“We’re never gonna get up to that. … It was pretty disappointing to see what they had spent, but also a good reminder who we’re up against,” said Ananda Tomas, of ACT 4 SA, which led the effort to place Prop A on the ballot.
Credit:The police union has outspent backers of Proposition A 20 to 1 thus far in its effort to defeat theEarly voting for the municipal election begins April 24; election day is May 6.between Jan. 1 and March 27, according to its campaign finance report recently filed with the city. Just over 98% of its contributions, $866,225, came from the union itself.
“I’m happy to see that the business community is waking up to it and we’ve certainly enjoyed the help that we’re getting,” Jason Sanchez, treasurer of the police union and Protect SA, said of the other PACs., which would have removed the union’s ability to collectively bargain for its labor contract with the city, the San Antonio Police Officers Association set up a restricted fund within its budget to save money for future referendum fights, Sanchez said.
“Members of the association, almost 100% of them, put in $900 each into the account and we’ve held that money in abeyance until a referendum came along that would jeopardize the working conditions or employment [of members] or harm the community,” Sanchez said. That money is now backing the union’s PAC.
He declined to say how much money, was left in that fund, “but I will say that there’s more to come.” ACT 4 SA, the nonprofit police reform group which led the effort to place Prop A on the ballot, spent $43,591 for rent and campaign materials
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