Posts by Heath Haussamen

Appellate judge candidate Dennis W. Montoya is appealing the secretary of state’s decision to reject his application for public financing.
Montoya’s campaign manager, Santiago Juárez, filed the appeal with the Secretary of State’s Office on Wednesday.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones has picked up another legislative endorsement – this one from Sen. Mark Boitano, R-Albuquerque, who has worked with her on bringing webcasting to the Roundhouse.

Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Tom Mullins says he wasn’t making a statement of support for the recently arrested members of a Michigan-based militia group when he wrote in a blog posting that the government is “after the militia” but “the citizen militia is not the problem.”

Dennis W. Montoya, who is running against Appeals Court Judge Linda Vanzi, has been disqualified from using the state’s public financing system because he exceeded the $5,000 limit on what publicly financed candidates can contribute to their own campaigns, according to a Friday letter from Secretary of State Mary Herrera to Montoya.
Montoya, an Albuquerque lawyer, has been [...]

Three candidates for state House seats have been disqualified by the Secretary of State’s Office for submitting “improper nominating petitions.” They are: Democrat Billy Moore, who was running against two other Democrats for the House District 5 seat in Northwestern New Mexico, and Republicans David Doyle and Thomas Molitor, who were running for the House [...]

Secretary of State Mary Herrera’s office is once again shifting gears and releasing public information it had originally refused to provide.
This time, the Secretary of State’s Office relented and released hundreds of pages of e-mails to media outlets without most of the redactions that were included when the documents were first released earlier this month.

The five Republican candidates for governor have all agreed to participate in an April 10 debate in Las Cruces, but you’ll have to pay to see it. The debate is part of the Republican Party of Doña Ana County’s annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner, and the cost is $100 per person.

U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., will host a field hearing of the House Veterans Affairs Health Subcommittee on Monday in Las Cruces.

Three Republican congressional candidates from New Mexico are denouncing acts and threats of violence that, thus far, have been aimed mostly at House Democrats who have supported health-care reform legislation.

I reported Tuesday that Democrat Mike Anaya had dropped his bid for state land commissioner after failing to win the support of 20 percent of delegates at the party’s preprimary nominating convention. Tuesday was the day those who wanted to stay in their races after failing to get 20 percent at the party’s conventions had [...]

Democrat Mike Anaya dropped his bid for state land commissioner today and endorsed Ray Powell in the race.

The district attorney says her office is still reviewing part of a probe involving Las Cruces City Manager Terrence Moore, and the sheriff’s department is still investigating other, related allegations.

Former state House Minority Whip Dan Foley has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that police officers violated his civil and constitutional rights when they arrested him during a basketball game in 2007.
The lawsuit alleges that Foley was “physically assaulted” without cause or provocation and that the three police officers who arrested him violated his civil [...]

There’s an interesting history between two candidates running for a seat on the New Mexico Court of Appeals. The Albuquerque Journal went in-depth into it this weekend.
The race under scrutiny is between Appeals Court Judge Linda Vanzi and attorney Dennis W. Montoya, who’s seeking to unseat her in the Democratic primary on June 1. But [...]

Deputy Secretary of State Don Francisco Trujillo has been appointed to serve as state elections director, Secretary of State Mary Herrera announced this afternoon. Trujillo’s replaces A.J. Salazar, who alleged two weeks ago that Herrera is violating the Governmental Conduct Act and elections law in his resignation letter. Salazar has alleged that there are “elements of corruption” in the Secretary of State’s Office – those elements being Herrera and Trujillo.