Allen Weh

Days after she failed to secure the votes of 20 percent of delegates at the GOP’s preprimary nominating convention, Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones is trying to show that she has momentum by announcing the endorsements of two of her colleagues in the state House.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez gained in stature at today’s Republican Party preprimary nominating convention. Allen Weh did what he needed to do. And Pete Domenici Jr. is down but not necessarily out. That’s how Albuquerque pollster Brian Sanderoff analyzed the results following today’s vote.

The Independent will be on hand at the Albuquerque Hilton Saturday at noon to live blog the 2010 Republican Party pre-primary convention, where candidates for office will vie for enough votes to be placed on the primary election ballot.
In particular, we’ll be watching to see who gets 20 percent in the five-way gubernatorial race between state [...]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones easily won a straw poll taken at Tuesday’s monthly meeting of the Quay County Republican Party.

As promised, Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Domenici Jr. released detailed information Monday about campaign contributions he’s received to-date, and his fundraising thus far has topped $260,000. That includes a $50,000 contribution Domenici gave himself. Contributions he raised from others added up to $210,000.55.

After the “youthful indiscretions” of Clinton, Bush and Obama, the question of who inhaled and who didn’t is mostly a yawner. Some Tea Partiers who attended an Albuquerque gubernatorial candidates forum said they’re concerned about admissions from three GOP candidates who’ve admitted doing drugs in the past, while others said the past should remain just that.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Domenici Jr. expects to report having raised more than $200,000 when his campaign releases its first list of financial contributors on Monday.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez easily won a straw poll taken following a candidate forum Thursday evening in Clovis.

Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, a Democrat, is ahead of five potential Republican challengers, according to the first public polling of the New Mexico gubernatorial race. Her nearest challenger is Pete Domenici Jr.; she has the support of 45 percent of those polled to his 40 percent. Denish is also best known of all the candidates, with 75 percent name recognition.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Domenici Jr. will release information about campaign contributions he’s been collecting on Monday, according to Domenici spokesman Doug Antoon.

The Democratic Party of New Mexico is starting to get impatient with three Republican gubernatorial candidates who say they will or may voluntarily release campaign finance information before the next report is due in April– but haven’t yet done it.

Pete Domenici Jr. is ahead of Las Cruces District Attorney Susana Martinez by nearly 18 points— in a poll that was conducted before Domenici admitted to using cocaine and marijuana as a young man.

The office of Lt. Gov. Diane Denish says it inadvertently violated the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act late last year when it failed to forward two requests from Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh to another agency that maintained some of the records that were sought.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez has the public backing of 25 percent of Republican state senators and representatives–10 of 40. What does it mean? Do endorsements matter? Depends on whom you ask.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh says he may join other candidates who have chosen to voluntarily release campaign finance reports this month.
“We’re considering it,” Weh spokesman Christopher Sanchez wrote this morning in an e-mail.