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New Eric Garcetti Super PAC May Not Be So Super: Committee Has Modest Fundraising Goals

April 08 2013
Written by Gene Maddaus.

A new super PAC has formed to support Eric Garcetti in the May 21 mayoral runoff. The Committee for a Safer Los Angeles filed paperwork this week to start raising money. 

 

The committee is being organized by Brian Van Riper, the consultant who ran Joe Buscaino's San Pedro-area City Council campaign. So far the committee appears to draw from Buscaino's donor base. 

"We're just big Eric Garcetti fans doing whatever we can to support him," Van Riper said. 

Van Riper said the committee has modest fundraising goals. By midweek, it had reported raising $95,000. Another independent group, Lots of People Who Support Eric Garcetti for Mayor, began raising money in February. That group has reported raising $533,000 to date. (Read more here.)

 

 

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