Which candidates for Mayor and City Council have been taking major campaign funding from FivePoint and other developers?

A few candidates have made it clear that they are more interested in serving their own political interests by serving powerful special interests — especially the developers who are funding their campaigns.

With two open seats on the Irvine City Council, and Mayor Donald Wagner seeking re-election, Irvine voters will be making a dramatic choice on Nov. 6th: to maintain a pro-developer Council majority under Mayor Wagner… or to elect a new pro-resident Mayor and City Council.

Ed Pope, founding chair of the citizens’ committee to Build the Great Park Veterans Cemetery — and a recently announced candidate for Mayor of Irvine — is challenging Donald Wagner, who is seeking re-election Nov. 6th to a second two-year term as Mayor.

Mayor Wagner and Councilmembers Fox and Shea continue to display a disturbing pattern of ignoring residents, voters, and good planning principles.

At a tumultuous July 10th Council meeting, Mayor Wagner and Councilmembers Fox and Shea rejected Councilmember Lalloway’s motion to “immediately begin construction” of the Veterans Cemetery at its originally designated site in the Great Park.