Jose Solorio Loans $45,000 To His Assembly Campaign

An OC Blog reader just commented that Jose Solorio has put $45,000 of his own money into his Assembly campaign.

I checked the Secretary of State website, and sure enough: $45K from Jose Solorio.

Unless Jose is secretly an investment genius, that's a lot of money for a senior OCTA manager. If Jose wins, he'll be able to repay the loan in no time. But if he loses -- ouch. Solorio would likely be able to pay back some of that loan due to his position as a Santa Ana Councilman, but even a councilman in a big city would hard pressed to raise that kind of cash for an Assembly account.

Personally, I've never understood why anyone who was not personally wealthy would sink that kind of moolah into a political campaign.

Comments

[garth]

I think Armando sunk in $35K of his own money and Claudia did $20K.

[Cha Ching]

Jose gets around $2,000 a month($200/meeting max 10 per month) for his seat on the Orange County Water District Board...he can afford to put $50,000 in the campaign.

Maybe he pay back the SEIU members their money back that they demanded. Come on Jose, these are working class people asking for their money back. If you support working class people you would pay it back

[art]

Working class means middle class. And, if you have ever worked in government (like me), you'd probably agree that most government workers are lazy and hardly earn their money. I said most, not all.

[KSA]

Maybe he is just frugal and actually believes that he has a good chance of winning with another $45K to spend these last two weeks.