2022 campaign-finance network
Committee ID 1433080 tied together officers Patrick Meighan, Nick Guthman and later Karlo Silbiger; major documented funding from Patrick Meighan, SEIU-UHW PAC and Abundant Housing LA PAC; and independent expenditures supporting Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza.
The 2022 Form 460 identifies the committee as primarily formed to support Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza. By Oct. 22 it reported $12,921.89 supporting Fisch and $12,921.86 supporting Puza, while also reporting expenditures associated with opposition to Dan O'Brien and Denice Renteria. The same filing reports Patrick Meighan at $15,970.55 cumulative calendar-year contributions, SEIU-UHW PAC at $6,500 during the period, Abundant Housing LA PAC at $2,000, and Gregory Maron at $1,675 cumulative giving. A later supplied Form 496 adds another $3,500 from SEIU-UHW PAC. Follow the full campaign-finance record.
Committee history · 2020–2022
FPPC filings supplied for this project identify Onward Culver City, committee ID 1433080, as an operating general-purpose committee before its 2022 candidate-support activity. A 2021 filing covering the first half of that year lists Josh Goldstein as treasurer. By the filing covering the second half of 2021, Nick Guthman was treasurer and Patrick Meighan signed as a responsible officer.
The same second-half 2021 filing records a $1,000 contribution from Patrick Meighan on July 16, 2021. In the first half of 2022, the filings show Meighan continuing to fund the committee, Haifaa Moammar contributing, and Alex Fisch making a $150 contribution to Onward on March 18, 2022. Later in 2022, Onward's legal committee name explicitly identified support for Fisch and Freddy Puza, and the committee began reporting independent expenditures supporting them.
Why the distinction matters: the earlier filings document committee continuity, officers and funding history. They are not being treated as evidence that the committee's 2020–2021 purpose was already to support Fisch and Puza.
Paper Form 410 record · 2020–2022
Newly obtained paper Form 410 amendments trace Onward Culver City, committee ID 1433080, across a change in officers, committee filing address, bank location and committee purpose. The filings document continuity of the committee ID; they do not by themselves establish wrongdoing or coordination. Committee street addresses are intentionally not reproduced here.
October 2020
December 2021
September 2022