Santa Clarita City Council candidates TimBen Boydston and David Gauny joined forces on The Signal’s front lawn Saturday, denouncing their incumbent opponents for questionable campaign contributions from G&L Realty.

Boydston and Gauny called the impromptu news conference because incumbents Frank Ferry, Marsha McLean and Mayor Laurene Weste are “being influenced by out-of-town special interests. Furthermore, these special interests have not filed at our City Clerk’s office, as we city candidates are required to do,” Boydston said.

A campaign-disclosure statement from the Los Angeles-based political action committee Citizens for Integrity in Government was filed with Los Angeles County. The lone contributor to the committee was G&L Realty, the firm that intends to build and own the three medical-office buildings that are part of Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital’s planned expansion.

The California Fair Political Practices Commission Web site states committees that support or oppose candidates and ballot measures in a single city must file with the city clerk.

Each of the three received $4,377.97 in direct mail and phone calls. The committee had $7,729.55 remaining as of March 31.

“It appears as if G&L Realty is paying back our City Council incumbents for their votes to approve the construction of three huge office buildings, which were approved by our incumbents without sufficient parking,” Boydston said.

Gauny has been a longtime opponent of the hospital expansion, because he says the developer’s agreement with the city doesn’t guarantee a patient facility will be built along with the office buildings.

“Our public needs to know this is happening,” Gauny said. “Our public needs to ask why they are hiding their reports from the legal requirement placed on all candidates.”

McLean said she knew nothing about Citizens for Integrity in Government and was surprised to see the brochures they sent. She supposed that because the incumbents are supportive of expanding the hospital, they decided to support the incumbents.

“That can be the only reasoning I can think of,” she said. “I am running my campaign and I’m responsible for my campaign, and I make sure that I adhere to the FPPC. I can’t be responsible for independent expenditures.”

Weste said the same.

“I have no control over what people are doing,” Weste said.

Ferry could not be reached for comment.

Both Weste and McLean noted that they received brochures from the California Republican Assembly on behalf of David Gauny.

Boydston and Gauny said their joint news conference, held on The Signal’s front lawn on Creekside Road, had nothing to do with a recent incident, in which fellow candidate Harrison Katz said Boydston had agreed to offer him a seat on the city’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Commission should Katz lose in the race, in exchange for Katz’s support of Boydston for the remainder of the election.

Katz proposed to Gauny the same quid-pro-quo deal in an e-mail, which Gauny forwarded to some campaign volunteers. One of them, Berta Gonzalez-Harper, sent the e-mail to The Signal.

Neither Katz nor Gonzalez-Harper were among the 20 supporters present at the news conference.