Spending remains unbalanced in a couple of Santa Fe City Council races, according to campaign finance statements filed Tuesday with the city clerk by candidates in the March 4 election.

Candidates seeking a southwest-side District 3 council seat show the most even totals, with incumbent Miguel Chavez reporting he has raised $13,694 compared to challenger Martin Lujan, a school board member, who reported $15,530.

Totals were farther apart in the southeast-side District 2, where two candidates are competing to replace Councilor Karen Heldmeyer, who is not seeking re-election. Real-estate agent Robbie Dobyns has logged $8,203 in contributions, while Rosemary Romero, a professional facilitator, has collected $13,091.

Dobyns' monetary support has become more diversified compared to early reports showing large donations from real-estate political action committees. The latest report includes a number of individual donations, with the largest coming from other real-estate agents. Romero's long list of individual contributors includes money from attorneys, facilitators, bankers and builders as well as real-estate agents.

The race in the north-side District 1 is the most financially lopsided. Incumbent Patti Bushee has spent more than six times what her challenger Anthony Garcia has reported.

Bushee, who faced Garcia in the 1996 council election, reported she collected and paid out $14,469 and had about $5,500 in cash balances. Garcia, who promised not to collect more than $1 per registered voter in his district has raised $2,556, about half from a loan to himself. (The district has 12,877 voters registered for this election.)

A large part of Bushee's campaign war chest was left over from her 2004 campaign. City Attorney Frank Katz said last week that both Bushee and Chavez were allowed to roll over previous campaign funds because of the timing of a 2007 rule change that spelled out how such cash should be used.

Katz said this is the last election for which a rollover of funds from a previous campaign will be legal. All candidates will have six months following the March 4 election to spend or distribute all donations.

Heldmeyer said she's preparing to unload her leftover campaign funds at local elementary schools today. She sent a letter to supporters this week explaining the plan to donate to Partners in Education, who will divide it among the five elementary schools in District 2.

Although too late for this financial reporting period, a city employee union political action committee donated $20,000 to candidates it has endorsed. The American Federation of State Local and Municipal Employees Local 3999 committee cut checks Tuesday for $5,000 each to Bushee, Romero, Chavez and to unopposed District 4 Councilor Matthew Ortiz, said Robert Chavez, organizer for the union PAC.



Campaign contributions

City Council campaign finance reports filed with the city clerk through 5 p.m. Tuesday showed the following amounts, and gave the following names of donors who made cash contributions of $100 or more. Another report is due Monday, with a final report after the election due on March 18. (The city clerk has posted campaign documents on the Web at www.santafenm.gov.)

DISTRICT 1

Patti Bushee
Total contributions: $20,018

Bushee carried over nearly $12,073 from her successful 2004 council campaign. Individual donations include:

• $500 from art dealer Mark Alterman and Linder Alterman, an administrative assistant; $300 from attorney Frank Herdman; $250 each from hedge fund manager James D. Leatherberry, Mary Anne and Allen Sanborn, Alexis Gerard, investor Medora Jennings and James Jennings, attorney David Horowitz, accountant and consultant Richard Depippo and Douglas Howe, retiree William White and attorney Joe Lennihan.

• $200 each from El Ice Plant, Michael and Marcy Dickman, Geraldine Macomber, Gerry Angeli and Diane Angeli, Bernard and Ethel Kolbor, Realtor Lori Kolb and executive Fred Kolb; $150 each from attorney Brian Egolf, jewelry designer Paddock Livingston; $120 from computer business owner David Gold.

• $200 each from El Ice Plant, Michael and Marcy Dickman, Geraldine Macomber, Gerry Angeli and Diane Angeli, Bernard and Ethel Kolbor, Realtor Lori Kolb and executive Fred Kolb; $150 each from attorney Brian Egolf, jewelry designer Paddock Livingston; $120 from computer business owner David Gold.

• $100 each from John and Liz Crews, Realtor Jeannie Begum, college admissions officer Sharon S. Cooper, attorney William Kilgarlin, consulting engineer Dale Schrage, John P. Greenspan and Julianne Bodnar, Marge Veneklasen, architect Edward Mazria and his wife, former City Manager Asenath Kepler, Gloria and Richard Bushee, management consultant Mary Anne Shaening, accountant Donald Stout, attorney Diane M. Garrity, consultant and City Planning Commissioner Matthew O'Reilly, speech and language pathologist Jules S. Shapiro, engineer Scott Karns and his wife, Rita Karns, investor and photographer Shelby and Karin Miller, Patrick Salazar, Sadie Salazar, former City Manager Jim Romero, who now works for Santa Fe Public Schools, and Anne Kramer.
  

In-kind: None reported.


Anthony Garcia
Total contributions: $2,556

In-kind: Campaign literature from printer Jerry Schafer, valued at $50, and banners from Josie Lucero, owner of Emmanuel Picture Frames and Art Supply.



DISTRICT 2

Robbie Dobyns

Total contributions: $8,203

Most of Dobyns' money came from colleagues in the real-estate industry, including $2,413 from the New Mexico RPAC, a political action committee of the Realtors Association of New Mexico, and $1,500 from Santa Fe Realty Partners, the agency where he works.

Other donations include $250 each from relatives Marjorie Dobyns and Stephan Dobyns, attorney John Silver and from David and Barbara Prescott, the parents of his finance chairperson; $200 from real-estate agent Ray Rush; and $150 each from Rick Berardinelli, Charmay Allred and Paige Prescott.

• $100 each from real-estate agents Susan Munroe, Maxine Swisa, Dale Zinn, Cheryl Davis, Linda Horn, Susan Varela, Michael Varela, Victoria Murphy, Emily Garcia, John and Deborah Scott, and from John Greenspan and Stanley Spiegel, who both serve with Dobyns on the radio station KSFR board of directors.
  

In-kind: 40 pounds of red chile donated by his brother, Marty Dobyns, who owns Santa Fe Olé, a food manufacturing and packaging plant, and a painting Dobyns is raffling off that he values at $3,000.



Rosemary Romero
Total contributions: $13,091

Individual donations included $500 each from Earl Potter, Canyon Road attorney Richard Ellenberg and Walter Ganz, with whom Romero served on several boards of directors for nonprofits; $400 from physician David Gunderson; and $350 from daughter Linnea Morris.

• $300 from Harold and Patricia Romero, a meatcutter and his wife, and from Romero Properties, her family's rental business.

• $250 each from merchant Michael Patrick, retired Dr. Clifford Vernick and from attorneys Morton Simon and Carol Oppenheimer, planner Bruce Poster, health advocate Charlotte Roybal, Old Santa Fe Association president Marilyn Bane, professor Margo Chavez-Carles, arbitrator Richard Fincher, education director Elizabeth Gutierrez, attorney Jerome Ginsburg.

• $200 from Lerfoy Romero, former school board member Marcy Litzenberg, mediator Donna Silverberg and attorney Tom Mills.

• $125 from Realtor Gary Hall, artist Melinda Hall; $150 each from attorney Aleta Belin, and attorney Tom Simons and his wife, Susan, attorney M.G. Sutin, water planner Consuelo Bokum.

• $100 each from William Thorton, historian John Clubbe, John and Margeaux Baker, real-estate age Karen Walker, Dr. Paul and Ruth Kovnat, Eduardo and Diego Lucero, Nathalie Love, commercial property owners George and Mercedes Royball, attorney Vicki Gabin, consultant Katherine Armigo, screenwriter Joyce Eliason, Peter and Mari Kooi, developer David Ater and his wife, Peggy, Rita Martinez and John Purson, consultant Mary Ann Shaening, former City Councilor Ouida MacGregor, Carlos Gallegos, Marilyn Bane, Washington D.C. teacher Fran Tenorio, Frances Romero, Carolyn Cook, Jane Bingham, Rob Leutheuser, hydrologist Amy Lewis, community organizer Brian Skeele, retired professor A.J. Robinson, retired industrialist Greg Bemis, Dr. Mai Ting, lobbyist Linda Siegle, attorney Tim Vollamn and his wife, Jo Ann Crouse, photographer Nancy Maret, builders Alan and Summer Burrus, therapist Maudi Foster and builder Larry Reyburn, Bill Layden and facilitator Kate Kopischke.

DISTRICT 3

Miguel Chavez
Total contributions: $13,694

Chavez, who is seeking his third term, rolled over $4,994 from his previous campaign and also donated $115 to himself. Other donations include: $646 from Chavez' wife, Elizabeth, $500 each from retired dentist William Herrera, whose family formerly owned the land where a south-side Wal-Mart Supercenter is planned as well as from Montaño's Excavating and Trench, attorney Richard Ellenberg, attorney Earl Potter, and J. and Mary Perkins, members of the Upper Canyon Road Association.

• $300 from G. Cameron Duncan of the National Labor College; $250 from minimum-wage ordinance advocates and labor lawyers Carol Oppenheimer and Morton Simon; $210 from Mayor David Coss and wife, Carol Rose; $200 each from nursing assistant Teresa Griego, Russell D. Mosteller, the husband of Councilor Karen Heldmeyer, Mrs. J.P. Schaumberg, teacher Susan and retiree Cameron Duncan.

• $175 each from state worker Dorothy Shepherd and landscaper Barbara Fix, $165 from Francisco and Arlene Tercero; $125 from artist Frederico Vigil.

• $100 each from Frank Adelo, biologist and educator Gary Schiffmiller and Katherine Bueler, health-care consultant Charlotte Roybal, administrative assistant Lynn Chandler, cabinetmaker Hugh Linn, Realtor Karen Walker, Old Santa Fe Association president Marilyn Bane, Phillip and Elanor Bove, Cheryl and Arthur Roth, writer and furniture maker Alan Webber and Francis Diemoz, Gwen Wardwell, and Kathleen Holian.

In-kind: $6,386 in in-kind contributions of office space from San Isidro Plaza LLC, part of a development by Jeff Branch; a "monoprint collagraph" by Fredricio Vigil; a sterling silver watch and copper lizard by silversmith Simon Garcia; a water color from Marian A Sharin, a retired city planner, and a ceramic from artist Robert Francis Johnson. $2,000 worth of Web page design services from Brian Tercero.



Martin Lujan
Total contributions: $15,530

• $900 from Thomas Dillenberg, a retired executive who lives on Canyon Road, and $500 each from former school district consultants Harris Consultant Inc., Advantage Asphalt and Seal Coating LLC, attorney Own Lopez; Edward and Mary O'Brien, retirees who live in Massachusetts and are the parents of Lujan's wife; investor Garrett Thornburg, and the candidate's brothers, Larry and John Lujan.

• $400 each from three partners in the city-owned Railyard movie theater and retail complex: Rick Jaramillo, Allen Branch and Marco Gonzales.

• $300 from contractor Gilbert Dominguez; $350 each from the law firm of Cuddy, Kennedy, Abetta and Ives LLC, veterinarian Esteban Armendariz, and events coordinator Tom Rojas.

• $250 each from property managers Marshall and Alexis Girard, financial planner and Carlos Gilbert Elementary School parent Phillip W. Murray, Andrew and Lucinda Leyba, consultant Brian Cooke, North Dakota sales representative Todd Fuller; $200 each from Realtor Robert Trujillo, Chavez center employee Liza Suzanne, banker Fidel Gutierrez, financial planner Christopher L. Ihlefeld.

• $150 each from Andrea Serna Probst, Beverly Garcia and sales director David Miller; $125 from collector Lori Lujan, coach/educator Michael Luan, educator Martin Pacheco; $100 each from financial planners Owen and Katherine Van Essen, Mario Gonzales, Alyssia Lujan, Miguel Angel Acosta, former Mayor Larry Delgado and wife, Angie, former school board member Marcy Litzenberg and her husband, Dr. William Litzenberg, Ruben and Danielle Montes, retired educator Avelardo Armendariz, retiree Ron Besera and casino employee Issacc Varela.
  

In-kind: $2,184 worth of office space from James Ellegood, BP Plain Eagle Corp.