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 Land Commissioner candidate Matt Rush outraised Democratic candidate Ray Powell by more than $60,000 in the latest campaign reporting period, according to reports filed with the Secretary of State’s office. Rush also leads in cash on hand $63,000 to $47,500, the reports show.
Rush got a big boost from the Republican Party of New Mexico, which donated $25,000 to his campaign. The Eddy County Republican Party donated another $10,000. Together the two Republican entities combined for more than a third of the $93,705 Rush raised in the campaign reporting period.
Powell meanwhile collected $33,000 in contributions during the four-week period covered by the report, with his biggest donors being the International Potash Corporation and FC Facilitator LLC, Forest City Enterprises, with each donated $5,000.
The International Potash Corporation also gave Rush money, contributing $10,000, in two $5,000 installments. The Potash Association of New Mexico donated $17,860 to the Eddy County Republican Party three days after the Eddy County Republican Party’s donation to Rush.
According to the United States Geological Survey, “Potash is used primarily as an agricultural fertilizer (plant nutrient) because it is a source of soluble potassium, one of the three primary plant nutrients; the others are fixed nitrogen and soluble phosphorus.”
Most of the money that Rush spent went to Elliot Marketing for advertising. Rush paid Elliot Marketing $20,000 on September 21 for advertising, $110,414.12 on September 28 and $8,000 on Sept. 15. These three expenses represented the vast majority of the $153,537.98 Rush spent in the campaign reporting period.
Powell spent $49,500 on media buys from Caldwell Media, representing the bulk of the $56,866.73 that he spent during the campaign finance period.
