Ballers and shot callers

Money is power. Who has the most among East Bay elected officials?

☕️MORNING BUZZ

—Tens of millions were raised last year and tens of millions were spent in East Bay elections up and down the political ladder.

With the deadline for reporting year-end campaign finance reports passing last Friday, how much cash each federal, state, and county elected officials has stashed away in cash reserves presents a point-in-time financial hierarchy in the region.

Nobody is sitting on a bigger pile of cash than Rep. Ro Khanna. His campaign committee reported $10.7 million in cash reserves, through Dec. 31.

No other East Bay elected official comes close to Khanna’s cash on hand. The closest in proximity is state Attorney General Rob Bonta with nearly $6 million in cash reserves reported, as of Dec. 31.

At the state level, north county Assemblymember Buffy Wicks is nearly $1 million in cash reserves, followed by Tri-Valley Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer Kahan. Both represent districts that overlap with Contra Costa County.

At the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, David Haubert is the county’s Monopoly man with a combined $532,288 in the bank.

The rankings across the board, however, are skewed at the bottom of each list. Those with the least amount of cash reserves are candidates who depleted their reserves during the most recent November elections.

CONGRESS

1. Ro Khanna $10,709,091

2. Mark DeSaulnier $628,987

3. Eric Swalwell $300,002

4. Lateefah Simon $285,654

STATE LEGISLATURE

1. Buffy Wicks (14th Assembly) $944,920

2. Rebecca Bauer Kahan (16th Assembly) $784,046

3. Mia Bonta (18th Assembly) $718,744

4. Aisha Wahab (10th State Senate) $249,257

5. Alex Lee (24th Assembly) $273,991

6. Tim Grayson (9th State Senate) $193,045

7. Liz Ortega (20th Assembly) $191,460

8. Jesse Arreguín (7th State Senate) $56,843

9. Jerry McNerney (5th State Senate) $54,228

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

1. David Haubert (District 1) $532,288

2. Elisa Marquez (District 2) $86,732

3. Lena Tam (District 3) $52,176 ($125,000 debt)

4. Nate Miley (District 4) $39,849

5. Nikki Fortunato Bas (District 5) $18,023

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• How much money does Barbara Lee have? We won’t know until March 1.

• Alameda is not happy with the Port of Oakland’s plan to modernize the Oakland Airport. City leaders are contemplating a lawsuit.

• Oakland to pay large settlement, agrees to train city workers on responding to public records requests.

• San Leandro officials grapple with hot-button issue of reopening storm damaged Lake Chabot Road; mayor pushes for bond measure to fix city’s crumbling roads.

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