series of automatic campaign donations though ActBlue.

A $55.55 donation went through on Sept. 13 that put Denney over the limit.

Solecki said Ober’s campaign notified her the next day, and the donation was refunded 15 minutes later.

3rd Assembly District

The Secretary of State’s website indicates that no campaign contribution has been received from James Henson, the Paradise Democrat who is challenging incumbent James Gallagher (R-Yuba City).

Henson’s treasurer, Bill Monroe, explained Friday that the form was dropped off at the Butte County Clerk-Recorder’s Office on Sept. 20, and for some reason, hasn’t made it to the Secretary of State’s website yet.

It can be viewed on the Clerk-Recorder’s website however at https://public.netfile.com/ pub2/?aid=BCO.

It shows Henson raised $9,484 in 2020 through Aug. 31, and spent $8,777. He also reported receiving $1,605 in 2019, and spending $1,105.

Gallagher reported receiving $303,938 through Sept. 19 of this year, and spending $195,219.