{"id":3058,"date":"2008-04-02T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/wiviott-loans-his-campaign-another-300000\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T20:47:00","slug":"wiviott-loans-his-campaign-another-300000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/wiviott-loans-his-campaign-another-300000\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiviott loans his campaign another $300,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R_PxJoV6MfI\/AAAAAAAAFZA\/3goxcnCcAHc\/s1600-h\/Wiviott,+Don.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R_PxJoV6MfI\/AAAAAAAAFZA\/3goxcnCcAHc\/s200\/Wiviott,+Don.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184752743784002034\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Third Congressional District Democratic candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfornewmexico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don Wiviott<\/a> loaned his campaign another $300,000 on Monday, bringing the total he\u2019s given his campaign to $890,000.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s a sizable amount of money for a candidate in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to give to his own campaign. Though such self-financing is rare, it\u2019s not unheard of: For example, in 1998, when Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phil_Maloof\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Maloof<\/a> unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/wilson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a>, he gave his own campaign almost $6.5 million, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/herndon1.sdrdc.com\/cgi-bin\/cancomsrs\/?_00+H8NM01158\" target=\"_blank\">FEC records<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wiviott had previously topped $350,000 in personal contributions and triggered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fec.gov\/pages\/brochures\/millionaire.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Millionaire\u2019s Amendment<\/a>, which triples contribution limits in the primary race to $6,900. Though the other candidates can raise more money because of that, Wiviott is giving his campaign money at a pace they probably won\u2019t be able to match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The newest contribution came at the end of the first fundraising quarter of the year and only days after Wiviott released a poll that showed him seven points behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benrlujan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben R. Luj\u00e1n<\/a> in the Democratic primary. He\u2019s trying to make up that gap, and do it quickly. He\u2019ll probably spend much of the money on television ads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wiviott has said he will spend whatever it takes to win the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third Congressional District Democratic candidate Don Wiviott loaned his campaign another $300,000 on Monday, bringing the total he\u2019s given his campaign to $890,000. It\u2019s a sizable amount of money for a candidate in New Mexico to give to his own campaign. Though such self-financing is rare, it\u2019s not unheard of: For example, in 1998, when [&hellip;]<\/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-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}