News Commentary | Das and Laura Head for $1 Million Campaign
Rivals Clash Over Mystery independent expenditure Committee
First District Supervisor Das Williams(right) looks up at his challeger Laura Capps during a debate at the Franklin Center Febuaray 6, 2020. | Credit: Daniel Dreifuss
A version of this story originally ran February 8, 2020, on newsmakerswithjr.com.
Das Williams and Laura Capps are on pace to raise and spend over $1 million combined in their race for the 1st District seat on the Board of Supervisors, campaign finance reports show.
Three weeks before the decisive March 3 election, the two together have reported raising nearly $900,000. As they scramble to secure more donations to push out their messages on the airwaves and through the mails in the next 23 days, the rivals seem certain to shatter the spending record for a local supervisor’s race, the bitter Doreen Farr–Steve Pappas contest in 2008.
