2026 Money · Candidate
Peter Szalai
Money reported by this candidate's 2026 committee, from its filed statements.
Data as of 2026-10-17. Figures cover campaign statements for periods through that date; coverage differs by committee.
2026 money at a glance
- Later reported receipts
- $0
- Separate; never added to the other figures
- What’s this? Later reported receipts
Office: Mayor.
Candidate roster: City Clerk elections page ↗. Committee association uses its reported candidate/election name.
Current-election committee: 1488922.
| Measure | Amount |
|---|---|
| Monetary contributions through 2026-10-17 | $5,646 |
| Later reported receipts — separate | $0 |
| Payments through 2026-10-17 | $27,345 |
| New loans received (Schedule B1, gross) | $24,291 |
| Loans net of repayments and forgiveness (Summary line 2) | $24,000 |
| In-kind support | $0 |
| Reported ending cash | $2,380 |
| Latest itemized unpaid bills | $0 |
| Reported total outstanding debt | $24,000 |
Largest contributor groups
| Reported party | Amount |
|---|---|
| Other individual contributors/lenders (names withheld) | $1,550 |
| Kathy Seltzer | $1,000 |
| Brad Seltzer | $1,000 |
| Peter Szalai | $846 |
| Mary Heck | $600 |
Largest payees
| Reported party | Amount |
|---|---|
| Frank Stewart | $6,354 |
| I Heart Media | $3,000 |
| MATV Billboards | $2,095 |
| SMG Monterey | $2,000 |
| KSBW | $2,000 |
Independent expenditures by other committees (2026, Form 496)
No Form 496 independent expenditure report naming this candidate appears in the City's NetFile exports used here.
Individual donors are named only when their aggregate contributions meet this site's disclosure threshold. Monetary contributions exclude new loans and in-kind support; later reported receipts remain separate.
Terms on this page
Plain-language meanings from the site glossary. The official labels stay as filed.
- Monetary contributions
- Money a committee reported receiving as contributions: the Schedule A total, itemized plus unitemized amounts (Summary line 1). New loans and in-kind contributions are not included. It can include loan forgiveness, so it is not always all new cash.
- Payments
- Money a committee reported paying out (Summary line 6): itemized and unitemized payments plus loan interest (Schedule E). Subvendor details are informational and are not added to payments again.
- Ending cash
- The cash a committee reported at the end of the coverage of its latest full statement (Summary line 16). It is a balance on one date, not a total over time.
- Later reported receipts
- Contributions reported on Form 497 that are dated after a committee’s latest full statement. They are counted separately and are not added to that statement’s totals.
About these numbers
- Each 2026 figure is its own measure. The 2026 figures are not added together, within a committee or across committees.
- Unavailable (not zero): Shown when a figure could not be established from the filings used here, such as when no committee was matched to a candidate or a committee has no 2026 full statement. It does not mean zero dollars.
- Names withheld: individual contributors below the disclosure threshold are pooled into one row. Pooled amounts remain in funding totals.
- Loans, in-kind support and contributions reported after a committee’s last full statement are shown separately from monetary contributions.
- Reports filed after the export date may be missing. Check the City’s NetFile portal for newer filings.
- Positions of ballot-measure committees are as their filings or the City’s portal state them. They are not endorsements by Transparent Salinas.
Sources and method
Figures come from campaign statements that committees filed with the City of Salinas, as exported from its NetFile portal. Each measure is kept separate, and amounts are rounded to whole dollars.