{"id":3085,"date":"2008-04-11T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/udall-raises-1-3-million-during-first-quarter-of-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T12:49:00","slug":"udall-raises-1-3-million-during-first-quarter-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/udall-raises-1-3-million-during-first-quarter-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Udall raises $1.3 million during first quarter of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R_9ep1vbbWI\/AAAAAAAAFcY\/r0u7Mi-eyFk\/s1600-h\/Udall,+Tom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R_9ep1vbbWI\/AAAAAAAAFcY\/r0u7Mi-eyFk\/s200\/Udall,+Tom.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187969368647757154\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomudall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a> raised $1.3 million in the first quarter of 2008 for his Senate campaign.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That\u2019s more than the $1 million he raised during the fourth quarter of 2007 \u2013 an amount that beat the combined fourth-quarter fundraising totals of GOP Senate candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pearce and Wilson have not released fundraising numbers for the first quarter of this year. Reports must be publicly filed by Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThanks to your overwhelmingly generous support, we\u2019re going to be reporting to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fec.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Election Commission<\/a> that we have raised $1.3 million in the first quarter of this year,\u201d Udall Campaign Manager Amanda Cooper wrote in an early morning e-mail to supporters. \u201cYes, you read that right. Even Tom did a double-take when I told him last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The e-mail provided no other details, including the all-important number of how much cash Udall\u2019s campaign had on hand at the end of the March. At the start of the fundraising quarter, the campaign had more than $1.7 million in the bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis race is far from over and we still have a lot to do,\u201d Cooper wrote. \u201cIt is going to get very, very tough in the coming weeks and months, but I just wanted to make sure that you heard the news from us first, since you made it all possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> raised just under $517,000 in the fourth quarter of 2007 and started 2008 with almost $1.1 million on hand. Pearce raised just under $426,000 during that quarter and started 2008 with almost $820,000 on hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pearce and Wilson are forced to spend much of their money on their tough primary battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Tom Udall raised $1.3 million in the first quarter of 2008 for his Senate campaign. That\u2019s more than the $1 million he raised during the fourth quarter of 2007 \u2013 an amount that beat the combined fourth-quarter fundraising totals of GOP Senate candidates Steve Pearce and Heather Wilson. Pearce and Wilson have not released [&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-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","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=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}