Laguna Beach's Top Democratic Presidential Campaign Contributors

Donors in Laguna Beach opened up their pocket books and gave big to their favorite presidential candidates this campaign season.

Voters in 12 states take to the polls on Super Tuesday, March 1, to cast their ballots for the presidential nomination in each party, and if campaign contributions are any indication of appeal, Hillary Clinton should be a big winner on the democratic side.

While the California primary isn’t until June, several of your neighbors have already shelled out big bucks in support of their favored democratic candidate (Patch will examine Republican donor spending next week).

In Laguna Beach, Clinton has three big spenders who contributed $2,700, the maximum an individual can donate to a campaign allowed under federal law.

People who gave the maximum allowed in Laguna Beach are:

• HARTNESS, SANDRA
• ELLIS, KAREN
• MORRICE, BRAD
• HOOPER, CLAIRE
• RESSLER, CARLEE
• GUERINOT, JESSICA
• GUERINOT, HILARY
• WITTE, WILLIAM
• RAY, LESLIE A.
• BAYUK, EDWARD
• SAKAMOTO, KEIKO
• FITZSIMONS, SHARON
• FETZER, LINDA
• GUERINOT, JAMES

Overall, clinton garnered about 149 donations in Laguna Beach. Additionally, she has 1526 donations for a collective $699,079 in South County cities.

Her Rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has no big money donors in the area. However, he did garner 188 individual donations in smaller amounts ranging from $5 to $2,016. Andrew Cudday gave Sanders his single largest Laguna Beach donation.

Californian’s have given $28,562,022 to Democratic candidates and $18,789,272 to Republicans.

Clinton has received $21,899,489 so far in campaign donations from people in the state, according to publicly available contribution data from the Federal Election Commission.

Sanders, has raised $$6,109,590 in California.

That’s somewhat in line with nationwide numbers that show Clinton with $126.4 million in individual contributions compared to $95.4 million for Sanders.

Those numbers, though, are a bit misleading.

While Clinton’s campaign has raised big bucks from individuals, she’s also been helped by massive money pouring in through Priorities USA Action, a pro-Clinton Super PAC that has raised more than $50 million in support of the former Secretary of State, according to OpenSecrets.