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.
State Sen. Eric Griego, D-Albuquerque, announced Saturday that he will be running for the open 1st Congressional District seat. Griego has served in the state Senate for three years.
State Auditor Hector Balderas will not run for the 1st Congressional District seat, according to a Tuesday report from Roll Call. Balderas, who is not from the Albuquerque-centric 1st Congressional District, said in February that his was “seriously considering” a Senate run.
Albuquerque city councilor Dan Lewis announced this weekend that he is forming a congressional exploratory committee to potentially challenge Democratic incumbent Martin Heinrich in 2012. The release says that the Republican is “seriously considering” a run at the 1st Congressional District seat held by Heinrich since 2008.
Congressman Martin Heinrich, NM-CD1, won his first bid for re-election tonight. Polls showing his Republican challenger, Jon Barela, pulling ahead in the final weeks added an edge to the race, but Heinrich prevailed in the end. A primary reason, he told supporters during his victory speech, was that he didn’t hide from his record.
Independent expenditures in New Mexico’s 1st and 2nd Congressional Districts have now exceeded $6 million, according to Sunlight Foundation analysis of FEC reports. The bulk of the latest money came from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which spent more than…
In recent days out-of-state interests have pumped nearly half a million dollars into the 1st and 2nd Congressional District contests, pushing the amount of out-of-state spending in those two races closer to $5 million, So far, the money spent in opposition to one of the four candidates in the two races easily outpaces the dollars meant to support the candidates. The money has funded almost as a shadow campaign, largely keeping pace with the spending of the candidates’ campaigns themselves.
Jon Barela leads incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich by 2 percent in an internal poll conducted for the Barela campaign. The 49 percent to 47 percent lead is well within the poll’s 4.9 percent margin of error.
The last independent poll,…
Rep. Martin Heinrich still leads in cash on hand going into the homestretch of the campaign against Republican Jon Barela, according to the final campaign finance reports due before the Nov. 2 election.
Heinrich finished the period (pdf), which…
Out-of-state groups have conducted a shadow campaign in the 1st and 2nd Congressional District contests this year, dumping nearly $4 million to sway the outcome of the two races, records show. The tsunami of cash is part of a growing trend nationally in which outside groups swoop in to hot congressional race to run what are usually attack ads, pay for mass mailings or conduct surveys. And it has election and campaign finance reformers concerned.
Rep. Martin Heinrich raised $590,000 in the third quarter while his opponent raised $470,000 in the third of 2010 according to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Elections Commission.
In that same time, Heinrich spent about $830,000 while Barela…
Another outside group backing Republicans is going to air ads attacking a Democrat in New Mexico. This time, it is the American Action Network that announced they would be airing ads against Martin Heinrich and 21 other Democrats in…
Freshman Democratic Rep. Martin Heinrich maintains a large cash advantage over his Republican challenger, Jon Barela, according to preliminary third quarter fundraising numbers released by the campaigns.
Although Heinrich raised about 20 percent more cash over the last few month,…
All three of New Mexico’s freshman Democratic congressmen have been endorsed by The National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF). Martin Heinrich, Harry Teague and Ben Ray Luján each received “A” grades from the nation’s largest gun-rights organization.
The NRA cited…
Republican Jon Barela, vying to unseat Freshman Democratic Rep. Martin Heinrich, has often said that government spending isn’t a solution to stimulating the economy and that if elected he’d end “wasteful government spending.” In yesterday’s Albuquerque Journal, he was quoted saying it’s risk-takers that lead to economic growth, not government incentives. Yet Barela’s own company—Cerelink—has benefited significantly from taxpayer cash assistance, through New Mexico’s film tax rebate program and from high speed computing infrastructure owned by the public.
Freshman Democratic Congressman Martin Heinrich holds a significant lead over his Republican challenger Jon Barela according to a Daily Kos/PPP poll released today. The poll’s margin of error is 4.2 percent.
Running for Congress isn’t something that Jon Barela sought out on his own. Instead, he was encouraged to run for New Mexico’s first congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, he told The Independent in an interview. That…
First-term Democratic Congressman Martin Heinrich talks about the economy, clean energy and the importance of Sandia National Labs and Kirtland Air Force Base.
A new ad from The American Future Fund, a conservative advocacy group, attacks Democratic Congressman Martin Heinrich’s vote for the health care reform bill because it “cuts $500 billion from Medicare.” But it isn’t that simple. As Reuters explained…
Republican Jon Barela aired his first TV ad today in his quest to unseat Democratic incumbent Congressman Martin Heinrich. The ad focuses on the national debt and job losses.
In the ad Barela doesn’t mention his opponent by name,…
Jon Barela, the Republican candidate for Congress in the 1st Congressional District, is accusing Democrat Martin Heinrich of ducking a televised debate. The debate would air on KOAT and would be cosponsored by the Albuquerque Journal.
“The fact that a…
