Influential San Francisco developer Joe O’Donoghue has pumped $45,000 into the Oakland City Council District 4 race in an attempt to elect political newcomer, Jill Broadhurst, public records show. O’Donoghue funneled the big donation through the local landlord group, Alameda Rental Housing Association of Northern Alameda County, which then sent out several mailers, touting Broadhurst’s candidacy. The last-minute expenditures exceeded Oakland’s campaign limit, thereby lifting the spending caps in the race. But several Oakland sources say there’s an alternative motive for the recent influx of cash — bad blood between O’Donoghue’s friend and business associate Carlos Plazola and Broadhurst’s competitor Libby Schaaf.
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