Published on Saturday, August 23, 2008
By AARON BURGIN
Three Lake Elsinore council members received a combined $50,000 in campaign contributions from developers within months of the council taking key actions on their projects, according to campaign finance documents.
The contributions and votes occurred between January 2006 and February of this year.
Mayor Daryl Hickman and Councilmen Thomas Buckley and Robert Magee collected the contributions during their annual fundraising events: Buckley holds a golf tournament in May; Magee sells tickets for a Super Bowl-viewing fundraiser; and Hickman sells $1,110 suite tickets for a San Diego Chargers football game in September.
In March 2006 and 2007, Buckley and Hickman also sold $1,000-per-person tickets to a suite for an Anaheim Ducks hockey game. Use of the suite was donated by the city's contract waste-hauling company, CRandR.
The three councilmen and developers say the timing of the contributions and the votes is a coincidence
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