{"id":1830,"date":"2007-06-08T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/06\/17-months-before-election-steinborn-holds-fundraiser\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T16:46:00","slug":"17-months-before-election-steinborn-holds-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/06\/17-months-before-election-steinborn-holds-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"17 months before election, Steinborn holds fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In yet another sign that we\u2019re in a state of perpetual election cycles, state Rep. Jeff Steinborn<\/a>, D-Las Cruces, is holding a fundraiser on Saturday. <\/p>\n

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He\u2019s up for re-election in November 2008.<\/p>\n

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The event is billed on the invitation<\/a> as a \u201cspecial reception\u201d sponsored by a number of people, including former state Rep. J. Paul Taylor, Do\u00f1a Ana County Commissioner Karen Perez<\/a> and Don Kurtz, one of the organizers of the Quality Growth Alliance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The invitation requests a $50-per-person donation to \u201ctalk with Jeff\u201d and \u201cenjoy good food and wine.\u201d It will be held at a home on the west side of Las Cruces, outside Steinborn\u2019s district<\/a>, which includes parts of the north side of Las Cruces and runs along the west side of Interstate 25 to Radium Springs.<\/p>\n

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In his first six months in office, Steinborn has been an active representative who was one of about 10 elected officials who helped work out a compromise on reform of the state\u2019s housing authority system during this year\u2019s session. He was also recently named to the governor\u2019s reconvened ethics task force.<\/p>\n

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Steinborn works for the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance<\/a>, which is currently campaigning for the creation of a number of wilderness areas in Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> Ana<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>. He\u2019s also proposing a committee made up of legislators, city councilors and county commissioners to review local government development policies and try to rework them to give the public greater influence over the process.<\/p>\n

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The liberal conservationists who campaigned for Steinborn in 2006 were among the most passionate supporters of any House candidate. But the district he represents is fairly moderate and, knowing he\u2019ll be one of the top targets of the GOP again in 2008, Steinborn has made an effort to reach out to moderate and conservative voters.<\/p>\n

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This year, the Legislature approved a Steinborn-sponsored memorial<\/a> creating a legislative interim border affairs and security committee to consider a number of issues related to being a border state. He also sponsored a bill<\/a> that would officially define terrorism and make it a crime in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. It passed the House unanimously and made its way though two Senate committees, but died because the full Senate never voted on it.<\/p>\n

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Steinborn knows he\u2019ll have to keep reaching out to his district\u2019s diverse voters if he wants to keep his seat. Following the retirement last year of former Rep. William \u201cEd\u201d Boykin,\u201d Steinborn had to spend more than $100,000 to defeat Republican Scott Witt by 309 votes and win the right to represent District 37.<\/p>\n

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He outspent Witt by about $50,000 to become the first Democrat to hold the seat in 14 years.<\/p>\n

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A prior version of this article failed to clarify that Steinborn\u2019s terrorism bill passed two Senate committees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In yet another sign that we\u2019re in a state of perpetual election cycles, state Rep. Jeff Steinborn, D-Las Cruces, is holding a fundraiser on Saturday. He\u2019s up for re-election in November 2008. The event is billed on the invitation as a \u201cspecial reception\u201d sponsored by a number of people, including former state Rep. J. Paul […]<\/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-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","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=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}