Getting deployed to Iraq for military duty for the first six months of the year meant a fundraising drought for Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus, who collected a dozen donations totaling $1,500 in July at the end of the fundraising period, according to the disclosure report his campaign filed on Monday.
Neuhaus, a Republican who won a second term in 2017 and has more than two years until his next election, had a modest $49,000 in his account as of July 11. He is a lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserves and was deployed to Iraq with a special operations team in January, returning home in late June.