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The Santa Fe New Mexican and Albuquerque Journal profiled the Republican gubernatorial primary and other races this weekend. One interesting note: One of the GOP guv candidates, Doug Turner, claims he didn’t call himself a moderate Republican during a June 2009 interview with NMPolitics.net. He’s wrong. Continue Reading
Sandy Jones won last week’s non-scientific poll on this site asking who will win the Democratic nomination for land commissioner. Continue Reading
Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones is out with a 30-second TV ad that’s going to start airing statewide on Monday. Watch it here. Continue Reading
Court of Appeals candidate Dennis W. Montoya has cancelled a weekend fundraiser after a TV station reported that a man convicted of bribing a public official was helping him raise money. But that’s not even close to the end of Montoya’s troubles. Continue Reading
Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner will begin airing a new TV ad next week that focuses on how to end corruption. Watch it here. Continue Reading
Democratic Lt. Gov. candidate Joe Campos has picked up a noteworthy endorsement from former Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez, while one of Campos’ primary opponents, Brian Colón, is announcing the endorsement of a 9,000-member public education employees’ union. Continue Reading
UPDATED: Sandy Jones is right on the heels of Ray Powell in a wide open Democratic land commissioner primary, according to a new poll conducted for Jones’ campaign. Continue Reading
A poll commissioned by the campaign of U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., shows him having a 17-point lead over his Republican challenger, Jon Barela. Continue Reading
Appellate judge candidate Dennis W. Montoya wants people to know he doesn’t share the views of a N.M. Public Regulation Commission candidate who, in response to an e-mail Montoya sent out Wednesday, called the residents of Eldorado “bigoted Anglos.” Continue Reading
Rod Montoya has resigned from his position as chairman of the San Juan County Republican Party because he wants to advocate for candidates in some primary races in advance of the June 1 election. Continue Reading
Months after filing its request for financial records with District Attorney Susana Martinez’s office, the Democratic Party is still working to obtain all documents that exist. The stumbling blocks: The office didn’t initially provide everything it has, but it’s working to remedy that. And it didn’t forward the request to the state finance department – which a sunshine group says it was required to do. Continue Reading
Republican and Democratic candidates for the District 5 seat on the Public Regulation Commission will gather in Santa Teresa this evening for a forum. Continue Reading
The New Mexico Supreme Court’s disciplinary board has accused Court of Appeals candidate Dennis W. Montoya of misconduct including fraud, deceit, lying to the court, having a conflict of interest, failing to adequately represent a client and failing to adequately account for and distinguish client funds from his own. Continue Reading
Republican Lt. Gov. candidate John Sanchez is airing his second television ad of the campaign, a 30-second spot that focuses on his background. Continue Reading
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish’s office now says it doesn’t maintain any sort of calendar or schedule of Denish’s appointments but may be able to provide NMPolitics.net with other documents that indicate some of what she’s been doing. The office won’t say who, if anyone, is maintaining Denish’s calendar. Continue Reading