Pete Domenici Jr.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Domenici Jr. expects to report having raised more than $200,000 when his campaign releases its first list of financial contributors on Monday.
The Domenici campaign plans to voluntarily release detailed information about its fundraising at 6 p.m. Monday, Campaign Director Doug Antoon wrote in an e-mail. He said he anticipates that the total amount raised will exceed “$200,000 for just over 5 weeks of fundraising.”
Some close to Domenici have set the bar higher than that. One source close to the campaign told NMPolitics.net when Domenici entered the gubernatorial race on Jan. 17 that the campaign expected to reach $500,000 in fundraising “very soon.”
But the campaign has never officially set the bar that high.
The next required finance report is due on April 12, but Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish started the trend of voluntarily releasing reports quarterly, even in off-election years when it’s not required, more than two years ago. Her most recent report came in January.
Republican Susana Martinez has matched Denish in voluntarily releasing a report of contributions and expenditures for the fourth quarter of 2009.
Republican Janice Arnold-Jones has gone well beyond that in terms of disclosure of campaign contributions. She has been posting on her campaign Web site information about every contribution she’s received to date, and she is keeping the list of contributions current.
But unlike Denish and Martinez, Arnold-Jones has not been releasing information about campaign expenditures more often than is required by state law.
Republican Doug Turner has said “maybe” in response to my question about whether he would voluntarily release a finance report. And the campaign of Republican Allen Weh has said he is “considering” doing the same.
Antoon has said the Domenici campaign plans to release information about contributions once or twice a month.