{"id":36219,"date":"2012-02-06T09:32:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=36219"},"modified":"2012-02-06T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:37:03","slug":"nmpolitics-net-reaches-10-percent-of-fundraising-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/02\/nmpolitics-net-reaches-10-percent-of-fundraising-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"NMPolitics.net reaches 10 percent of fundraising goal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, Jim Collie, a retired Presbyterian pastor who lives in Albuquerque, donated $750 to NMPolitics.net.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve done your homework, or better said, for me, most importantly, you seem to almost always ask the next question \u2013 you don\u2019t accept at face value an explanation or answer that has little merit, or obscures more than it clarifies,\u201d Collie said in explaining why he supports NMPolitics.net with his money.<\/p>\n

Collie recalls local media in West Texas during his childhood developing local stories that put the news in context. That doesn\u2019t happen as often today.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith localized reporting and stories of merit lost to the national homogenizers, what you are doing is so on target and so tasty as to be of great value,\u201d he said. \u201cWould you be insulted if I compared what you do with news to what organic gardening means to vegetable growers \u2013 the taste and value well worth the extra trouble? In other words, for this New Mexican: You pass the taste\/value test.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not offended at all. I love the comparison.<\/p>\n

Jim and the others who donated last week gave a combined $1,880, or just over 10 percent of the $18,000 I\u2019m trying to raise by April 30 so I can hire a reporter. I want to publicly thank them for helping NMPolitics.net expand.<\/p>\n

But your donations don\u2019t just help the site grow \u2013 they keep it going.<\/p>\n

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Heath Haussamen<\/p><\/div>\n

NMPolitics.net is supported in part by advertising and syndication of content, but donations are essential to its survival. And while I\u2019m highlighting today the large donation Collie made, any amount helps \u2013 even $10. Make a donation by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More details<\/h3>\n

You can give a one-time contribution in any amount, or you can sign up to have your credit or debit card automatically charged $10 or $20 each month with the ability to cancel at any time.<\/p>\n

Those who sign up for automatic contributions will receive a monthly newsletter containing exclusive analysis and interesting tidbits about what\u2019s happening in New Mexico and news about NMPolitics.net. Those who give a one-time contribution of at least $120 will also receive the monthly newsletter for a year.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re already signed up to make monthly donations, you don\u2019t have to do anything. Unless you cancel them, those contributions will continue automatically and so will the delivery of the newsletter to your inbox. If you receive the newsletter because of a one-time contribution you gave last year, you\u2019ll need to make another donation of at least $120 to continue receiving it.<\/p>\n

Your contribution will be publicly listed<\/a> along with others on NMPolitics.net, and it\u2019s not tax-deductible. Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to read NMPolitics.net\u2019s entire financial contributor policy.<\/p>\n

If you can afford to do so, make a donation today by clicking here<\/a>. Thanks for your support!<\/p>\n

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Jim Collie of Albuquerque and the others who donated last week gave a combined $1,880, or just over 10 percent of the $18,000 I\u2019m trying to raise by April 30 so I can hire a reporter. Join them! Click on the headline to make a donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,10],"tags":[134,137],"class_list":["post-36219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-haussamen-columns","tag-media","tag-news-about-this-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36219","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=36219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}