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The first finance reports for candidates running for state offices are due Tuesday, and they promise to shed a lot of light on how the 2010 election is shaping up. Two former state party chairs may lead the way in fundraising in their respective contests. Continue Reading
Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Brian Colón is off to a quick start, having already raised more than $100,000. Colón announced the fundraising number in an e-mail he sent to supporters early today. Continue Reading
Organizers of tonight’s Democratic Party lieutenant governor candidate forum — the first of the 2010 election cycle — may have to reset the number of seats at the table after early morning shuffling among some of the candidates, but keeping track of time could be a bigger problem. Continue Reading
The recent changes in the dynamics of the Democratic primary include today’s announcement that Matthew Padilla won’t run. In making that announcement, Padilla endorsed Brian Colón for the job. Continue Reading
With most candidates organizing their supporters to vote, Brian Colón emerged with the most votes in last week’s non-scientific poll on this site asking which declared Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor would win the primary. Continue Reading
State Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque, made her run for lieutenant governor official this weekend at an event in Albuquerque. Here’s video of the speech she gave there. Continue Reading
Former state Rep. Brian Moore of Clayton became today the first Republican to announce that he is running for lieutenant governor. Continue Reading
State Rep. Jose Campos, D-Santa Rosa, wants you to know he’s still running for lieutenant governor. There’s confusion because a different Jose Campos is a co-host of an upcoming fundraiser for another candidate. Continue Reading
I caught up last week with lieutenant governor candidate Jose Campos, a Democratic state representative from Santa Rosa. He was in Las Cruces on a campaign trip and made a stop at U.S. Rep. Harry Teague’s town-hall meeting on health-care reform. Continue Reading
There was no news release, no public announcement, and little fanfare, but Brian Colón resigned from his position as chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico this weekend as expected, apparently with the intention of entering the lieutenant governor’s race. Colón made his resignation official in a Friday letter to the state party’s vice chair, Annadelle Sanchez, which was posted at Democracy for New Mexico. His resignation took effect Saturday. “I am proud and humbled by all we have accomplished together. We had clear electoral success at all levels of government. Continue Reading
Why were they abandoned in the agency’s former office for almost two years? What information do they contain? When the Las Cruces-based Region VII Housing Authority shut down in August 2006, board members said the agency’s records would be sent to Region III in Albuquerque. So why did the government records remain essentially abandoned in a privately owned office building in Las Cruces until almost two years later, when they were finally picked up by Brian Colón, a private attorney working on the State Investment Council’s (SIC) lawsuit that’s attempting to recover money lost when Region III defaulted in 2006 on $5 million in bonds it owed the state? Good question. Continue Reading
Matthew Padilla, a law student and former U.S. Navy officer, plans to take an official step toward becoming a candidate for lieutenant governor next week by forming an exploratory committee. Padilla, a Democrat, wrote in a letter to supporters that he will file the paperwork to create the committee with the Secretary of State’s Office sometime next week. Padilla wrote that he is “even more determined to add a fresh new perspective to New Mexico politics” after learning this week that almost half of high school seniors in New Mexico didn’t graduate in 2008. Padilla had previously called the “education emergency” one of his top three priorities. “Together we can begin to change the culture of failure in our education system, while taking the steps needed to promote local sustainable (green) development, as we maintain and strengthen our state’s emergency preparedness system,” Padilla wrote in the e-mail to supporters. Continue Reading
This article has been updated.Brian Colón will resign from the position of chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico on Saturday to launch a bid for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, the party confirmed today on its new blog. From the party’s blog: “As many informed Democrats (and those New Mexicans who follow politics) know, our elected party, Chair Brian Colon, is slated to resign as Democratic Party Chair. Although other blogs had stated that this announcement would happen today (Wednesday), Chairman Colon confirmed that he would make his announcement on Friday (August 7) and it would be effective the following day. He is seeking higher elected office with the Party as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor.” Sources confirmed earlier this week that Colón would resign his position as chairman and join the lieutenant governor’s race. Already in the lieutenant governor’s race are Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano, state Sens. Continue Reading
The lawmaker and Santa Rosa mayor will formally announce his candidacy next week State Rep. Jose Campos, D-Santa Rosa, announced today that he’s running for lieutenant governor next year. Campos, who is also the mayor of Santa Rosa, “will formally announce his candidacy” on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Rudolfo Anaya/Bless Me Ultima monument in Santa Rosa, according to a news release. Click here for a map. Campos’ goals include “job growth, economic stability and improved quality of life through the expansion of renewable energy, innovation in education and vocational training, and the promotion of high quality, accessible, and affordable health care,” the news release states. Campos has been a lawmaker for six years — he chairs the House Voters and Elections Committee — and the town’s mayor for almost 12 years. Continue Reading
News is all over the Internet this morning — and has been confirmed by my sources — that Brian Colón will resign his position as chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico later this week and announce that he’s running for lieutenant governor next year. Colón, 39, enters an already crowded primary field, but many Democrats expect him to compete heavily for the nomination. 770 KKOB-AM reporter Peter St. Cyr reported that the party’s first vice chair, Annadelle Sanchez, will become interim party chair, and a special election to replace Colón will be held within 60 days. Colón did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Continue Reading