The City of Costa Mesa has record of campaign contirbutions and expenditures for the years 2011-2013.

These records are more accurate than what is provided by the California Secretary of State because they contain ALL filings whereas the SOS database provides only electronic filings.

 

Costa Mesa elected officials campaign disclosures statements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The California Secretary of State provides ONLY electronically provided filings i.e., it might show $25,000.00 in campaign donations but when you look at the City of Costa Mesa's campaign disclosures you find the amount was actually $100,000.00.

 

 

 

 

 

Search any year of campaign by following the link:

 

Before you look for something, be sure to set the EXPENDITURE CODE to “ANY”. To do this click the arrow key on the right side of box. A drop down menu will appear. Scroll down to the bottom of that menu to find -ANY- and select it.
 

Fill in the Recipient/Payee name

Then hit the “SEARCH” button

 

Your query will return more hits with less input of information. Example of input in search box;

Righeimer returns 87 records

James Righeimer returns 1 records

Jim Righeimer returns 21 records 

 

You can also search by Political Action Committee PAC Number in the appropriate box at the bottom of the page.

 

2012
Election Cycle Orange County
Local Campaign Finance Research Report
Authored By:Chris Emami
Pages 106-130 provide Costa Mesa election statistics.

 

Creating a Political Action Committee a.k.a. PAC provides annonimity to each donor. By law these non-profit PAC's are not required to reveal donor names, only the monetary contributions. This allows for all donor names to be withheld and anonomous to the public.