{"id":55824,"date":"2015-05-31T22:45:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T04:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=55824"},"modified":"2015-05-31T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T05:07:20","slug":"paper-tackles-lax-enforcement-of-campaign-reporting-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/05\/paper-tackles-lax-enforcement-of-campaign-reporting-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper tackles lax enforcement of campaign reporting laws"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dianna

Courtesy photo<\/p>

Dianna Duran<\/p><\/div>\n

The Farmington Daily Times<\/a> has recently\u00a0done\u00a0some solid reporting to expose\u00a0lax enforcement of New Mexico\u00a0campaign finance reporting laws.<\/p>\n

Most recently, the newspaper reported Saturday<\/a> that the number of violations Secretary of State Dianna Duran has referred to the attorney general\u00a0for possible prosecution remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Duran and Attorney General Hector Balderas announced the creation of a task force<\/a> in late February charged with helping improve\u00a0campaign finance\u00a0reporting oversight.<\/p>\n

The context, from\u00a0the newspaper:<\/p>\n

In early February, The Daily Times reported that during the 2012 and 2014 primary and general elections, Duran had collected only 4 percent of the nearly 2,000 fines her office had assessed<\/a>. The Daily Times reported that she waived 34 percent of the other fines, while failing to collect another 62 percent.<\/p>\n

According to a Daily Times analysis, 14 candidates had filed 10 or more campaign finance reports late during the election cycles, and there were many other repeat offenders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Violations of the Campaign Reporting Act<\/a> and related laws<\/a>, including filing reports that list donors and expenses late,\u00a0are generally misdemeanors. Candidate, political committee and lobbyist finance reports are available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Farmington Daily Times has recently done some solid reporting to expose lax enforcement of New Mexico campaign finance reporting laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55824","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=55824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}