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Form 410 crossover · 2021–2022

Two political committees used the same filing address.

Separate Form 410 records document the same committee filing address for both Onward Culver City and Vote16 Culver City. Onward's December 2021 amendment lists that address with Nick Guthman as treasurer and Patrick Meighan as principal officer. Vote16's initial Form 410, executed July 4, 2022, lists the same committee address and also lists principal officer Ada Meighan-Thiel at that address; Michelle Zhou is treasurer. Onward's September 2022 amendment continues to use the same filing address while the committee is primarily formed to support Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza.

What the records establish: an address overlap between two separate political committees. The address overlap is a documented connection; it does not by itself establish legal coordination between the committees. The street address is intentionally not reproduced here.
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Onward Culver City · 2022

Patrick Meighan

A major funder and officer in the same committee explicitly formed to support Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza. The supplied 2022 Form 460 reports $15,970.55 in cumulative calendar-year contributions from Meighan to Onward Culver City, and later records list him as an additional officer.

Onward Culver City →Alex Fisch →Freddy Puza →Campaign finance →Money →

Documented Onward connection

The filing itemizes cash plus nonmonetary audio and flier-design contributions from Patrick Meighan. The committee's 2022 filing names Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza as its supported candidates; a later Form 410 lists Meighan among its officers.

Major donor report · 2022

Patrick Meighan

$17,141.73 reported in political spending in 2022. Meighan's Form 461 reports $15,610 during July–December alone. Of that six-month amount, $13,540 went directly to Onward Culver City — including a $10,000 payment on September 13 and $3,000 on October 7 — while the same filing separately reports support for Alex Fisch, Freddy Puza, Triston Ezidore, Stephanie Loredo and Vote16.

See every reported payment ↓Onward Culver City →Follow the money →

The scale of the spending

A major-donor filing puts the numbers in one place.

This is Meighan's own Form 461 reporting. It should be read separately from the recipient committees' filings and from CCE's broader multi-year aggregates.

$17,141.73reported since Jan. 1, 2022
$15,610reported July–December 2022
$13,540to Onward in this six-month filing

September 13

$10,000 → Onward Culver City

The largest single payment listed in this Form 461.

October 7

$3,000 → Onward Culver City

A second four-figure payment less than four weeks later.

Direct candidate + measure support

Fisch · Puza · Ezidore · Loredo · Vote16

The same filing separately lists $1,070 for Fisch, $150 for Puza, $450 across two Ezidore payments, $150 for Loredo and $250 for Vote16.

Broader CCE record

$16,465 to Onward recipient-name variants through 2024

CCE's existing campaign-finance aggregate separately links Meighan to $13,365 under “Onward Culver City” and $3,100 under the committee name identifying support for Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza. That broader aggregate is not the same thing as this Form 461's six-month $13,540 Onward total.

What the record establishes

Amounts, dates, recipients and reported support.

The filings establish reported political spending and committee relationships. CCE does not infer coordination, motive or wrongdoing from the contributions themselves.

Form 461 ledger · July 1–December 31, 2022

$15,610 across 13 listed payments.

All entries below are transcribed from the supplied major-donor report.

DateRecipientAmountReported position
2022-07-03Fisch for City Council 2022$1,070Support
2022-07-08Triston Ezidore for Culver City Unified School Board$250Support
2022-07-20Onward Culver City$100Support
2022-07-28Onward Culver City$40Support
2022-08-01Freddy Puza for City Council 2022$150Support
2022-08-06Vote 16 Culver City Yes on VY$250Support
2022-08-13Onward Culver City$150Support
2022-08-18Loredo for Culver City Unified School Board$150Support
2022-08-18Onward Culver City$150Support
2022-08-20Onward Culver City$100Support
2022-09-13Onward Culver City$10,000Support
2022-10-07Onward Culver City$3,000Support
2022-10-12Triston Ezidore for Culver City Unified School Board$200Support

Source-linked Culver City public record

Patrick Meighan

Vote16 contributor and Culver City campaign-network record

Source-linked record of Patrick Meighan's Vote16 contribution, public family connection and authorship of the Tongva-themed comic She Kills.

Documented record

  • NetFile reports a $250 contribution from Patrick Meighan to Vote16 Culver City in 2022.
  • Public reporting identifies Amy Thiel as his wife.
  • Meighan wrote the Tongva-themed graphic novel She Kills.
  • Loyola Marymount University's Gabrielino-Tongva bibliography records Weshoyot Alvitre's published denunciation of the comic for violence and misrepresentation of Tongva women.

Primary and contemporaneous sources

Culver City public campaign transactionsOpen source ↗Public report identifying the spousesOpen source ↗LMU Gabrielino-Tongva bibliographyOpen source ↗

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Campaign finance

Contribution dates.

File card

Money, groups, facts, sources.

Vote16 contributor and Culver City campaign-network record

Reported connected giving$22,888.45
Organizations
  • See the linked record.
Recipients
Notes
  • NetFile reports a $250 contribution from Patrick Meighan to Vote16 Culver City in 2022.
  • Public reporting identifies Amy Thiel as his wife.
  • Meighan wrote the Tongva-themed graphic novel She Kills.
  • Loyola Marymount University's Gabrielino-Tongva bibliography records Weshoyot Alvitre's published denunciation of the comic for violence and misrepresentation of Tongva women.

Sources

Housing and organization records.

Additional 2022 filings

$10,000 reported Sept. 13.

A supplied Sept. 15 Form 496 reports a $10,000 Patrick Meighan contribution to Onward Culver City. Later supplied filings report another $3,000 on Oct. 7 plus nonmonetary campaign-production costs.

Onward Culver City · 2021

Meighan's Onward funding predates the 2022 council campaign.

The supplied Form 460 covering July–December 2021 reports a $1,000 Patrick Meighan contribution on July 16, 2021. The filing is signed by Meighan as a responsible officer and lists Nick Guthman as treasurer.

Onward Culver City · 2021–2022

Principal officer as Onward moved into the Fisch/Puza campaign.

The December 2021 and September 2022 paper Form 410 amendments identify Patrick Meighan as principal officer and Nick Guthman as treasurer of Onward Culver City. Both amendments list the same committee filing address, which is intentionally not reproduced here. The September 2022 amendment identifies the same committee ID 1433080 as primarily formed to support Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza.

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