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.
Governor-elect Susana Martinez named Republican businessman and former Republican congressional candidate Jon Barela her nominee for economic development secretary Friday afternoon. Barela was the president of the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce and a former member of the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education as well as serving as vice chairof the Republican Party of New Mexico.
The race between incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich and Republican Jon Barela was one of the highest rates of independent spending of any U.S. House race in the nation, ranking 12th. Of the slightly more than $3.8 million in independent expenditures…
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.
Democratic incumbent Martin Heinrich and Republican challenger Jon Barela are locked in a close race in Bernalillo County, the county that makes up much of the 1st Congressional District.
The early and absentee votes were nearly identical for the two…
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.
Another day, another couple of independent expenditures in New Mexico Congressional races. This time, the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund is airing ads against Republican Jon Barela in the 1st Congressional District and a new group which calls itself Accountability…
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…
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reported an expenditure in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District today for $116,245. The money went towards media production and a media buy for the ad which will air against Republican congressional candidate Jon 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…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, under scrutiny for possibly using foreign money to fund political activities, is spending $244,598 for TV ads against Democratic Rep. Martin Heinrich and $239,739 against Rep. Harry Teague.
The Chamber has said it will spend…
The National Republican Congressional Committee is finally putting its money where its mouth is in the 1st Congressional District race. At least a little bit.
According to the Sunlight Foundation’s Follow the Unlimited Money, which tracks independent expenditures 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,…
Rep. Martin Heinrich continues to lead in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District according to the latest Albuquerque Journal poll conducted by Research & Polling, Inc. In New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District, the poll shows that the two candidates are…
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.
President Barack Obama made the rounds for New Mexico Democratic hopefuls Tuesday, spending an hour or so at an Albuquerque home with U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich and eating lunch at a popular Barelas political haunt with Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish. Although the official event was a conversation on the economy, the president sounded as if he were on the campaign trail when he dinged Republicans several times, telling the small crowd they face a clear choice in November.
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.
