{"id":1640,"date":"2007-04-26T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/check-out-article-on-developers-gifts-to-lyons\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T18:32:00","slug":"check-out-article-on-developers-gifts-to-lyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/check-out-article-on-developers-gifts-to-lyons\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out article on developer’s gifts to Lyons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I wrote a week ago<\/a> about a couple of large gifts the developer of The Vistas at Presidio gave last year to a political action committee that, in turn, gave a lot of money to the re-election campaign of state Land Commissioner Pat Lyons<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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The development is the 6,000-acre project proposed by Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> builder Philip Philippou. He\u2019s leasing 3,200 acres of the land from the state under an agreement you can read here<\/a>, and gave $20,500 last year to Blue & Red PAC<\/a>, a committee set up by Democratic lobbyist Domonic Silva<\/a> and Republican Lobbyist David Kimble<\/a>. The committee, in turn, gave almost $18,000 to Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n

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The Albuquerque Journal<\/a> reported on the donations today, and picked up on a couple of details I missed.<\/p>\n

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For example, I asked Silva before I wrote my article if he represented Philippou as a lobbyist, and he told me he did not. He told me that he and Kimble were friends with Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n

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I didn\u2019t ask the right question, but apparently the Journal did, because the newspaper was able to report that Kimble has represented one of Philippou\u2019s companies as a lobbyist over the last year.<\/p>\n

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The article is worth reading. Check it out by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Journal also ran an editorial Wednesday calling into question Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019 relationship with Philippou that\u2019s worth your time. Check it out by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote a week ago about a couple of large gifts the developer of The Vistas at Presidio gave last year to a political action committee that, in turn, gave a lot of money to the re-election campaign of state Land Commissioner Pat Lyons. The development is the 6,000-acre project proposed by Las Cruces builder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}