Candidates File Financial Reports; Patterson Taps S&Ls; for Help

As he did in his campaigns for Congress, former Rep. Jerry M. Patterson has turned to savings banks and bankers for financial support, this time in his race for county supervisor.

But campaign finance reports, required by law and filed Monday, show Patterson raised only $14,572 from Jan. 1 through March 17, compared to $33,444 for Anaheim Mayor Donald R. Roth and $33,359 for Orange Mayor James H. Beam, his two major opponents in the 4th Supervisorial District race.

The contributions of the three candidates for the supervisorial seat that includes Anaheim, Buena Park, Orange and La Palma pale in comparison to those of Supervisor Bruce Nestande, who two weeks ago switched from running for lieutenant governor to the race for secretary of state. Nestande reported raising $166,762 in the reporting period, the largest amount raised for any candidate in the county.

In another race, Sheriff Brad Gates, who is seeking a fourth term, reported receiving $5,076 since Jan. 1 to add to a $164,910 surplus he had at the end of 1985. But Gates has spent $55,072 since the first of the year, reducing his surplus to $114,914.

Gates’ Opponent Collects $8,875

Only one of the two candidates opposing Gates had filed a campaign statement for the March reporting period by the time the registrar’s office closed. Linda Lea Calligan, an Orange County sheriff’s sergeant running for her boss’s job, reported collecting $8,875 and spending $8,792.

In the supervisor’s race, Roth’s contributions included $2,000 from Regency Outdoor Advertising Co. on Feb. 5 and $500 from Foster & Kleiser, another billboard advertising firm, on Feb. 24.

Last year billboard firms or their employees contributed about $10,000 to three of the five Anaheim council members, with Roth getting the most, $5,750.

Regency last month tried to get Anaheim to drop its ban on billboards along freeways running through the city. Roth said he was leaning toward ending the ban because it would mean signs elsewhere in the city would be removed as a trade-off. The measure never got to a vote because one of the council members originally leaning toward ending the ban switched his position on Feb. 11, providing three votes against Regency.

Foster & Kleiser, which did not support having more billboard signs, contributed to Roth’s campaign after the issue was dead.

Four weeks ago, Beam attacked Roth’s handling of the billboard controversy and urged him to return the money to the companies, a suggestion the Anaheim mayor laughed off. He denied that the contributions influenced him at all in his consideration of the matter.

Savings and Loan Donations

Patterson’s financial statement reported a $1,500 contribution from American Diversified Savings Bank in Costa Mesa and $1,600 from Mercury Savings & Loan Assn. in Huntington Beach. He reported receiving another $1,600 from Leonard Shane and $500 from William Shane, both executives of the Mercury bank.

Patterson, a Democratic congressman for 10 years until his defeat in 1984 at the hands of Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Garden Grove), was a member of the House Banking Committee in Congress and a strong supporter of savings and loan institutions, which sometimes were at odds with commercial banks. Savings banks contributed to his campaigns for Congress.

Patterson was the last of the major candidates to enter the race, declaring his candidacy in January and starting his fund raising then.

By contrast, Beam and Roth announced their bids last fall to succeed Supervisor Ralph B. Clark, who is retiring at the end of this year. Beam started 1986 with $82,010 in the bank, compared to $162,967 for Roth.

In the race for sheriff, a registrar’s spokeswoman said, there was no March campaign report on file for Bobby D. Youngblood, an Orange County municipal judge who has taken unpaid leave to run against Gates. On his Dec. 31, 1985, campaign report, Youngblood reported a $24,800 deficit, despite also reporting “pledges” by seven contributors to donate $390,000.

Written Statement Withdrawn

Youngblood said Monday that he has withdrawn his 200-word written statement, which would have been mailed to more than a million voters with their sample ballots, and has been refunded his $7,800 fee. Youngblood said he has “another idea that might be (a) more effective” use of the money.

Supervisor Nestande, who two weeks ago rolled his campaign for lieutenant governor into a campaign for secretary of state, reported raising $166,762 in the 2 1/2-month reporting period.

Nestande has said that by November he expects to spend about a million dollars on this statewide race, aimed at defeating incumbent March Fong Eu, a Democrat who has held the job for 12 years.

In the reporting period, from Jan. 1 to March 17, the Republican supervisor spent $142,716. That brought his total contributions for the campaign to $172,762 and total expenses to $181,819.

In other county campaigns, Richard E. Longshore, an Anaheim real estate agent who is a Republican candidate in the 72nd Assembly District, raised nearly three times the amount that his chief competitor, Santa Ana Mayor Daniel E. Griset, a Democrat, brought in through March 17. They are competing for nomination to seek the seat to be vacated by six-term Assemblyman Richard Robinson (D-Garden Grove) who is now running for Congress.

Longshore received $9,520 in monetary contributions in the reporting period, bringing his total contributions for the campaign to $35,447. Griset, meanwhile, has received $8,495.61 in contributions and spent $6,244.

No statement was available from a second Republican in that race, litigation representative Richard V. Heaney of Santa Ana.

In the 71st Assembly race, incumbent Doris Allen (R-Cypress) reported raising $15,050 and spending $8,564.50 in the reporting period. Her challenger, Democrat Mark Rosen, a lawyer who lives in Garden Grove, had raised $14,191 in the period and spent $9,219.

Surplus of $68,200

In the campaign for the 32nd State Senate District post, incumbent Edward R. Royce (R-Anaheim) reported contributions of $9,555 and expenses of $31,002 for the period. But because of contributions in previous periods, his campaign reported a surplus of $68,200.

One of Royce’s Democratic challengers, Sal Sapien of Stanton, reported $1,280 in monetary contributions, another $2,000 in loans to his campaign and $500 in pledges. No report was available for another Democrat running for Royce’s seat, Francis Hoffman, a member of the county Board of Education.

By 5 p.m. Monday complete campaign reports were unavailable for candidates in several other Assembly districts. However, candidates are allowed to mail their statements if they are postmarked by 5 p.m., and there is a minimal fine if statements are late. Candidates in congressional races do not have to file reports until April 15.

Times staff writer Mark Landsbaum contributed to this report.