Yes on Measure J
No on Measure J - Bay101
No on Measure J - Friends
No on Measure J - Ind

Yes on Measure D - San Mateo's High School District Bond Measure (2000)

Yes on Measure Q - Redwood City's Proposed Development at Pete's Harbor (2004)

Yes on Pacifica Measure E
No on Pacifica Measure E

Now hold your horses, Mrs. Lempert. Let’s look at campaign contributions for ex-San Mateo County Supervisor, Mike Nevin, who ran against Dr. Yee. Nevin’s contributions include $3,000 from Bay Meadows developer Thomas P. Sullivan, $3,000 from Bay Meadows developer, Christopher Meany, $3,150 from their company, Wilson Meany Sullivan, LP, $1,250 from Hollywood Park Land Company (owned by Terry Fancher’s Stockbridge Capital which also owns Bay Meadows), a trifling $200 from Terry Fancher himself but a most generous $6,600 from “housewife,” Catherine Fancher. Follow the money? Uh, huh.

Mrs. Lempert took us for a bit of a gallop, too, when she provided her history of the 1995 defeat of a 50-table card room at Bay Meadows (Measure J). The truth is there was no massive uproar from San Mateans over this issue until four weeks prior to the November, 1995 election. On October 5, 1995, a $2,000 consultation fee was paid to lobbyist Ed McGovern. An “independent” campaign then spent almost $200,000 to defeat Measure J by scaring San Mateans into believing there would be tremendous crime and traffic if the measure passed. Where does that money trail lead? To San Jose’s Bay 101 card room and to lobbyist and local Democratic Party “consultant,” Ed McGovern.

McGovern’s ties to pro-development, anti-community campaigns are legendary. He ran Mike Nevin’s State Senate campaign, the “Recycle Bay Meadows” campaign, the “Yes on Measure Q” (Redwood City’s Marina Shores) campaign, and the “Yes on Measure E” campaign (Pacifica’s Trammell-Crow quarry site). He is a paid lobbyist for the Bay 101 card room and, notably, Norcal Waste, the focus of an ethics scandal involving San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzalez.

Mrs. Lempert peppers her article with the word “sleazy” - intentionally conjoining the term with gaming. Rein in the pejoratives, Mrs. Lempert, and use them where they are more appropriate - for politicians and their hired guns who choose to intentionally manipulate the public with misleading and false information.

Stockbridge has made sizable donations to other local politicians and to the Democratic and Republican parties, allowing those parties to dole out funds to candidates as needed. Click here to view contributions.

San Mateo City Council members do receive campaign contributions from others who will benefit from development at Bay Meadows. This includes various union groups and union representatives, construction companies such as BKF which worked on the practice track development, real estate companies, banks, developers, land owners, and the like. Click on links below to see City Council contributions.

Note: Information presented on our web site is primarily from public sources, including the San Mateo City Clerk’s office and the State of California’s web site.

Recommended web sites for additional information on campaign contributions include:

www.opensecrets.org
www.followthemoney.org
www.city-data.com
http://www.city-data.com/elec/elec-SAN-MATEO-CA.html for local campaign donors
www.cal-access.ss.ca.gov