{"id":16620,"date":"2010-04-28T14:03:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=16620"},"modified":"2010-04-28T14:03:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:03:08","slug":"southern-nm-left-out-of-training-sessions-on-new-campaign-finance-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/southern-nm-left-out-of-training-sessions-on-new-campaign-finance-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern NM left out of training sessions on new campaign finance system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9733\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9733\" title=\"Herrera, Mary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Herrera-Mary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Herrera<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Secretary of State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/sos-SecBio.html\">Mary Herrera\u2019s<\/a> office plans to hold four training sessions around the state in the coming days to teach candidates how to use its new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfis.state.nm.us\/\">campaign finance reporting system<\/a>, but you\u2019ll have to drive at least three hours to attend one if you\u2019re from Do\u00f1a Ana County.<\/p>\n<p>The office is holding two trainings in Farmington on Friday and plans additional trainings in Albuquerque, Clovis and Santa Fe before the next finance reports are due May 10, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>I asked SOS spokesman James Flores in an e-mail why there aren\u2019t any trainings in Southern New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to secure a computer lab of some sort in the city where the training is going to be held. We thought we had NMSU available, but it didn\u2019t work out,\u201d he replied.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So will there be any trainings in cities other than the four that have been announced?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot at this time,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing near Las Cruces. Nothing near Silver City. Nothing near Carlsbad, Artesia or Roswell. If you live in Las Cruces, you can drive three hours to Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>Flores said there\u2019s another option for candidates who can\u2019t attend one of the four training sessions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs always, candidates and\/or their treasurers can train with our on-line tutorial, or contact our agency for any assistance they may need,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the trainings is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/pdf\/CFISOutreach.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Mary Herrera\u2019s office plans to hold four training sessions around the state in the coming days to teach candidates how to use its new campaign finance reporting system, but you\u2019ll have to drive at least three hours to attend one if you\u2019re from Do\u00f1a Ana County.<\/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],"class_list":["post-16620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620","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=16620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}