Fact Check: ‘A lot of [Joanna Francescut’s] funding is coming from San Francisco’
Shasta election official Clint Curtis has made claims that donors from San Francisco are “pouring tons of money” into his opponent’s campaign. Records show that donations from San Francisco donors make up less than half of a percentage point of Francescut’s donation total.
The claim
“A lot of [Joanna Francescut’s] funding is coming from San Francisco.”
The context
In recent weeks, Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis has made claims on his campaign Facebook page that his opponent, former Assistant ROV Joanna Francescut, has received significant amounts of funding from San Francisco for her campaign.
In a video posted on May 1, Curtis discussed the funding going into the race for ROV, which will be voted on in the primary election on June 2. He explained that Francescut has received about double the amount of donations he has, which is true. But he also stated that “a lot of her funding is coming from San Francisco.”
In another Facebook video posted about three weeks later, Curtis compared the upcoming election to a special election last year, where California voters passed Proposition 50, a controversial measure designed to weaken Republican voter representation through gerrymandering. He said San Francisco stole voters’ representation in Congress, and “now they’re trying to steal this election as well, pouring tons of money into it for someone they know will follow their lead.”
The analysis
Curtis’ claims about Francescut receiving significant donations from San Francisco are false.
According to publicly available campaign finance records, Francescut has received just over $257 from San Francisco donors so far, making up only about 0.2% of her donation total of just over $125,000.
Even when adding in donations from donors who live in a larger group of counties sometimes referred to as Bay Area counties, only about 3.4% of Francescut’s donations are from that area.
Francescut has received almost $11,500 from outside Shasta, making up about 9% of her campaign totals. In contrast, Curtis has received more than $6,500 in donations from outside Shasta County, or around 11% of his total donations. Overall, he’s raised only about $60,000, less than half of what Francescut’s raised.
About 6% of Curtis’ donation sum has come from San Diego County, and 3% has come from outside of the state.
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MAN it’s going to be nice seeing this lying POS tossed out on his ass by the voters (assuming that his scheme to win by “sorting” the ballots at the precincts fails miserably). Maybe after the election Crye can join Curtis and emigrate to Florida—I’m guessing grifting Kevin has just about run out of public money to sponge up.
Do the people of Shasta County really want a liar to be our County Clerk and Registrar of voters. I think not. Vote for Joanna Francescut.
But by his logic, then Kevin Crye’s donations should also be suspect. Shouldn’t they? Crye’s percentage of donations from the San Francisco area is far higher than Francescut’s.
Curtis is a buffoon and is grasping at straws. He can’t defend his numerous errors on the ballot and in the Voter Guide, his enormous lack of knowledge of CA election law, his misogyny, and his serious inability to lead. Every time he brings up some alleged wrong of Francescut I’m reminded of Trump screaming “but her emails!” Francescut followed CA State law by refusing to hold onto election material past their state-mandated destruction date, by opposing illegal hand-counting, by protecting election staff against pushy and often violent observers, and was vilified by her own MAGA Board of Supervisors for doing so.
Send this clown back to Florida where he still keeps his truck registered.
HOW can you tell Curtis is lying? He is talking or communicating in writing.
I would like Curtis to answer three questions: when he resided in Florida he claimed to write computer code that changed tabulation results. Has he written code for the tabulators here? Has Curtis in any way disrupted the operating systems of the tabulators used in Shasta county? Lastly, under what circumstances is an attorney required to tell the truth?
He’s got nothing. Just a slick grin, mini flags, “Stepford wife” type cronies and misleading or false information about his opponent.
Like the monkey in the zoo who throws his own stuff at the public walking by to see which one will stick.
Bobby- Thank you for your comment! That made my day laughing so hard! You nailed the guy’s profile ! 🙂
Clown Curtis lying again? Unpossible!!
Selah
Gosh (shocked look), he lied.