{"id":627473,"date":"2018-09-19T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=627473"},"modified":"2018-09-19T09:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:31:46","slug":"industry-showers-campaign-funds-on-lyons-who-may-be-their-future-landlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/09\/industry-showers-campaign-funds-on-lyons-who-may-be-their-future-landlord\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry showers campaign funds on Lyons, who may be their future landlord"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sixty percent of Lyon\u2019s $268,000 \u2013 garnered from 172 donations \u2013 comes from companies or individuals employed in the oil and gas or agriculture industries.<\/p><\/div>\n

The campaign accounts of state land commissioner candidates Patrick Lyons, a Republican, and Stephanie Garcia Richard, a Democrat, tell remarkably different stories.<\/p>\n

Sixty percent of Lyon\u2019s $268,000 \u2013 garnered from 172 donations \u2013 comes from companies or individuals employed in the oil and gas or agriculture industries, which are some principle sectors that do business with the State Land Office. Half of that amount, or thirty percent of his total funds, comes from companies that have\u00a0active leases<\/a>\u00a0with the State Land Office. Those lessees are largely oil and gas companies, ranchers or dairy producers.<\/p>\n

Garcia Richard has raised $220,000 from 1,036 donors, 72 percent of which are $200 or less. Her big donors are primarily labor unions and tribes. Only 49 of her donors live outside New Mexico. Seven of her donors are ranchers, contributing a total of $3,875.<\/p>\n

The money advantage going into the general election season greatly favors Lyons. He reported $183,568 on hand in early September, compared to Garcia Richard\u2019s $32,816. Garcia Richard had to spend down her funds in order to win a highly competitive primary election, unlike Lyons.<\/p>\n