{"id":68606,"date":"2015-08-04T13:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T19:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=68606"},"modified":"2015-10-05T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:44:00","slug":"las-cruces-plans-to-start-posting-campaign-finance-reports-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/08\/las-cruces-plans-to-start-posting-campaign-finance-reports-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Cruces plans to start posting campaign finance reports online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_71633\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-71633\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LasCrucesCityHall2-771x501.jpg\" alt=\"Las Cruces City Hall.\" width=\"771\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LasCrucesCityHall2-771x501.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LasCrucesCityHall2-336x218.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LasCrucesCityHall2-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LasCrucesCityHall2-1170x760.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LasCrucesCityHall2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las Cruces City Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the past, if you wanted to see who was donating\u00a0to candidates in\u00a0mayoral, city council and municipal judge\u00a0races\u00a0in Las Cruces, you had to buy copies of reports\u00a0from the City Clerk&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>Related<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/08\/view-las-cruces-2011-2013-campaign-finance-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\">View Las Cruces&#8217; 2011, 2013 campaign finance reports<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Starting with this year&#8217;s Nov. 3 election, the Clerk&#8217;s Office plans to make such finance\u00a0reports &#8212; which\u00a0detail how campaigns are raising and spending money &#8212; available on its website free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Staff in the City Clerk&#8217;s Office still have to work out a few details, said senior office assistant David Aguayo. But &#8220;that is our plan, to go ahead and start putting that information online.\u00a0So many people are depending on the Internet nowadays,&#8221; Aguayo said.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, making\u00a0the reports available online will save time for employees, who in the past have had to copy the documents\u00a0for people who requested them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This makes it easier for everybody,&#8221; Aguayo said\u00a0said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The change will bring Las Cruces in line with New Mexico&#8217;s other most-populated\u00a0cities. <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignfinance.cabq.gov\/PublicSite\/Reports\/Reports.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenm.gov\/campaign_finance_statements_and_participating_candidate_expendit\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Fe<\/a> have been putting finance reports online for years. Rio Rancho has reports from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.rio-rancho.nm.us\/index.aspx?NID=2222\" target=\"_blank\">its 2014 election<\/a>\u00a0online.<\/p>\n<p>Finance reports for candidates in state races such as governor, legislator and district judge are on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfis.state.nm.us\/media\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Secretary of State&#8217;s website<\/a>, as are reports for political action committees.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffery Isbell, a political operative who ran\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_28230924\/las-cruces-city-council-finds-recall-petitions-lack\" target=\"_blank\">unsuccessful attempt<\/a> to recall three Las Cruces city councilors earlier this year, said he&#8217;s\u00a0pleased\u00a0that the city plans to start putting\u00a0finance reports online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I applaud this effort by the city clerk as a step towards greater transparency,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Isbell also encouraged the clerk to post finance reports from the past four years online &#8220;so we can have a full picture of those that may have donated to any incumbents that are running for re-election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether the clerk does that, NMPolitics.net is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/08\/view-las-cruces-2011-2013-campaign-finance-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\">publishing those reports online today<\/a> so the public can easily access them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with this year&#8217;s Nov. 3 election, the Las Cruces City Clerk&#8217;s Office plans to make campaign finance reports available on its website free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[145,214,706],"class_list":["post-68606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-las-cruces","tag-las-cruces-election","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68606","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=68606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}