Adams:  Not as Bad as Tod.
   
Now on to our second most influential member of "Team Newport", Gary Adams.  Now compared to his fellow teammate, Tod, Gary Adams is looking, well ... better.

For starters, Gary only accepted just over $33,000 in campaign contributions, from 111 donors.  Still SIX TIMES that of fellow councilman Dick Nichols, but only about half that of teammate Tod Ridgeway (with 177 donors).  It is also worth noting that only about 25-30% of his campaign contributions came from the real estate industry, as opposed to Tod's 50-60%.  A little alarming is the amount of un-receipted cash that Gary claimed - $7,368, or over 20% of his total.  On a positive note, although Gary does share 32 of his 111 donors with Tod, we don't see the Andrew Goetz money, Duda money, or the Marvin Engineering donations (wonder why they only donated to Tod?).

On the expenditure side, we see that Gary made substantial payments to "David Ellis & Associates", in the neighborhood of $20,000, who would then pay many of Gary's bills for his campaign.  He seemed to be working closer with David, at least financially, than the other candidates that we reviewed thus far.  We still calculate that after the bills, he still paid David Ellis just over $7000 for his consultation (see calculations at bottom of page).  He also paid his "Team Newport" membership dues of $9,999, to the team.

That's about all we have (for now at least).  "Not as bad as Tod", is that a compliment?  As always, we'll present all the data to you, and let you draw your own conclusions.  Without further ado, we present to you, in it's entirety, Gary Adams' 2002 campaign statements:  Enjoy... 

Date First Name Last Name City Occupation (claimed) Employer
(claimed)
Industry
(actual)
Amount Sum Notes / connections / (other contributions)
6/19/2002 Robert Foster Balboa None None   250 250  
6/19/2002 Patrick Bartolic Corona Del Mar Real Estate Sales RE/Max Real Estate 100 350 (Ridgeway:  $100 / Webb:  $100)
6/19/2002 Debra Allen Newport Beach Attorney Allen, Mullings, & Allen, LLP Attorney 250 600 (Ridgeway:  $100 / Webb:  $200)
6/19/2002 Company   Newport Beach Electrical Contractor Mike Kilbride, LTD Contractor 250 850  
6/19/2002 Company   Newport Beach       250 1100  
6/20/2002 Levon Gugasian Newport Beach Real Estate Investments Levon Gugasian Real Estate 250 1350 (Webb:  $450 / Ridgeway:  $250)
6/21/2002 Company   Santa Ana   Austin-Foust Assoc, Inc   250 1600  
6/22/2002 James Santaniello Newport Beach Contractor James Santaniello Construction 250 1850 (Ridgeway:  $250 / Webb:  $250)
6/22/2002 William Ring Newport Beach Real Estate Sales Harbor Realty Real Estate 100 1950 (Ridgeway:  $100 / Webb:  $250)
6/22/2002 Mel Richley, Jr Newport Beach None None   250 2200  
6/25/2002 Clarence Turner Newport Beach Real Estate Trico Realty Real Estate 100 2300 (Ridgeway:  $100 / Webb:  $500)
6/26/2002 Company   Newport Beach Restauranteer The Arches Restaurant Restaurant 150 2450 (Ridgeway:  $150)
6/27/2002 Allen Yourman Newport Beach Civil Engineer Diaz-Yourman & Assoc Engineer 100 2550  
6/27/2002 Dan Sizemore Newport Beach Administrator All American Asphault Transportation 500 3050  
6/27/2002 Company   Newport Beach   Lehman Co, Inc   250 3300  
6/27/2002 Don Bowers Newport Beach Real Estate Dev & Mgmt Bowers, Perez, & Assoc Real Estate 100 3400  
6/27/2002 Joel Rothman Newport Beach Jazz Producer Joel Rothman Music 250 3650  
6/27/2002 Bruce Nott Newport Beach Property Management Bruce E Nott Real Estate 250 3900 (Webb:  $200) / developer
6/28/2002 Dennis O'Neil Newport Beach Attorney Hewett & O'Neil Attorney 200 4100 (Team Newport:  $400 / Webb:  $400)
6/28/2002 David James Newport Beach Investment Banking James Captial Banking 100 4200  
6/28/2002 Company   Costa Mesa   Assured Horizon   100 4300  
6/29/2002 Company   Irvine   Smith Public Affairs   100 4400  
7/1/2002 Philip Paul Balboa Island Venture Capital Paul Capital Partners Banking 100 4500  
7/1/2002 John Stahr Corona Del Mar None None   250 4750 (Webb:  $250)
7/1/2002 Company   Irvine       500 5250  
7/2/2002 Donald Lawrence