The Fundraising Season Begins to Pick Up Steam

Could be crowded January 30 at Tequila Museo Mayahuel restaurant on 12^th and K in Sacramento.

Of course crowded is just how the owners like it .

And how the two state Senate candidates holding fundraisers there yearn for it to be as well.

Sen. Kevin  de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat, wants a minimum of $1,000 to attend his 5:30 to 7:30 pm fundraiser at the restaurant.

He seeks re-election in 2014.

Jason Hodge, the husband of Assemblywoman Fiona MA, a San Francisco Decmorat, is a Democratic candidate for the coastal 19^th Senate District which includes Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Ventura and former Democratic Assemblywoman Hannah Beth Jackson who wants to best Hodge in the June primary.

He is holding a $1,500-a-head fundraiser at Mayahuel beginning at 6:00 pm the same time as his would-be colleague, de Leon.

To date, Jackson has scheduled no Sacramento fundraiser through the end of February.

Hodge has another fundraiser – this only $1,000-per person — scheduled for February 13 at Paragary’s, a venerable Sacramento eatery that once was the hangout of the ‘Gang of Five, a group of Democrats that attempted to topple Assembly Speaker Willie Brown in 1988.

It’s a co-fundraiser, apparently. Ma is holding an event at the same time and location seeking $1,000 for her bid for Board of Equalization in 2014. 

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