CAMPAIGN SPENDING : Wieder, Tucker Lead in Fund Raising : Builders Boost Front-Runner’s Coffers

Orange County Supervisor Harriett M. Wieder, under attack in the 42nd Congressional District race for accepting campaign contributions from developers, received more than a third of the money she raised between April 1 and May 18 from development and real estate interests, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Wieder, chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, has raised $92,308 in the most recent reporting period as she competes with seven other Republicans to replace Rep. Daniel E. Lungren (R-Long Beach). The district stretches from Torrance around the Palos Verdes Peninsula across Long Beach to northwestern Orange County.

$32,500 From Builders

About $32,500 of her most recent contributions came from builders, contractors and real estate interests. Employees of C.J. Segerstrom & Sons, the developers of South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, gave $4,500, and the political action committee of the National Assn. of Home Builders contributed $5,000.

Since the campaign began, Wieder has raised about $267,000, far more than her rivals. She had a cash-on-hand balance of $138,504 on May 18, the end of the latest reporting period.

Stephen Horn, former president of Cal State Long Beach, had raised $193,344 as of May 18, more than half of it in the reporting period. Horn had $71,594 in hand.

Horn raised about 11% of his most recent contributions from donors involved in development and real estate. That included $1,000 from Michael J. Choppin of I.D.M. Corp. of Long Beach and $2,000 from MUNCO of Long Beach, which operates commercial and industrial buildings.

The deadline for congressional candidates to file FEC reports on their most recent campaign fund-raising was Thursday.

Horn and Andrew Littlefair of Torrance, another of Wieder’s GOP opponents, have repeatedly claimed that Wieder is influenced by developers in her votes as supervisor.

$15,415 on Hand

Littlefair has raised $167,675 since the campaign began, including $96,556 in the last reporting period. He had $15,415 on hand.

The former White House advance man has yet to make his latest list of individual contributors available to the press. However, developer Ray Watt sponsored a major fund-raiser for Littlefair in Beverly Hills during the reporting period.

Littlefair was the first of Wieder’s 42nd District opponents to capitalize on the slow-growth movement in Orange County by criticizing her voting record. He sent out a mailer accusing Wieder, a board member since 1978, of taking $160,000 in campaign contributions from developers since 1980.

Wieder’s third major Republican opponent, former presidential speech writer Dana Rohrabacher of Palos Verdes Estates, had raised $123,067 as of May 18, including $44,576 in the most recent reporting period.

He listed virtually no money from developer and real estate interests on his latest FEC report, although many of his contributors were not defined by occupation.

Rohrabacher had $58,132 on hand at the end of the reporting period and is counting on several campaign appearances Wednesday by former Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North to generate cash for the last days before the June 7 primary.

Robert Welbourn, a former Palos Verdes Estates city councilman, has raised $79,208 for his campaign thus far and had $24,992 on hand.

Don Davis, a Palos Verdes Estates attorney, reported raising $163,838 in his long-shot effort, but $150,053 of that was a personal loan from himself to the campaign. He had $138,837 on hand.

None of the remaining candidates in the race--Republicans Jeffrey Burns of Huntington Beach and Thomas Bauer of Torrance; Democrats Ada Unruh of Torrance, Guy Kimbrough of Huntington Beach and Dan Farrell of Sunset Beach, or Peace and Freedom candidate Richard Rose of Long Beach--raised more than $5,000, so they did not have to file FEC reports.