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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.
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish’s campaign for governor shows no sign of slowing down on the fundraising front. Denish’s campaign announced that she raised a little more than $295,000 in April and now has more than $2.7 million to spend on the election.
Denish has no primary opponent, while five Republicans vie for the Republican nomination.
“I’m the only candidate in this race with a specific plan to create jobs at our small businesses and reform state government,” Denish said in a statement. “New Mexicans know I won’t make promises I can’t keep, and as Governor, I’m going to work hard every day on things that are important to New Mexicans — jobs, education and reforming state government.”
The campaign says that more than half of the campaign’s 9,416 donations have been of $100 or less.
In the voluntary announcement of fundraising, Denish campaign chairman brought back a slogan from the 1980s.
When families turn on their TVs, they see the Republican candidates for Governor running on platitudes, sound bytes and empty promises. New Mexicans are asking ‘where’s the beef?’” said Ted F. Martinez, Denish’s campaign chairman.
The slogan Where’s the Beef? was used in the mid-1980s for the fast food chain Wendy’s and was reappropriated by Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale in the 1984 election during the Democratic primary.
