With a little more than a week to go before election day, Steve Pappas has moved ahead of the other four candidates in money raised in the race for 3rd District Santa Barbara County supervisor.

In the most recent campaign finance reporting period 8 between March 18 and May 17 8 Pappas, the president of the Los Olivos school board, received ,144,116 in contributions.

With less than 30 contributors, mostly from the Santa Ynez Valley area, Pappas took in ,98,616 in monetary donations in the two-month period.

Since January, Pappas has received ,129,846 in monetary contributions, and loaned his campaign an additional ,49,500.

Pappas? most generous contributors included Doug Herthel as an individual and as the founder of the Alamo Pintado Equine Center in Los Olivos, ,27,500; and Nancy Crawford-Hall through her company Anne V. Crawford-Hall Enterprises, ,20,000.

Since January, Pappas has received ,179,346 and spent ,148,728.

David Smyser, a former county planning commissioner and former mayor of Solvang, received ,70,757 from March to May, mostly from North County farmers, developers and business interests.

The Santa Barbara Rental Property Association gave him ,4,900 and Santa Maria Pacific gave ,10,000.

Since January, Smyser has received ,143,951 plus ,3,640 in nonmonetary contributions.

He also received ,2,000 from current 3rd District Supervisor Brooks Firestone, who in December 2007 donated ,10,000 to the Smyser campaign.

Former county Planning Commissioner Doreen Farr, who had been leading the money race, had 143 contributors, most of whom were from the South Coast and under ,200 each. Since January, the largest sums came from Service Employees International Union, Local 721, for ,15,000, and the SEIU state council for ,37,000 (including ,17,000 in in-kind donations).

For the two-month filing period, Farr received ,88,905 in cash donations plus ,32,266 in nonmonetary contributions. Beginning in January, Farr raised a total of ,186,577, which includes a ,5,000 personal loan.

Victoria Pointer, a Buellton City Council member, accumulated ,4,224 this year, which includes ,2,825 between March 18 to May 17 and a ,1,000 loan.

Only one candidate 8 Dr. David Bearman 8 failed to make the deadline for filing the required financial reports.

Bearman is a director of the Goleta West Sanitary District and former member of the Goleta Water Board and Isla Vista Community Council.

If candidates are late filing campaign documents, a letter is sent from the county elections office informing them that they will be fined ,10 for each day they are late up to a total of ,100, according to Ann Harbaugh of the county elections office.

They would then have 10 days from the receipt of the letter to file their documents or they are reported to the state Fair Political Practices Commission, Harbaugh said.

In the 4th District supervisorial race, incumbent Joni Gray has raised nearly three times as much in contributions as her opponent, former Santa Maria Police Chief John Sterling.

In the two-month period, Gray received ,78,348 in total contributions, mostly from conservative groups, builders, developers, farmers and ranchers. Of the total, ,3,000 was the donation of an expenses-paid party.

Since January, rancher Hubert Perrett has donated ,6,500, builder David Lack of Santa Barbara gave ,2,500, and Teixera Farms and the Lincoln Club of Santa Maria Valley each contributed ,2,000.

Since March 18, Gray has spent ,51,181 and has ,32,507 in the bank as of May 17.

Sterling received a total of ,18,372 plus ,1,476 in nonmonetary contributions. More than ,4,000 was from a personal loan and Sterling is left with a balance of ,8,268 as of May 17.

Sterling?s largest contributors were from county unions 8 SEIU Local 721, ,5,000, and ,10,00 from SEIU Local 620.

The three candidates vying for Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge have together brought in far smaller amounts of campaign donations.

Senior deputy district attorney John MacKinnon led the money race, with ,48,134 in contributions, ,40,000 of which was from personal loans. Since January, MacKinnon has collected ,9,782 from donations, ,46,000 in personal loans and ,1,551 in nonmonetary contributions.

Jed Beebe, a research attorney for the Superior Court, received ,10,970 in monetary contributions, ,1,558 in nonmonetary donations and loaned himself ,1,000 from March 18 to May 17. From the start of 2008, Beebe reported receiving ,15,206 in total and spending ,13,167.

Senior Deputy County Counsel Kevin Ready has not taken out any loans this year, but he and his wife have contributed ,1,675 during the filling period.

He reported receiving ,5,667 plus ,2,706 in nonmonetary contributions, and his largest donation this period was ,2,000 from a group called Friends of Salud Carbajal, the 1st District county supervisor.

Since January, he has received ,18,149 in total contributions and spent ,10,671, which does not include outstanding debts.

Sam Womack can be reached at 739-2218 or swomack@santa

mariatimes.com.