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Findings
ContextTravel payments
Lists $11,039.70 in travel paid by others (5 payments)
Largest: Vancouver and Victoria, Canada ($7,148.30, California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy), Berkeley, California ($1,441.70, California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy), Salt Lake City, California ($1,229.81, California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy). 5 of 5 are listed as gifts.
What to check
Who paid, and for what: speeches, conferences and nonprofit-paid travel are treated differently (Schedule E instructions).
Whether the paying organizations have business before the office.
Lobbying reports name $357.96 in gifts to them in 2025 from 3 sources this statement doesn't list
Lobbyist employers' reports to the Secretary of State (Cal-Access) list activity expenses that benefited them in 2025, $50 or more from each of these sources, none named among the statement's gifts or travel: ELEVATE CALIFORNIA $185 (entertainment ticket); LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES $112.96 (la county division annual installation ceremony and dinner); 1HWY1, LLC $60 (food / beverages).
What to check
Whether they attended or accepted it: the report is the lobbyist employer's account.
What Schedule D doesn't require (Form 700 instructions): gifts returned within 30 days; free admission and food at an event where they made a speech, from its organizer; up to two tickets to a campaign or 501(c)(3) fundraiser from the organization holding it; informational material; plaques worth less than $250.
Whether it's on the statement under another name.
That the report's beneficiary is this person (matched by name and office).
2025-08-07 LA County Division Annual Installation Ceremony and Dinner at Palos Verdes Golf Club $112.96 (of $15,023.25 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report
1HWY1, LLC$60
2025-01-03 FOOD / BEVERAGES at MALIBU FARM SEAPORT SAN DIEGO $60 (of $666.68 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report
Rule: Lobbying gifts not on the statement
“A gift is reportable if its fair market value is $50 or more. In addition, multiple gifts totaling $50 or more received during the reporting period from a single source must be reported.”Form 700 (2025/2026), Instructions – Schedule D ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works
Schedule D · Gifts 16
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California Democratic Party · from the PDF 1830 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814