What the records show
Public campaign filings show money from a marijuana (cannabis) company, Industrial Integrity Solutions (IIS), James L. Previti's marijuana company, going to political groups that then gave to or spent for Rancho Cucamonga officials. Best efforts have been used to verify everything here; please read the disclaimer in the Introduction.
* Timing only. Committee funds are pooled; filings do not show which dollars were passed on.
The money
James L. Previti and his companies
The companies, the marijuana (cannabis) business, Rich Munkvold (listed CFO of Previti's companies), and where the money went.
Start here →SB County GOP
The San Bernardino County Republican Party. $428,000 from Previti companies: FH II (his homebuilding company) and $183,000 from IIS (his marijuana company) in 2026, and what the party then gave and spent.
See the route →Rancho Cucamonga officials
How to read these figures. “Given” means a campaign contribution reported by the candidate's campaign. “Spent” means a group paid for its own mailers or ads supporting the candidate. “Previti-linked” means the money came from James L. Previti, one of his companies, or a political group that had reported receiving money from them.
Lynne Kennedy
Mayor Pro Tem, District 4
$78,418.83
Previti-linked, given and spent
$62,374.84 paid by groups after they received IIS (marijuana company) money*
See the money trail →Ryan Hutchison
Council Member, District 3
$265,410.95
Previti-linked, given and spent
$56,777.47 paid by groups after they received IIS (marijuana company) money*
See the money trail →Kristine Scott
Council Member, District 2
$17,689.21
Previti-linked, given and spent
$9,869.73 paid by groups after they received IIS (marijuana company) money*
See the money trail →L. Dennis Michael
Mayor
$5,169.48
Previti-linked, given and spent
No money traced to IIS
See the money trail →Ashley Stickler
Council Member, District 1
$2,419.48
Previti-linked, given and spent
$500 paid by groups after they received IIS (marijuana company) money*
See the money trail →Who's who
A political committee (or PAC) is a group that collects money from donors and gives it to candidates or spends it on ads and mailers. It must report its money in public filings.
- Industrial Integrity Solutions, LLC (IIS)
- Previti's marijuana (cannabis) company. A 2019 Pasadena cannabis permit application said Previti founded it in 2016 and set it up “to provide financing and other operational controls” for his family of commercial cannabis businesses. [S-020]
- FH II Homebuilders, Inc. / FH II, LLC
- Previti's homebuilding company, listed under construction and development on the Previti company chart. Many of his political gifts were reported as made by FH II. [S-140, S-143]
- Frontier Enterprises
- Previti's development company. Campaign filings list him as its President/CEO; the 2019 application describes IIS as its subsidiary. [S-205, S-208, S-020]
- The Previti Group
- A Previti development company; listed as the applicant for the Etiwanda Heights tract maps in Rancho Cucamonga. [S-060, S-061]
- IE Citizens for Government LLC
- A Previti-funded political giving company (not a campaign committee). State records list Previti as its 100% owner, putting in $225,000; it gave to political committees. [S-001, S-002, S-003]
- SB County GOP
- The San Bernardino County Republican Party, filed as the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee. It reported receiving $428,000 from FH II and IIS. [S-282, S-283, S-140, S-144]
- Coalition for Better Government
- A political committee. It reported receiving $20,000 from IIS and giving $5,500 to the Armendarez for Supervisor campaign. [S-311]
- Committee for Ethical Government
- Four related political committees. They reported receiving $23,250 from IIS in 2022 and paid $4,666 to the Committee for Effective Government, another political committee. [S-311]
Statements for voters
- Previti's companies include a marijuana (cannabis) business, Industrial Integrity Solutions. That money is now part of Rancho Cucamonga's elections. Is this the money residents want funding their city?
- When residents questioned the plan to roughly double the intensity of Etiwanda Heights, Previti's VP of Planning wrote to City staff that he wanted to answer “informed questions versus tinfoil hat conspiracy theories,” and called the residents “These NIMBY individuals.” City staff answered: “the NIMBY's will likely want to be heard loudest.” In the same thread, the developer's side said they'd be “manning the station that will attract the loud NIMBYs.” [S-308] NIMBY stands for “Not In My Backyard.” It's a label for people who object to something only because it would be near them. That's how Previti's group and City staff described residents raising concerns about their own city.
- This council voted to keep marijuana dispensaries out of Rancho Cucamonga [S-309, S-310]. Yet Previti's marijuana company has given $717,200 to political groups since 2019, including $183,000 to the SB County GOP (San Bernardino County Republican Party) in 2026 and $20,000 to the Coalition for Better Government (a political committee) in 2022. Money from those groups then reached Kennedy, Hutchison, Scott and Stickler, both directly and through other campaigns. Marijuana stores stay out of our backyard, but marijuana-linked money makes it into their campaigns after passing through other groups. Who are the real NIMBYs?
- Once money goes into a political group's account, it's pooled with other donations, so no one can say exactly how many of the marijuana dollars reached each candidate. But routing money through a political party or a PAC doesn't change where it came from. The marijuana company's money went in, and the money to these candidates came out of the same accounts.
- Previti could give to these candidates directly. Instead, the marijuana money went to other groups first and reached the candidates from there, sometimes two steps removed, which makes it far harder for voters to trace.
- From 2016 through 2025, records show no SB County GOP money in Lynne Kennedy's campaigns. Then in 2026, the year the party took $183,000 from Previti's marijuana company, it endorsed her and started funding her campaign. The party's support and the marijuana money arrived in the same year.
Ask them. Before you vote.