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Election steady in fundraising

Council incumbent leads the finance race with more than $120,000 in his campaign war chest.

March 28, 2007|By Robert S. Hong

CITY HALL — While City Council incumbent and candidate Rafi Manoukian continues to lead the pack on fundraising with less than a week to go before the election, challenger Greg Krikorian pulled in the largest lump sum this filing period.

The Glendale Management Assn., which is the union that represents city managers, donated $11,000 to Krikorian's race for a City Council seat.

The Glendale Unified School District Board member brought in $44,700 this period for a total of about $60,800 overall.

"The support has been wonderful," Krikorian said. "We've had widespread support throughout the community. We had contributions from a lot of individuals and that gives me confidence that we represent the entire community."

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Manoukian took in just over $31,000 between Feb. 18 and March 17, bringing his total monetary contributions to $121,080 — by far the largest sum gathered this election.

His two largest contributions this period were two $4,000 donations from private citizens, one in Burbank resident and one from Glendale. He also received $3,000 from the Glendale City Employees Assn.

"I've had tremendous support within the community," Manoukian said.

Candidate Vrej Agajanian is third in the money race, receiving about $29,100 this period with his total contributions rounding off at $61,400.

Agajanian's largest contributions this period — two $3,000 donations — came from private citizens. He also pulled in $2,500 from Lexor Enterprises Inc. and $1,000 from an L.A. labor union.

Council candidate Chahe Keuroghelian raised $24,200 this filing period. His biggest contributions were two $5,000 contributions from Top Notch Dental Laboratory of Glendale and Galaxy Traffic School of North Hollywood.

Keuroghelian's total contributions were not accessible from the City Clerk's office as of press time.

Close behind was Glendale Mayor Dave Weaver, who gathered just over $21,000 this period, with his biggest contribution, $5,000, coming from the Americana at Brand LLC.

Weaver raised a total of $32,600 for his race for another term.

Next in line was candidate John Drayman, who took in just over $19,000 this period for a total of about $29,900.

His largest contributions came as $1,500 from the Glendale Alliance, a political action committee, and $1,500 from IKA Holdings Ltd. of Reno.

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