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Kennedy's campaigns reported raising $375,778 (2016–2026). $60,727 of it came from James L. Previti, one of his companies (such as FH II, his homebuilding company), or political groups that had reported receiving money from them. Those groups also reported spending $17,692 on their own supporting her.
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.
Some of these groups had also reported receiving money from Industrial Integrity Solutions (IIS), Previti's marijuana (cannabis) company. Those amounts are marked with a leaf below.
Share of campaign money
Where the Previti-linked contributions came from
Each bar is a Previti company, Previti himself, or a group that had reported receiving Previti money. The small line under each name says what it is.
Leaf, green bar, or *: paid by a group after it, or a group that funded it, reported receiving money from IIS (Previti's marijuana company). This marks timing only; the amounts are not traceable IIS dollars.
The marijuana (cannabis) company link
Of the amounts above, $44,683 in contributions and $17,692 in separate spending came from groups after they, or a group that funded them, reported receiving money from Industrial Integrity Solutions (IIS), Previti's marijuana (cannabis) company: SB County GOP (San Bernardino County Republican Party) $52,171; Committee for Effective Government, a political committee (via Committee for Ethical Government) $8,953; Armendarez for Supervisor campaign (via Coalition for Better Government, a political committee) $1,250. Total: $62,375. [S-240, S-241, S-311]
Party affiliation: what the records show
2026 is the first time the Republican Party endorsed Lynne Kennedy or put money into her campaign. Filings show no Republican Party money to or for her from 2016 through 2025 [S-240, S-241], and her council races were nonpartisan; by law, party preference does not appear on the ballot for city offices [S-306]. In 2020 her campaign paid $565 to appear in a privately run “Inland Empire Republican Leadership Voter Guide” slate mailer [S-092]; that was advertising she bought, not party support.
In 2026 the SB County GOP endorsed her for Mayor [S-300], and the party's money followed: $5,900 her campaign reported receiving on 9/16/2026, the first party money to her on record [S-092, S-240]; a $8,738.73 party mailer for her on 10/14/2026 [S-240]; and $37,532.65 in late contributions on 10/26–10/28/2026 [S-241]. The SB County GOP tells would-be candidates that Step One is to “Confirm that you are a registered Republican” [S-305]. No public record found shows when she registered as a Republican.
Statements for voters
- 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.
- 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.
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Sources for this page include [S-020, S-092, S-240, S-241, S-300, S-306, S-311]. Figures are from public campaign filings as reported through October 28, 2026 (retrieved 10/29/2026).
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