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.
The National Republican Congressional Committee is finally putting its money where its mouth is in the 1st Congressional District race. At least a little bit.
According to the Sunlight Foundation’s Follow the Unlimited Money, which tracks independent expenditures in races from across the country, the NRCC has spent over $100,000 in opposition to Heinrich so far. The bulk of the money, $92,901, came on media and media-related expenses. Another $15,000 went towards a poll by Fabrizio, McLaughlin and Associates.
The NRCC’s Democratic counterpart, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has not yet spent any money in the state, according to Follow the Unlimited Money.
This isn’t the only money that has been spent in opposition to Heinrich. The American Future Fund, a group that has been airing millions of dollars of ads opposing Democrats nationwide, has also pitched in $330,037 opposing Heinrich. This is part of the more than $7.5 million that the group, which does not have to disclose its donors and can spend unlimited amounts of money, has spent nationwide. In all cases, the ads have come in opposition to Democrats.
The ad targeting Heinrich oversimplified changes to Medicare in the health care reform bill that passed Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
Heinrich has received $23,188 in money from outside groups in support of his candidacy. All but less than $200 came from the labor-affiliated “Working America.”
There has been no money spent by outside groups in opposition to Heinrich’s Republican opponent, Jon Barela. Barela has, however, received more than $60,000 in support of his candidacy from outside groups.
The $64,464 in support came from the National Federation of Independent Business, a conservative small-business lobbying group. The group has spent more than $725,000 so far this cycle in independent expenditures. All of these expenditures have been radio ads in support of Republicans.
The group named Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., a “guardian of small business” though they have not spent any money on Teague’s re-election bid against former Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M.
