{"id":2382,"date":"2007-10-15T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/wiviott-raises-130k-during-third-quarter\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T22:16:00","slug":"wiviott-raises-130k-during-third-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/wiviott-raises-130k-during-third-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiviott raises $130K during third quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Political newcomer Don Wiviott<\/a>, one of three Democrats who had entered the 2008 U.S. Senate race before Pete Domenici<\/a> announced his retirement earlier this month, raised more than $130,000 during the third quarter of the year. <\/p>\n

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With the entrance last week of Albuquerque Mayor and Democrat Martin Ch\u00e1vez<\/a> into the race, Wiviott has committed to spending $2.1 million on the primary, and says he will fund the amount himself if he doesn\u2019t raise it. The spokeswoman for the Santa Fe<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> developer says he didn\u2019t seriously start soliciting donations until after Labor Day, so most of his cash was raised in three weeks, not three months.<\/p>\n

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Wiviott began the campaign at the end of the second quarter of the year with $400,000 of his own money. He raised $130,083 during the third quarter, bringing the total contributed to his campaign to about $535,000 \u2013 including the money he gave. Wiviott has spent about $160,000. He ended September with $371,711 on hand.<\/p>\n

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Though his campaign finance report isn\u2019t yet online, the numbers were released by Wiviott\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

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As a political newcomer, Wiviott had to start with his own money to build an organization, said spokeswoman Caroline Buerkle. He hired staff and set up an office, and didn\u2019t begin heavy fundraising until Sept. 10, she said.<\/p>\n

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Two other Democrats who were in the race before Domenici announced his retirement 10 days ago \u2013 Jim Hannan<\/a> and Leland Lehrman<\/a> \u2013 haven\u2019t filed third-quarter reports, and didn\u2019t file reports after the second quarter because they didn\u2019t cross the $5,000 threshold that requires it. Ch\u00e1vez, the only Democrat who has entered the race since Domenici announced his retirement, didn\u2019t begin raising money until October, after the end of the third quarter.<\/p>\n

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On the Republican side, U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson<\/a>, R-N.M., who is running for the Senate seat, raised $238,000 for her congressional campaign during the third quarter and had $754,000 on hand on Sept. 30. Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> will transfer all of that money to her Senate campaign. Political newcomer and Republican Spiro G. Vassilopoulos<\/a> also just entered the race and didn\u2019t have to file a third-quarter report.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce<\/a>, R-N.M., who is considering entering the Senate race, raised $251,021 during the quarter and spent $52,040. That left him with $582,312 on hand, all of it money he can spend on a Senate race if he runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Political newcomer Don Wiviott, one of three Democrats who had entered the 2008 U.S. Senate race before Pete Domenici announced his retirement earlier this month, raised more than $130,000 during the third quarter of the year. With the entrance last week of Albuquerque Mayor and Democrat Martin Ch\u00e1vez into the race, Wiviott has committed to […]<\/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-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","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=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}