This could either be an inadvertent error, or an attempt to inflate reported contributions (and I sincerely hope that isn't the case. One time Assemmblywoman-elect Jan Leja can attest to how that comes to a bad end). There's no way to know without seeing copies of all the contribution checks and matching them against he reported amounts.

The Dalat check is also one of the contributions that were collected too early.

This leads back to one of the strangest things about Dina Nguyen's campaign report: she is serving as her own treasurer -- which is both unusual and foolish.

Dina had utilized veteran professional treasurer Lysa Ray for her city council race. And now Dina is serving as her own campaign treasurer. I don't know if Dina declined to continue using Lysa's services, if Lysa decided she didn't want to do it any longer, or if Dina figured she can just do it herself.

You're running a spring of a supervisor campaign against an incumbent and you have to raise a lot of money fast -- in addition to going to events, walking precincts and doing all the other things a candidate has to do. Not to mention work and family commitments.

Why would you take on the extra work of being your own campaign treasurer when a) you've never done it before and b) you're in a high profile race in which your reports are going too receive forensic-level attention and c) the inevitable mistakes are going to divert time, energy and momentum away from the primary goal of forcing Janet Nguyen into a run-off?

I get a feeling this ain't the end of it.