{"id":6591,"date":"2009-09-22T07:32:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T13:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=6591"},"modified":"2009-09-22T21:38:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T03:38:44","slug":"colon-says-he%e2%80%99s-already-raised-more-than-100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/colon-says-he%e2%80%99s-already-raised-more-than-100k\/","title":{"rendered":"Col\u00f3n says he\u2019s already raised more than $100K"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Brian Col\u00f3n (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n

Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Brian Col\u00f3n<\/a> is off to a quick start, having already raised more than $100,000.<\/p>\n

Col\u00f3n announced the fundraising number in an e-mail he sent to supporters early today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn less than one month we passed the magical $100,000 mark in our fundraising efforts,\u201d the e-mail states.<\/p>\n

That includes more than $75,000 Col\u00f3n has raised through two events\u00a0 — a kickoff event attended<\/a> by more than 500 people in Albuquerque earlier this month that netted Col\u00f3n\u2019s campaign more than $50,000, and, according to today\u2019s e-mail, a second fundraiser on Friday in which the campaign \u201csurpassed our goal of raising $25,000 in an evening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Col\u00f3n has also raised almost $20,000 through the online fundraising site ActBlue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Col\u00f3n has four other fundraisers planned before the campaign finance reporting period ends on Oct. 5. The e-mail says Col\u00f3n\u2019s campaign has focused on fundraising \u201cto ensure we will have a strong report and compete with candidates who have been raising money nearly two months before we entered the race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other candidates have not been touting their fundraising numbers as openly as Col\u00f3n, so how his fundraising matches up with others isn\u2019t clear. But $100,000 is a historically impressive amount of money to raise so quickly in a lieutenant governor primary race.<\/p>\n

In addition to Col\u00f3n, those who have formally entered the race are Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano<\/a>, state Sens. Linda Lopez<\/a> and Gerald Ortiz y Pino<\/a> of Albuquerque, State Rep. Jose Campos<\/a> of Santa Rosa, and Lawrence Rael<\/a>, executive director of the Mid-Region Council of Governments.<\/p>\n

Sen. Tim Eichenberg<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, has also been making rumblings about running or considering running, but he has not formally declared his candidacy.<\/p>\n

Rael TV ads in the news<\/h3>\n

Meanwhile, Rael has been in the news lately because of 30-second TV spots that could help build his name ID. The TV spot being paid for by the Mid-Region Council of Governments is about motorist safety at railroad crossings.<\/p>\n

Rael is the man who appears in the TV spot. According to The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>, the ads cost the state agency $8,500 to produce and are running for six weeks on cable TV and one broadcast station.<\/p>\n

Rael told the newspaper the ads are about safety, not his candidacy, and began running before he formally entered the lieutenant governor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

From the newspaper:<\/p>\n

\u201cBut pollster Brian Sanderoff of Research & Polling, Inc. said Friday that the best way for a candidate to build up name recognition is a 30-second television spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese ads in particular, Sanderoff said, will help Rael because it links his job to the Rail Runner, which, the pollster said, is a popular program. The Mid-Region Council of Governments is the lead agency in the implementation of the Rail Runner.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Brian Col\u00f3n is off to a quick start, having already raised more than $100,000. Col\u00f3n announced the fundraising number in an e-mail he sent to supporters early today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,107],"class_list":["post-6591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591","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=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}