AD 47 candidates on the way to a million-dollar campaign

On the March 5 Primary Ballot, three candidates are seeking the state Assembly seat for District 47. These candidates are incumbent Republican Greg Wallis and two Democratic challengers, Christy Holstege and Jaime Swain. The two candidates with the most votes will advance to the November Presidential Ballot.

Wallis
In the first two months of 2024 (through Feb. 21), Wallis has received about $85,000 in contributions. However, since taking office in 2023, his total contributions are nearly $685,000. Between Feb. 17 and 21, he received another $7,250.
The largest single donation to his reelection was $10,900 from the California Real Estate Political Action Committee (PAC). He has garnered three other donations for more than $5,500 each. These were given by the California State Pipe Trades Council, California State Association of Electrical Workers and the Peace Officers Research Association of California. All are PACs.
Another 46 donors gave $5,000, amounting to about 36% of total contributions. And 70 donors contributed $750 or less. This represents about 20% of his total donors.
Wallis has donations from 54 individuals or groups outside of California. They gave about $115,000. About a third of these contributions came from Texas ($15,000), New Jersey ($12,000) and Washington, D.C. ($11,000).
In the first two months of 2024, Wallis has expended about $85,000 and had about $425,000 available.

Holstege
Christy Holstege lost an extremely close race to Wallis in November 2022. She announced in 2023, less than a year after her defeat and more than year before the next election, that she would challenge him again.
During this period, she has been a prolific fundraiser. Since announcing her entry, she has raised more than $1 million. Since Feb. 17, she has received another $30,000.
Nearly 23% has come from the state Democratic Party, which dearly would like to turn this seat. Another $120,000 came from groups giving more than $10,000 each. Another 90 donors gave between $5,000 and $6,000. However, contributions of $500 or less came from 370 individuals, of which 170 people gave $100 or less.
Only 19 of more than 580 donors were from states other than California and their total contributions were $30,300.
In 2024, she had spent nearly $300,000 for the race and her campaign coffers still held $438,000 in cash.

Swain
Jamie Swain has not submitted any campaign financing data to the Secretary of State to be posted online.