{"id":581026,"date":"2018-05-15T09:08:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=581026"},"modified":"2018-05-15T15:38:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T21:38:35","slug":"dem-guv-candidates-raise-big-money-as-primary-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/05\/dem-guv-candidates-raise-big-money-as-primary-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem guv candidates raise big money as primary nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54908\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pictures-of-money\/17123251389\/in\/photolist-s6895e-chEwR9-bH1iX8-bt4mNt-42PQoC-a2YSa6-62QVKf-bta55K-dB7F8e-dK2oa7-aFDjPB-aYWk56-aFATbM-aFAaK6-aFAQEv-snzAJp-QxcaH-s4fksR-cMnty-bZvUDS-bta3kH-brd1K2-62LFqP-dTUAhR-5p8w8o-7jm7SP-8F5t1j-dSZe91-dUSc9a-a5SwX-dSK3tm-biaRHp-68vjKV-68zxeQ-9C9vCS-aFAPtx-9ZA9J6-cXNz15-9kJxyv-b6MUJK-68zxij-aFDkRt-aFDet2-bDwJ11-5DfGXv-bmm93i-55FLSR-aFDcrg-bf3Nge-nQZguc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54908 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Money-771x495.jpg\" alt=\"Money\" width=\"771\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Money-771x495.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Money-336x216.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Money-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Money-1170x752.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Money-780x500.jpg 780w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Money.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Pictures of Money \/ Creative Commons<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newest finance reports were due Monday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two of the three candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for governor have over $1.5 million cash on hand for the final stretch before the primary election on June 5. Early voting has already started.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Joseph Cervantes has now loaned his own campaign over $2 million and raised only about $15,000 from others, according to a report filed Monday. He now has $1.65 million cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham raised over $410,000 and spent nearly $640,000 between April 3 and May 7. She now has about $1.6 million cash on hand.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/837193\/dem-guv-candidates-raise-big-money-as-primary-nears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Mexico Political Report<\/a>,\u00a0a nonprofit news organization\u00a0focused on promoting a greater public understanding of politics and policy in the state of New Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The third candidate, former media executive Jeff Apodaca, raised just under $120,000 and spent almost $180,000. He has just under $265,000 cash on hand ahead of the primary.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce had nearly $2 million cash after raising just over $118,000 and spending nearly $275,000. Pearce does not have an opponent in the primary.<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian Party candidate Bob Walsh did not report raising or spending any money.<\/p>\n<p>Lujan Grisham spent the most out of any candidate in the time period and raised the most money if discounting loans.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce was the only Republican statewide candidate to spend more than $10,000 in the time period. Only two other Republican candidates raised over $10,000. No Republican candidate has a contested primary.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Susana Martinez, a Republican, cannot run for a third consecutive term.<\/p>\n<h3>Commissioner of public lands<\/h3>\n<p>Another hotly-contested primary for Democrats is for commissioner of public lands.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. George Mu\u00f1oz of Gallup raised $13,320 and spent just under $5,500, leaving $211,000 in the bank.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His opponents, State Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard of Los Alamos and Garrett VeneKlasen, each raised more money but also spent more money.<\/p>\n<p>VeneKlasen raised nearly $50,000 and spent nearly $60,000. He still has $75,000. Garcia Richard raised nearly $25,000 and spent a little less. She now has just over $30,000 cash.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Pat Lyons finished with nearly $82,000 cash. He has no opponent in the June primary. Libertarian Michael Lucero raised $5,000 from the campaign of Aubrey Dunn, the incumbent commissioner of public lands who is running this year for U.S. Senate as a Libertarian.<\/p>\n<h3>Attorney general<\/h3>\n<p>Incumbent Attorney General Hector Balderas raised $14,000 and finished with $900,000 cash on hand. He maintains an enormous cash advantage over both of his opponents in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>His Republican opponent Michael Hendricks finished the campaign finance period with $35,000 and Libertarian Blair Dunn finished with $6,000 cash.<\/p>\n<p>None of the candidates have an opponent in the June primaries.<\/p>\n<h3>Other races<\/h3>\n<p>Incumbent Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver has over $135,000 cash on hand, and raised nearly $25,000 in the period. JoHanna Cox is the lone Republican running for secretary of state. She reported just over $5,000 cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian candidate Sandra Jeff raised $5,000 from Dunn\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Col\u00f3n, seeking the Democratic nomination for state auditor, reported raising over $50,000 and has $122,000 cash on hand. Col\u00f3n faces State Rep. Bill McCamley of Las Cruces in the primary. McCamley reported raising over $27,000 but spent nearly $135,000, leaving him with just over $17,000 cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Wayne Johnson, the current state auditor, raised over $16,000 and finished with more than $50,000 cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p>But State Sen. Howie Morales of Silver City reported over $63,000 cash on hand, while Billy Garrett reported over $20,000. Former House Majority Leader Rick Miera did not file his report by press time.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Michelle Garcia Holmes raised over $27,000, while Libertarian Lt. Gov. candidate Robin Dunn raised $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>For State Auditor, Tim Eichenberg finished with nearly $40,000 cash on hand, while Republican Arthur Castillo had just $25.27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest campaign finance reports were due Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2238,705,107],"class_list":["post-581026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2018-election","tag-money-in-politics","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581026","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=581026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}