AD-55: San Gabriel Valley Tribune Notes Fiction of $100,000 Candidate Loans
Posted by Newsletter Reprint on August 13, 2013
AD 55 Candidates Phillip Chen and Ling-Ling Chang
The news media is beginning to take note of the $100,000 candidate loans, which OC Political covered in “AD-55: Land of the $100,000-Loan Paper Tigers” (as well as in articles on the BOE-4 race, the AD-73 race, and on loans in general).
In an article by Steve Scauzillo, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune noted these loans in AD-55:
Both Chen and Chang each loaned their campaigns $100,000, the maximum that can be returned to the candidates, according to state law. The self-supporting candidates earned them the nicknames of “paper tigers” by an Orange County blog, OC Political, which said such loans “are used to inflate campaign finance figures to impress donors and scare opponents.”
OC Political 
AD-55: Chang Has One of OC’s Largest Warchests, but Chen’s is Twice as Large « OC Political said
[…] period was entitled, “AD-55: Land of the $100,000-Loan Paper Tigers,” and was even picked up by the San Gabriel Valley […]
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[…] candidates use $100,000 loans to inflate campaign finance figures, and OC Political has even been quoted by the San Gabriel Valley Tribune regarding these […]