Egan outspends school board candidates

Christine Carrillo

Maintaining the fund-raising pace he set entering the November

school board race, Trustee Tom Egan’s final campaign filings this

week show that he bested the other three candidates whose reports

were available Tuesday.

Campaign filings reporting the period between Oct. 20 and Dec. 31

were due Friday, though extensions through this Friday were granted.

Just as Egan led the Newport-Mesa Unified school board candidates

in the last filing period that ended Oct. 19, his latest statement

showed he ran the most expensive campaign in 2002 at $20,690,

according to statements obtained Tuesday from the county’s Registrar

of Voters.

The campaign statement for Egan’s opponent for the seventh

district, then-incumbent Wendy Leece, was not available Tuesday as

the Registrar of Voters granted her an extension until Friday.

However, during the last filing period in October, Leece had raised

$4,200, a little more than a thousand behind Egan’s then-total of

$5,422.

Serene Stokes, the fourth district incumbent who ran against

challengers Ed Loyd and Ron Winship, came in about $4,000 behind

Egan, receiving a total of $16,203 for the year. Statements for Loyd

and Winship were unavailable Tuesday.

Linda Sneen, who ran unopposed in the second district, reported

receiving a total of $1,259 for the year, all of which she spent.

Shelby Cove, who challenged incumbent Judy Franco in the fifth

district, reported receiving $1,505 and did not report any

expenditures. Franco’s statement was also unavailable.