Lathrop Mayor Sonny Dhaliwal and former Manteca Mayor Steve DeBrum have raised a combined $501,027 as of Thursday in their bid to gain election to the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors.
Dhaliwal has outraised DeBrum almost 2 to 1.
Dhaliwal has amassed $331,020 in campaign contributions and DeBrum $170,027.
The two advanced to Tuesday’s runoff after being the top two vote getters for the District 3 seat in a three-way race in the March primary. The runoff would have been avoided if one of the three secured a simple majority of the ballots cast.
Dhaliwal garnered 44.41 percent of the March vote, former DeBrum 40.09 percent and Stockton businessperson Angel Sepulveda 15.5 percent.
Manteca for the first time since 1980 will not be split between two supervisorial districts when the final Nov. 5 vote is tallied
Manteca — along with Lathrop — is part of the new District 3 seat.
At the time the Board of Supervisors in December 2021 approved the redistricting as required every 10 years based on the US Census, Manteca had 86,000 — or almost 75 percent of 151,967 residents placed within the district.
Lathrop had 28,000 residents at the time. The rest are residents in the Delta region and those in the northwestern portion of the City of Stockton.
No longer is Manteca, or Lathrop, being used to balance out what for decades had been primarily four districts with the lion’s share of residents residing in Stockton.
The only seat on the five-member board not connected with Stockton is District 5.
It includes Mountain House, Tracy, Ripon, Escalon as well as their respective rural areas plus rural south Manteca.
Robert Rickman in the March 5 primary gained a majority of the vote in a three-way race to win that seat outright securing a second four-year term on the board.
All of the current city limits of Manteca are included in the new District 3 as well as areas in the annexation process and most of the area that has a probability of being annexed between now and 2030.
The rural Manteca area north of East Highway 120, east of Austin Road, north of Southland Road and east of Highway 99 including Raymus Village will be in District 5. That means rural areas around Manteca will be represented by three different supervisors as parts of Districts 3, 4 and 5.
Campaign contributors
The largest Dhaliwal contributors are $9,800 from Service Employees Union Local 102; $5,500 from Reno businessman Robert Beadles; $5,000 from Diesel Mike Repair Shop of Lathrop; $5,000 from Prabhjot Singh, owner of Turlock Petroleum; $4,000 from Star India Sweets & Catering of Lathrop; $3,500 from Haejinder Singh of Sigma Freight Co.; $3,000 from trucking firm owner Savrwan Singh;
$2,500 from the Northern Valley Labor Federation; $2,500 from the Operating Engineers District 3 PAC; $2,500 from Sukhvir Singh owner of Tracy Tigers Sports Complex; $2,500 from Donald Jimenez, owner of Ed Don Cantina; $2,200 from real estate agent Jagroop Singh; $2,000 from Tracy dentist Dikandar Singh; $2,000 from Two Guys Food and Fuel;
The largest DeBrum contributors are $9,998 from the San Joaquin County Correctional Officers PAC; $5,500 from Dairy Farmers of America; $5,000 from San Joaquin County Deputy Sheriffs PAC; $3,500 from Grupe Huber Company of Stockton; $3,000 from French Camp Transport; $3,000 from Roger Hartley of Manteca; $3,000 from Pathway Construction & Electric of Stockon;
$2,500 from Peace Officers Research Association of California PAC; $2,500 from the Northern California Chapter, National Electrical Contractors Association PAC; $2,000 from Rivermaid Trading Co. of Lodi; $2,000 for S Line Transportation Co.; $2,000 from Silva Trucking of French Camp; $2,000 from Jennifer Van Pol of Stockton;
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
