{"id":15799,"date":"2010-04-12T23:43:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=15799"},"modified":"2010-04-13T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T19:26:43","slug":"weh-loans-self-another-500k-raises-691k-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/weh-loans-self-another-500k-raises-691k-total\/","title":{"rendered":"Weh loans self another $500K, raises $691K total"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11804\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804 \" title=\"Weh, Allen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Weh-Allen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Weh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenweh2010.com\/\">Allen Weh<\/a> raised $691,003 from Oct. 1 to April 5, with the bulk of it \u2013 $500,000 \u2013 coming as a loan from Weh to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/abqnews\/abqnewseeker-mainmenu-39\/20440-campaign-financial-reports-due-today.html\">The Associated Press<\/a>. Weh\u2019s report isn\u2019t online, and his campaign did not respond to two e-mails from NMPolitics.net seeking a copy of the report or at least the summary sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Weh had previously loaned his campaign $250,000, so his total self-financing is up to $750,000.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign spent $519,026 and ended the reporting period with $544,142 on hand, the news service reported. He also reported $48,843 in in-kind contributions.<\/p>\n<p>The Weh campaign focused in a news release on the total amount Weh has raised since entering the race in July, not the amount he raised during the last reporting period. The release said he\u2019s received donations from 1,300 people, with more than half of them from outside Albuquerque. 1,000 of those donations have been for $100 or less.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the campaign of, and for,\u00a0the people, and it really showed in this last report\u00a0in the large number of small contributors,\u201d Weh said. \u201cWe know it\u2019s going to take millions of dollars and an army of volunteers to defeat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/\">Diane Denish<\/a> in November, but we\u00a0intend to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Weh\u2019s primary opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a> reported that she raised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/martinez-raises-more-than-428k\/\">$428,064.67<\/a> from Oct. 1 to April 5. Another opponent, <a href=\"http:\/\/turnerforgovernor.com\/\">Doug Turner<\/a> reported raising <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/turner-loans-self-199k-raises-401k-total\/\">$400,771.90<\/a> \u2013 with $198,745.92 of that coming as loans from Turner to his campaign. Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/domeniciforgovernor.com\/\">Pete Domenici Jr.<\/a> raised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/domenici-loans-self-70k-raises-372k-total\/\">$372,107.77<\/a>, which included a $70,000 loan from himself to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>And the last GOP gubernatorial candidate, <a href=\"http:\/\/janiceforgovernor.com\/\">Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a>, reported that she had raised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/arnold-jones-raises-110k-plus-54k-in-loans\/\">a little more than $110,000<\/a> in financial contributions and had another $54,193.79 in loans, for a total of more than $164,000 in fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>Denish raised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/denish-raises-1-1-million-in-fundraising-period\/\">more than $1.1 million<\/a> during the reporting period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, April 13, 1:25 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Weh\u2019s report is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/2010ExcelReports\/Weh.pdf\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh raised $691,003 from Oct. 1 to April 5, with the bulk of it \u2013 $500,000 \u2013 coming as a loan from Weh to his campaign.<\/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":[108,107],"class_list":["post-15799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799","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=15799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}