{"id":4620,"date":"2009-06-03T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/fec-dismisses-complaint-of-illegal-coordination-in-cd1\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:30:00","slug":"fec-dismisses-complaint-of-illegal-coordination-in-cd1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/fec-dismisses-complaint-of-illegal-coordination-in-cd1\/","title":{"rendered":"FEC dismisses complaint of illegal coordination in CD1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This article has been updated.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Federal Election Commission<\/a> has dismissed a complaint alleging illegal coordination of advertising efforts between former 1st Congressional District Republican candidate Darren White<\/a> and the state GOP in last year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

In a May 29 letter<\/a>, the FEC notified White\u2019s attorney, Christopher Collins, that its investigation turned up no evidence that White or his campaign illegally coordinated with the Republican Campaign Committee of New Mexico (RCCNM). The Democratic Party of New Mexico filed the complaint<\/a>, which cited White\u2019s membership on the state GOP\u2019s executive committee as its evidence, last year.<\/p>\n

The complaint alleged that the White campaign illegally coordinated with the RCCNM in the creation of a TV ad<\/a> attacking White\u2019s opponent, Democrat Martin Heinrich<\/a>, who went on to win the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite denies any coordination between himself and RCCNM, and maintains he had no part in creating nor did he assent to the creation and airing of (the ad),\u201d the FEC letter states. \u201cWe have no evidence to the contrary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FEC\u2019s letter also states that RCCNM \u201cmaintained a firewall to prevent coordination with White and the White Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party also filed a complaint last year alleging that the White campaign illegally coordinated with Freedom\u2019s Watch<\/a>, a national group that ran an ad<\/a> that was similar to the RCCNM ad. The Freedom\u2019s Watch and RCCNM ads were created by the same company and contained some similarities.<\/p>\n

The status of the complaint alleging coordination between White and Freedom\u2019s Watch is not immediately known. The FEC\u2019s letter to Collins doesn\u2019t mention Freedom\u2019s Watch or its ad.<\/p>\n

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Update, 11:45 a.m.<\/p>\n

State GOP chairman Harvey Yates released this statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a deliberate attempt to malign the Republican Party and boost the Democrats\u2019 chances of winning in last year\u2019s election,\u201d he said. \u201cThe recent FEC ruling puts to rest any speculation concerning the party\u2019s innocence and highlights the willingness of the Democratic Party to exploit the FEC process for partisan purposes.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article has been updated. The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint alleging illegal coordination of advertising efforts between former 1st Congressional District Republican candidate Darren White and the state GOP in last year\u2019s election. In a May 29 letter, the FEC notified White\u2019s attorney, Christopher Collins, that its investigation turned up no evidence […]<\/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-4620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","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=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}