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LOCAL ELECTIONS / ANAHEIM CITY COUNCIL : Incumbents Vastly Outspend Others : Three current council members have paid out 13 times more on campaigns than the 10 challengers.

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Three incumbent members of the Anaheim City Council have spent a total of more than $350,000 on their campaigns--13 times more than all 10 challengers have spent, according to documents filed Thursday with the city clerk.

The documents also show that the contributions to Mayor Fred Hunter and Councilmen Tom Daly and William D. Ehrle between Oct. 1 and Oct. 17 continued to be both more numerous and larger than those given to all of the council challengers, except local businessman Frank Feldhaus.

The incumbents received $47,196 during that period, including 129 contributions of $100 or more. The challengers received a total of $30,633, including 72 contributions of $100 or more. Feldhaus received the bulk of the challengers’ money, receiving $22,706. His campaign also received a $20,000 loan from Councilman Irv Pickler. Feldhaus also loaned his campaign $20,000.

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Hunter and Daly are running for mayor. Because of Anaheim’s unusual system of selecting a mayor, Daly also is having to seek reelection to the council. He and Ehrle are being challenged by 10 opponents. The three incumbents have spent $353,967 on this campaign, compared to about $24,000 for the challengers.

Hunter, who originally said he would not seek campaign contributions, has raised $37,909 since Aug. 1 and has $3,406 remaining in his campaign war chest. He has spent about $100,000 on this campaign, including money he had leftover from previous campaigns. Hunter is seeking his third two-year term as mayor.

His largest contribution in this period was $5,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents electricians and other employees in the city’s Utility Department. He has now raised $8,125 from the city’s four employee unions.

Daly has raised more than $73,000 and has spent almost $190,000. His largest contributor during this time was the Manufactured Housing Educational Trust, a mobile home manufacturers’ group, which gave him $1,700.

Between July 1 and Sept. 30, Ehrle had taken a break from fund raising, garnering only $175 in contributions. But he is again seeking contributions and has raised a total of $28,540 this year and spent $62,399, including money left over from previous campaigns.

During this reporting period, he received four contributions of $1,000, which were his largest. They came from the Los Angeles Rams; the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders; San Diego’s Comfort Inn hotel; and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

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Hunter, Daly and Ehrle were not available for comment late Thursday.

Among Daly and Ehrle’s council challengers, only Feldhaus, Planning Commissioner Bob Zemel and Keith Olesen, the former chairman of the city’s Gang/Drug Task Force, have raised more than $7,000 during the past year.

Feldhaus, who finished fifth in the 1990 council election, now has $61,755 in his campaign treasury.

Neither Feldhaus nor Pickler could be reached for comment Thursday.

Zemel, who finished third in the 1988 council race, has a total of $7,846. He has also loaned his campaign $9,000. His largest contribution during this period was $1,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Olesen received $3,125 between Oct. 1 and 17. His largest contribution was $1,000 from the Anaheim Municipal Employee Assn., which has now given him $2,500. Olesen has now received $8,960.

None of the other council candidates--Fares Batarseh, Todd E. Kaudy, Phil Knypstra, Manuel T. Ontiveros, Edward S. Skinner, Frank E. Turner and Bill Fitzgerald--reported raising more than $1,000 in contributions this year.

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