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…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner reported raising over $400,000 in the latest fundraising period. Nearly $200,000 of his fundraising haul was in the form of loans from D.W. Turner, the PR firm which Turner owns, to his campaign.
Turner finished the fundraising period with slightly more than $260,000 cash on hand.
The fundraising period ran from October to April 5, and the deadline for campaigns to file their campaign finance reports was yesterday.
Turner’s campaign now has more than $371,000 in campaign debt.
NMPolitics.net reported on the loans and correspondent payments from Turner’s campaign to DW Turner.
Turner’s campaign director, Carri Phillis, said the identical loans and expenditures recorded on the same days reflect the fact that D.W. Turner does media buys for all its clients, including the Turner campaign. When it does that, it spends its own money, which becomes a loan to the Turner campaign. The campaign then pays D.W. Turner back for the media buy.
