I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
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The business of showing Albuquerque who has the determination to be mayor gets seriously underway today — the first day to pick up donation booklets from the city clerk.
Candidates who want to qualify for public financing have to convince 3,280 people — 1 percent of the registered voters in Albuquerque — to give them $5 during the next six weeks. That’s a big undertaking — collecting $5 contributions is a lot harder than people might think. Just imagine if someone you don’t know came knocking on your door asking for five bucks.
This will be the first time the public financing system is used for the mayor’s race. The first go-round with the system was in 2007, when candidates for City Council used it. So far former state Sen. Richard Romero, City Councilors Debbie O’Malley and Michael Cadigan, and local activist Donna Rowe have said they’ll run for mayor.
If you think the public financing system is a good thing, city rules allow you to give a $5 contribution to all of them. You aren’t forced to choose just yet.
Albuquerque’s Mayor Martin Chavez is keeping us all guessing about whether or not he’ll get in. He told the Albuquerque Journal’s Dan McKay he’ll decide in the “next few weeks.” McKay reported that news on his blog Monday, saying that Mayor Marty also said he wasn’t looking for a job in Washington, D.C.
Nonetheless, he’s going there at the end of this week. Another tidbit McKay reported:
Mayor Martin Chavez has been invited to Washington, D.C., again, but this time he’s not sure why. He said Monday that Barack Obama’s administration asked him and about 15 other mayors to be in the nation’s capital on Friday. The group has been meeting with Obama on the economic-stimulus package, but the purpose of the latest meeting is unclear.
OK, maybe it’s about the economic stimulus package. On the other hand, maybe Marty’ll be moving to Washington, leaving the mayor’s race wide open?
