{"id":29028,"date":"2011-05-04T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T17:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=29028"},"modified":"2011-05-04T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T17:35:12","slug":"sowards-loans-senate-campaign-150k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/05\/sowards-loans-senate-campaign-150k\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowards loans Senate campaign $150K"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29029\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29029\" title=\"Sowards, Greg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sowards-Greg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Sowards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican U.S. Senate candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Sowards<\/a> has loaned his campaign $150,000, which he says is \u201cseed money\u201d to jumpstart his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Sowards confirmed the loan in an interview with NMPolitics.net.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t the first time he\u2019s backed a run for office with his own cash. Sowards ponied up $325,000 for his unsuccessful 2008 U.S. House campaign \u2013 a race in which he was up against better-funded and more prominent candidates.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, Sowards is facing at least one prominent and, at least thus far, better-funded primary candidate. Former U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherwilson.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> raised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/wilson-raises-more-than-300k\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than $300,000<\/a> in her first few weeks in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltgovernor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Sanchez<\/a> is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/sanchez-says-wilson%E2%80%99s-time-has-passed\/\" target=\"_blank\">seriously considering<\/a> joining the Republican U.S. Senate primary. Like Sowards, he has demonstrated a willingness to self-fund, having loaned his lieutenant governor campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/sanchez-loans-his-campaign-almost-274k\/\" target=\"_blank\">almost $274,000<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>Sowards is using some of his money to hire prominent D.C. consultants. He recently announced that he had retained Tyler Harber and Kurt Luidhardt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospergroupcorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Prosper Group<\/a> for general consulting, online fundraising, and telephone voter contact. He also hired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile\/view?id=44504189&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=Wwgi&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=64087a6c-2b89-4066-8c8b-f104441c6539-0&amp;srchindex=1&amp;srchtotal=4&amp;pvs=ps&amp;pohelp=&amp;goback=%2Efps_*1_Darcie_Johnston_*1_*1_*1_*1_*51_*1_Y_*1_*1_*1_false_1_R_true_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2\" target=\"_blank\">Darcie Johnston<\/a> of Johnston Consulting and <a href=\"http:\/\/mikethomastv.com\/101strategy\/?p=170\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Hatch<\/a> of 101 Strategy Partners to serve as the campaign\u2019s finance consultants. They will focus on national donor operations and campaign finance strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican U.S. Senate candidate Greg Sowards has loaned his campaign $150,000, which he says is \u201cseed money\u201d to jumpstart 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],"tags":[156,116],"class_list":["post-29028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29028","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=29028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}