{"id":705,"date":"2006-10-11T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/richardson-lujan-help-cote-raise-cash-but-marquardt-has-hefty-bank-account-spends-more\/"},"modified":"2006-10-11T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T22:27:00","slug":"richardson-lujan-help-cote-raise-cash-but-marquardt-has-hefty-bank-account-spends-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/richardson-lujan-help-cote-raise-cash-but-marquardt-has-hefty-bank-account-spends-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson, Lujan help Cote raise cash, but Marquardt has hefty bank account, spends more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaign finance reports submitted Monday in most of the local races are not yet on the secretary of state\u2019s Web site<\/a>, but I can get started by reporting on those that are already posted. <\/p>\n

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In the House District 53 race:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Republican incumbent Terry Marquardt began the reporting period with $28,542 in the bank. He raised $12,890 and spent $25,248, leaving him with $16,184 in the bank.<\/p>\n

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The majority of contributions to Marquardt came from various political action committees and corporations, including $750 each from a PNM PAC and a smokeless tobacco company. His campaign donated more than $8,000 to other Republican candidates, including several state representative candidates. Marquardt is in a tough battle within his own party for minority floor leader.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Democratic challenger Nate Cote started the reporting period with $3,307 in the bank. He raised $8,775 and spent $3,312, leaving him with $3,770 in the bank.<\/p>\n

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Cote<\/st1:place> also received in-kind contributions of $7,872 \u2013 $5,300 from Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s re-election campaign and $2,572 from New Mexico Democratic Legislative Campaign.<\/p>\n

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Cote’s contributions included $1,400 from Speaker of the House Ben Lujan and $5,000 from various labor groups.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>In<\/span> the County Commission District 3 race:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Democrat Karen Perez started the reporting period with $1,850 in the bank. She raised $6,761 and spent $5,514, leaving her with $3,097 in the bank.<\/p>\n

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Perez had 11 anonymous contributions totaling $926. Her largest contribution of $250 came from Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> psychologist Dario Silva.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Republican Mack Haley started the reporting period with $4,942 in the bank. He raised $5,555 and spent $5,607, leaving him with $4,890 in the bank.<\/p>\n

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Haley’s contributions included $1,000 from the Committee to Elect Paul Curry, the current District 3 commissioner who is not seeking re-election, and a $750 gift from engineer Jerry Paz.<\/p>\n

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In the District Judge Division 5 race:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Republican Janetta Hicks raised $7,659 and spent $3,947, leaving her with $3,712 in the bank. She loaned her campaign $2,500 and had in-kind contributions totaling $1,225, many coming from employees of the district attorney\u2019s office, where Hicks is a senior deputy district attorney.<\/p>\n

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Hicks had a $200 gift from retired District Judge Jim Martin, a Democrat.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Democrat Lisa Schultz raised $5,686 and spent $3,066, leaving her with $2,620 in the bank. She loaned her campaign $1,400 and had in-kind contributions of $400.<\/p>\n

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State Rep. Joni Gutierrez, D-Las Cruces, gave Schultz $500, and Magistrate Judge Oscar Frietze gave $100. She had two anonymous contributions totaling $71.<\/p>\n

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An earlier version of this posting incorrectly stated that Marquardt, not Cote<\/st1:place>, received contributions from Lujan and labor groups.<\/p>\n

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Campaign finance reports submitted Monday in most of the local races are not yet on the secretary of state\u2019s Web site, but I can get started by reporting on those that are already posted. In the House District 53 race: Republican incumbent Terry Marquardt began the reporting period with $28,542 in the bank. He raised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}