{"id":13978,"date":"2010-03-02T08:14:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=13978"},"modified":"2010-03-02T08:14:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:14:43","slug":"domenici%e2%80%99s-260k-in-fundraising-includes-50k-from-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/03\/domenici%e2%80%99s-260k-in-fundraising-includes-50k-from-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Domenici\u2019s $260K in fundraising includes $50K from himself"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pete Domenici Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n

As promised, Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Domenici Jr.<\/a> released detailed information Monday about campaign contributions he\u2019s received to-date, and his fundraising thus far has topped $260,000.<\/p>\n

That includes a $50,000 contribution Domenici gave himself. Contributions he raised from others added up to $210,000.55.<\/p>\n

Domenici posted the entire list of contributions he\u2019s raised since entering the race six weeks ago on his campaign Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis support reflects the strong welcome Pete\u2019s campaign has received from people who believe that he is a solid Republican who has the respect, backing and state-wide exposure to win the governor\u2019s office,\u201d Campaign Director Doug Antoon said in a news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cJanice Arnold-Jones<\/a> was the first Republican to list her contributors on her Web site, and I am proud to follow her example,\u201d Domenici said in the release.<\/p>\n

Since January<\/a>, Arnold-Jones has been posting on\u00a0her campaign Web site<\/a> information about every contribution she\u2019s received to date, and she is keeping the list of contributions current. Domenici didn\u2019t say if he plans to constantly update his list or release new information periodically. Antoon previously said the campaign hoped to release information about contributors at least monthly.<\/p>\n

The next required finance report is due on April 12, but Democratic gubernatorial candidate\u00a0Diane Denish<\/a> started the trend of\u00a0voluntarily releasing reports quarterly<\/a>, even in off-election years when it\u2019s not required, more than two years ago. Her most recent report came\u00a0in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Republican\u00a0Susana Martinez<\/a> has\u00a0matched Denish<\/a> in voluntarily releasing a report of contributions and expenditures for the fourth quarter of 2009.<\/p>\n

But unlike Denish and Martinez, Arnold-Jones has not been releasing information about campaign expenditures more often than is required by state law. Asked if Domenici planned to release information about expenditures more often than law requires, Antoon said he does not.<\/p>\n

\u201cExpenditures will be released in accordance with the state\u2019s disclosure law because it is a campaign\u2019s expenditures that detail planning and strategy (though nearly all campaigns would not admit that outright),\u201d he wrote in an e-mail. \u201cSo we will safeguard that information.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to a question, Antoon said the campaign may release information about any in-kind contributions the campaign has received more often than state law requires.<\/p>\n

Republican candidate\u00a0Doug Turner<\/a> has said\u00a0\u201cmaybe\u201d<\/a> in response to my question about whether he would voluntarily release a finance report. And the campaign of Republican\u00a0Allen Weh<\/a> has said he is\u00a0\u201cconsidering\u201d<\/a> doing the same.<\/p>\n

Dems attack<\/h3>\n

The Democratic Party responded to Domenici\u2019s release of contribution information by accusing Domenici of underperforming by his \u201cown standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citing a \u201csource close to the campaign\u201d that NMPolitics.net quoted when Domenici\u00a0entered the gubernatorial race<\/a> on Jan. 17 as saying the campaign expected to reach $500,000 in fundraising \u201cvery soon,\u201d the Democratic Party said in a news release that Domenici\u2019s \u201cearly gaffes and mistakes\u201d have hampered his fundraising.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party did not point out that the Domenici campaign never officially set the bar at $500,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised, Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Domenici Jr. released detailed information Monday about campaign contributions he\u2019s received to-date, and his fundraising thus far has topped $260,000.<\/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":[108,111,107],"class_list":["post-13978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-open-government","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978","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=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}