{"id":10878,"date":"2010-01-05T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T22:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=10878"},"modified":"2010-01-05T22:15:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T05:15:32","slug":"denish-says-gop-candidates-campaigning-%e2%80%98in-the-dark%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/01\/denish-says-gop-candidates-campaigning-%e2%80%98in-the-dark%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Denish: GOP candidates campaigning ‘in the dark\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lt. Gov. Diane Denish (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n

Diane Denish<\/a> says it\u2019s ironic that the GOP is criticizing campaign contributions she\u2019s accepted when she\u2019s been more transparent about her campaign\u2019s finances than the Republican candidates.<\/p>\n

The comments from the campaign of Denish, the presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee, come a day after state Republican Party Chairman Harvey E. Yates Jr. raised questions about big campaign contributions Denish accepted in a guest column<\/a> published on this site.<\/p>\n

Denish accepted more than $50,000 from Leo Hindery Jr., with about half of it coming a month after Hindery secured a $30 million investment from the State Investment Council. The investment was recommended by Saul Meyer, the state\u2019s former investment adviser, who has admitted to recommending \u201cinvestments that were pushed on him by politically-connected individuals in New Mexico\u201d in\u00a0pleading guilty<\/a> to unrelated charges in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs this \u2018pay to play\u2019 unveiled, evidencing that Denish and Richardson are wrapped in the same corruption package?\u201d Yates asked. \u201cPerhaps. But, we need more information to know for sure \u2014 information which probably can be secured only by law enforcement officials armed with subpoena power.\u201d<\/p>\n

Denish spokesman Chris Cervini wrote in an e-mail response that it\u2019s \u201cironic that the Republicans are attacking Lt. Gov. Diane Denish\u2019s campaign contributions when they\u2019ve chosen to run their campaigns in the dark, refusing to follow Lt. Gov. Denish\u2019s lead and disclose contributions more frequently than the law requires.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Lt. Gov. Denish is running the most open and transparent campaign in the state, Republicans are continuing negative attacks and demonstrating they do not have the leadership or ideas New Mexicans deserve during these difficult times,\u201d Cervini wrote.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s referring to Denish\u2019s practice of releasing campaign finance reports to the public quarterly<\/a> in off-election years, though the law only requires that she does it twice a year. Denish is expected to voluntarily release a report in the next couple of weeks of her fundraising and spending from the fourth quarter of 2009.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve asked each of the Republican gubernatorial candidates if any would match Denish in releasing a fundraising report this month. None have responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diane Denish says it\u2019s ironic that the GOP is criticizing campaign contributions she\u2019s accepted when she\u2019s been more transparent about her campaign\u2019s finances than the Republican candidates.<\/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":[108,106,111,107],"class_list":["post-10878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-diane-denish","tag-open-government","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878","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=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}