Anaheim Councilwoman Kris Murray
Anaheim Councilwoman Kris Murray held a re-election kick-off fundraiser yesterday evening at the Diamond Club at Angel Stadium. The event was attended by 175 people ( a mixture of community and business leaders, her three council colleagues, former Mayor Curt Pringle and a variety of others) and raised at least $90,000.
That is a huge amount to raise at a single political event in Orange County, even more so when you consider it is for an election that is about a year-and-a-half away. Murray has held together her victorious 2010 coalition, which if anything is now stronger and broader.
To put the blow-out success of this fund-raiser in perspective: during her first (and winning) city council run, Kris Murray raised a total of $114,000 for all of 2010. Yesterday, she raised 78% of that in a single night. With a few days left in the reporting period, she could possibly break the $100,000 mark – and that still leaves 15 fund-raising months between now and November 2014.
There are two council seats up in November 2014, held by Kris Murray and Gail Eastman. For all the howling from the peanut gallery and the media focus on the demands of vocal, organized factions (of which part of the leadership hails from outside Anaheim), Murray and Eastman are strongly positioned to be re-elected. Despite the claims of some gadflies to speak for “the people of Anaheim,” their divisive, class- and race-based rhetoric is not appealing to the great majority of Anaheim’s citizens. When the rubber meets the road next summer and fall, Kris Murray and Gail Eastman will be able to communicate a record that will lead Anaheim voters to reward them with a second term.
Awesome news. Way to go Kris Murray!
Don’t you hail from outside Anaheim?
These two better stay at it — no matter how much they raise, the unions have more.
Benito, that’s because Murray and Eastman have to ask people to donate to their campaign. The unions just take it from their members paychecks.
And what did OCEA spend on John Leos last year? $600,000?
How’d that union money work for Leos?
It goes to show you that our residents and business stand firmly behind Councilwoman Murray. She is doing a great job …protecting taxpayers, fighting for jobs, and working to get rid of gang thugs on our streets.
No matter how much the public-employee unions spend, they always lose in Anaheim. They are on bed with the anti-police thugs and Tom Tait trying to get traction. Good luck. I hope they spend a bunch of their money again.
If I was a union member, a worker in Anaheim, I would be asking why my union leaders has wasted so much of my money on losing candidates and anti-public safety policies.