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Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Brian Colón is off to a quick start, having already raised more than $100,000. Colón announced the fundraising number in an e-mail he sent to supporters early today. “In less than one month we passed the magical $100,000 mark in our fundraising efforts,” the e-mail states.
That includes more than $75,000 Colón has raised through two events—a kickoff party attended by more than 500 people in Albuquerque earlier this month that netted Colón’s campaign more than $50,000, and, according to today’s e-mail, a second fundraiser on Friday at which the campaign “surpassed our goal of raising $25,000 in an evening.”
Colón has also raised almost $20,000 through the online fundraising site ActBlue.
Colón has four other fundraisers planned before the campaign finance reporting period ends on Oct. 5. The e-mail says Colón’s campaign has focused on fundraising “to ensure we will have a strong report and compete with candidates who have been raising money nearly two months before we entered the race.”
Other candidates have not been touting their fundraising numbers as openly as Colón, so how his fundraising matches up with others isn’t clear. But $100,000 is a historically impressive amount of money to raise so quickly in a lieutenant governor primary race.
In addition to Colón, those who have formally entered the race are Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano, state Sens. Linda Lopez and Gerald Ortiz y Pino of Albuquerque, State Rep. Jose Campos of Santa Rosa, and Lawrence Rael, executive director of the Mid-Region Council of Governments.
Sen. Tim Eichenberg, D-Albuquerque, has also been making rumblings about running or considering running, but he has not formally declared his candidacy.
