Brian Colon

Joe Campos qualified to appear on the primary ballot for lieutenant governor on Saturday after all, the Democratic Party of New Mexico has decided. The party says it’s required by state law to round up Campos’ 19.69 percent of delegate votes from the preprimary nominating convention to 20 percent – the threshold for qualifying for the ballot at the convention.

Democratic Lt. Gov. candidate Joe Campos says he’s staying in the race even though he didn’t get 20 percent at the party’s preprimary nominating convention on Saturday.

Democratic Lt. Gov. candidate Jerry Ortiz y Pino says he’s staying in the race even though he didn’t get 20 percent at the party’s preprimary nominating convention on Saturday. “I am not at all discouraged by this hurdle,” Ortiz y Pino wrote in an e-mail to supporters.

Lawrence Rael became today the first candidate in the lieutenant governor’s race to spend money on television ads. The Democrat is out with an ad that focuses on his “ability to build relationships for a better New Mexico,” according to a news release.
Here’s the ad:

Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano announced on his personal blog this weekend that he was ending his race for the Democratic lieutenant governor nomination, citing a large disparity between the amount of money the most successful fundraisers had been able to raise and the amount of money he was able to raise, and other [...]

Jerry Ortiz y Pino says progressives have been “used” by the Democratic Party in New Mexico for a long time. He says his candidacy for lieutenant governor is “a great opportunity for the progressive wing of the party to assert itself.”

Brian Colón says his strength is making connections and bringing people together. It’s what has made him successful in life, and he says it’s a big factor in the work he did as chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico.

Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Brian Colón raised a whopping $277,034 since entering the race in August.
That includes $12,831 in in-kind contributions, but the rest is straight up cash. And Colón spent only about $13,000, so he has $251,049 in on-hand cash.

Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Brian Colón is off to a quick start, having already raised more than $100,000. Colón announced the fundraising number in an e-mail he sent to supporters early today. “In less than one month we passed the magical $100,000 mark in our fundraising efforts,” the e-mail states.

Law student and former Naval Officer Matt Padilla, a Democrat, announced that he will not run for lieutenant governor in a release sent to media early this morning. That leaves seven Democrats already running or considering running for lieutenant governor and three Republicans vying for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.

The Santa Fe County Democrats will host all seven (yes, seven) candidates for Lieutenant Governor at a forum on Wednesday, Sept. 16 according to a press release from the party. The seven candidates will each give five minutes opening statements then answer questions that are submitted to the moderator.

In case you were wondering, the number of Democrats who are either in the race or have expressed interest in the race to replace Diane Denish as lieutenant governor is now at nine.
Santa Fe County Sheriff, one of the nine, told the Santa Fe New Mexican’s Kate Nash, “We got to the point of a [...]

There was no news release, no public announcement, and little fanfare, but Brian Colón resigned from his position as chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico this weekend as expected, apparently with the intention of entering the lieutenant governor’s race.

When the Las Cruces-based Region VII Housing Authority shut down in August 2006, board members said the agency’s records would be sent to Region III in Albuquerque.

The chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico traveled to Las Cruces on May 14, 2008 to pick up documents left behind when the Region VII Housing Authority shut down in August 2006. But Brian Colón wasn’t acting in his role as party chair.