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.
Did you know that Jon Barela, the Republican challenger to Democratic Rep. Martin Heinrich, is the beneficiary of a fundraiser scheduled for tonight at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C.? The cover charge is $250 per person—or $1,000…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be in Albuquerque on Sept. 23 for a fundraiser for Susana Martinez, the GOP candidate for governor of New Mexico. The general admission price is $250, but for $1,000, donors can have their photos…
Three high-powered donors were responsible for $350,000 in donations to Susana Martinez’s campaign over the past few months: Foster Friess, Michael Bleyzer and B. Wayne Hughes. The three are all prominent Republicans with connections to powerful GOP leaders including Donald…
Embattled Secretary of State Mary Herrera and her Republican challenger Dianna Duran raised almost exactly the same amount in the last quarter, with Duran bringing in $29,070 to Herrera’s $28,681. But while Herrera’s still got $74,465.04 cash on hand, Duran only has…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish raised $795,000 in the last three months—but she spent nearly $1.7 million over the same period.
The Lt. Gov. pulled in some big money this quarter, including $50,000 donations from three different groups representing teachers, state…
Republican Attorney General candidate Matt Chandler raised nearly $115,000 according to campaign finance reports. His biggest donor was the state Republican Party, which gave $25,000 toward his bid.
Chandler finished the reporting period, which ran from June 25 to September…
Attorney General Gary King raised nearly $275,000 over the last three months, according to a campaign finance report filed Monday. The biggest donation to King’s campaign came from the Democratic Attorney General’s Association, which pitched in $100,000.
King closed the…
In case you’re wondering what Gov. Bill Richardson has been doing during the 2010 New Mexico election season, he’s around.
Richardson, New Mexico’s bigger-than-life governor for the past eight years, has kept an uncharacteristically low profile this election year. (That…
Susana Martinez has received a $500,000 donation from the Republican Governor’s Association, The Washington Post reported today. The group, tasked with electing Republicans to gubernatorial offices around the country, previously donated $250,000 to Martinez’s campaign.
Washington Post political analyst…
Former New Mexico Republican Party chair (and former candidate for governor) Allen Weh announced today that he has founded a political advocacy group called For Country. It is a nonprofit, tax-exempt group organized under section 527 of the Internal…
Citing a “crisis of confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary,” former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has called for reform of election campaigns for state judges, urging more states to adopt systems similar to those in Arizona…
A new campaign finance law that would require corporations and other groups to disclose their names when airing political ads will exempt the National Rifle Association and other groups according to a deal from Congress to the NRA. The law…
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s political action committee, Free & Strong America PAC, has given $5,000 each GOP governor candidate Susana Martinez and $2,500 each to congressional candidates Jon Barela and Steve Pearce. Barela is running against incumbent Democrat Martin…
Secretary of State Mary Herrera‘s office will begin field training sessions this week for candidates and campaign officials who are struggling with the state’s new Campaign Finance Information System.
Dozens of candidates missed the April 5 deadline for…
Secretary of State Mary Herrera denied all waiver requests from candidates facing Monday’s deadline for filing their first campaign finance reports of the 2010 election season, State Elections Director Don Francisco Trujillo told The Independent Tuesday. Herrera…
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.…
A bill sponsored by Sen. Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, which would post online a database of political contributions from those seeking contracts with the state, and ban contributions while a contract is being considered, cleared the Senate easily on Monday.…
If the Supreme Court abandons all campaign finance restrictions without requiring that sponsors take credit for the ads, then the often savage recklessness that anonymity breeds among those who comment on the internet will descend upon local, as well as national, politics, and infect it with the brutal drivel that people spew when they are not held accountable for what they say.
