{"id":10101,"date":"2009-12-09T12:17:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T19:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=10101"},"modified":"2009-12-09T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T19:18:14","slug":"final-finance-reports-filed-in-las-cruces-municipal-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/12\/final-finance-reports-filed-in-las-cruces-municipal-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Final finance reports filed in Las Cruces election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6734\" title=\"Las Cruces logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Las-Cruces-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Las Cruces logo\" width=\"116\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The final campaign finance reports of the 2009 Las Cruces municipal election were filed earlier this week. The result? The candidates spent a combined $83,000 on the election.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s more. The Las Cruces Sun-News has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_13957351\">the full story<\/a>. The short of it? The controversial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/cruces-clerk-finds-no-election-violation-by-pac\/\">Jobs for Las Cruces Political Action Committee<\/a> didn\u2019t file a finance report even though it spent money on newspaper ads. Calling those ads \u201ceducational,\u201d the PAC\u2019s treasurer wrote in a letter to the city clerk that the ordinance governing such spending is \u201cconfusing.\u201d He asked the clerk to let him know if he needs to file a report.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Building Industries Association of Southern New Mexico \u2013 which is tied to Jobs for Las Cruces PAC &#8212; spent small amounts of money in support of two candidates. And a realtor\u2019s PAC gave $2,500 each to two candidates.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the finance reports by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site557\/2009\/1208\/20091208_113243_2ndFinanceReport.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final campaign finance reports of the 2009 Las Cruces municipal election were filed earlier this week. The result? The candidates spent a combined $83,000 on the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-10101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-las-cruces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}