Big Money Pours Into South Bay Supervisor Race

The race to fill a vacant seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is entering the home stretch – and an onslaught of high-dollar contributions is powering the candidates’ final sprint toward a July 1 voting deadline.

Big-dollar checks are flowing into campaign accounts daily, including a recent eye-watering $250,000 contribution from an electrical workers union to a committee supporting Democrat Paloma Aguirre and $50,000 from the developer of a controversial proposed landfill to a committee supporting Republican John McCann.

Political analyst Mason Herron, who tracks local campaign spending, said he can barely keep up with it all. “Money is flowing in thick and fast – and confusingly,” he said.

With multiple committees raising, spending and transferring money to one another,