Vasquez, Stanton Pull In Sizable Sums : Fund raising: Larger donations would top limits recently endorsed by the county supervisors.

A burst of fund raising last year has provided Orange County Supervisors Gaddi H. Vasquez and Roger R. Stanton with formidable reelection war chests, according to campaign disclosure reports obtained Monday from the county registrar of voters office.

The two supervisors raised most of their money in relatively small donations of a few hundred dollars each, though both also received several larger contributions. The larger donations would top a proposed $1,000 limit recently endorsed by Stanton and Vasquez and authorized for the county’s June ballot.

Vasquez and Stanton are the only supervisors facing reelection this year. Two supervisors not up for reelection until 1994--Don R. Roth and Thomas F. Riley--reported only three contributions between them. Supervisor Harriett M. Wieder, who is weighing her political options, held one fund-raiser late last year and reported roughly $40,000 in contributions.

It was Vasquez and Stanton, however, who raised the most significant sums.

According to Vasquez’s disclosure statement, the supervisor raised $104,733 in cash and in-kind contributions during the final six months of 1991. That brought his coffers to $295,887, a significant sum for a supervisorial campaign, especially since no opponent has announced an intention to challenge Vasquez for his 3rd District seat.

Stanton, who also faces no announced opposition, reported $181,076 in the bank, of which he raised $117,117 late last year.

“This is the result of our trying to prepare carefully for reelection,” Vasquez said. “I’m pleased.”

Stanton echoed those thoughts.

“I’d like to emphasize that this is my first fund-raiser in four years,” he said. “I’m definitely off and running.”

For the most part, both supervisors’ fund raising would satisfy the requirements of a campaign reform plan on the June ballot. That proposal would limit contributors, during an election cycle, to giving $1,000 to a candidate seeking county office.

“I have consciously tried to raise money from a wide spectrum of people,” Vasquez said. “It’s a broad base of support.”

For both supervisors, however, there were larger contributions mixed in.

The largest single contribution reported by Vasquez was a $5,000 check from Alpha Beta Supermarkets, and he accepted contributions of $1,000 or more from two unions representing county workers and the Walt Disney Co., among others.

Stanton received several $2,500 donations from political action committees, including the Orange County Apartment Assn., the Building Industry Assn. and the Orange County Employees Assn., which represents county workers.

Although Vasquez and Stanton endorsed the $1,000-contribution limit, both also said they will follow the current county law until the voters decide whether to impose that new limit.

“You play by the rules that are in place,” Stanton said. “You don’t play by the rules that used to be in place or that might be in place.”

Under current law, supervisors may accept any amount from a contributor but must abstain from voting on matters affecting a donor if the donor gives more than $1,944 during a four-year period. That abstention requirement does not apply to political action committees, a loophole that has prompted reform advocates to propose the contribution cap.