Jon Barela

National Republican Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, will be in Albuquerque on Sunday for a fundraiser to benefit Jon Barela, the Republican candidate in the 1st Congressional District. Sessions will appear at a breakfast rally, the day after the Republican pre-primary convention.

According to the Public Policy Polling numbers released today, two Democratic incumbents lead their Republican challengers while one is not far behind his Republican opponent.
Congressman Martin Heinrich leads Jon Barela 45 percent to 36 percent, Ben Ray Lujan both leads Tom Mullins 42 percent to 36 percent and Adam Kokesh 40 percent to 32 percent. [...]

Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate Steve Pearce outraised Democratic incumbent Harry Teague once again in the fourth quarter of 2009, but Teague still leads in overall fundraising during the election cycle.

The Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) has an online poll asking readers which district the firm should poll next. Two of the options are New Mexico’s 1st and 2nd Congressional Districts.

Congressman Martin Heinrich is among the “endangered Democratic Members” of Congress who are receiving thanks from Health Care for America Now and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), according to Roll Call. Heinrich is among 20 members of Congress who voted for the bill and will have television ads aired thanking them [...]

In late July, the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) named two of the Republican challengers in New Mexico part of their Young Guns fundraising program. Today, one of the two, Steve Pearce, moved up in NRCC’s ranking system from “On the Radar” status to the more promising “Contender” status while the other, Jon Barela, did not.

Albuquerque Democrat Martin Heinrich, who is running for reelection to Congress in 2010, is one of four freshman representatives who have been endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice America Political Action Committee, Roll Call reported Monday.

While we got the fundraising numbers of Harry Teague, Steve Pearce and Jon Barela early, the numbers were officially posted on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Web site today.
Martin Heinrich raised $238,235.10 in the 3rd quarter and spent $83,092.78, finishing with $629,867.78 cash on hand; Heinrich’s opponent, Jon Barela, raised $107,489.77 in the 3rd quarter and [...]

Republican 1st Congressional District challenger Jon Barela raised a “pedestrian” $107,000 in the third quarter according to the Washington D.C. political news source The Hill. Barela is facing incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich.
Heinrich’s numbers are not available at the moment, but he entered the quarter with $474,725 in cash.

It should come as a surprise to no political observers that Congressmen Martin Heinrich and Harry Teague are on the target list of the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC). Both New Mexico Democrats are serving their first terms after winning the heavily-contested open seats in 2008.

GOP congressional candidates Jon Barela and Steve Pearce have been named part of the National Republican Campaign Committee’s (NRCC) Young Guns program.

It’s nice to be incumbent when coming up to an election (Nevada governor Jim Gibbons and Senator John Ensign notwithstanding), and campaign finance reports tend to show that.
For example, Congressman Martin Heinrich, an Albuquerque Democrat, received $6,000 from Intel’s political action committee — the same company that employed Barela.

U.S. Reps. Martin Heinrich and Harry Teague, D-N.M., each raised more than $300,000 for their 2010 re-election campaigns between April 1 and June 30.

The Cook Political Report, a non-partisan online newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, governors and president as well as American political trends, took a look (subscription required) at the two potentially competitive congressional districts in New Mexico — the 1st and the 2nd.
The seats are held by first-term [...]

Newly minted congressional hopeful Jon Barela spoke to Politico and, like 2008 Republican candidate Darren White, continued his attack on freshman U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich as “too far left.”