{"id":7771,"date":"2009-10-13T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=7771"},"modified":"2009-10-13T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T21:43:32","slug":"turner-loans-self-243k-raises-342k-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/turner-loans-self-243k-raises-342k-overall\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner loans self $243K, raises $342K overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7772\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 325px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7772 \" title=\"Turner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Turner.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Turner (Photo by Heath Haussamen)\" width=\"325\" height=\"245\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Turner (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/turnerforgovernor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Turner<\/a> said in July that he was spending <a href=\"..\/2009\/07\/gops-turner-hires-staff-for-potential-guv-run\/\">\u201cconsiderable\u201d personal money<\/a> as he prepared to run for governor. Today, his finance report proved that\u2019s exactly what he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n<p>Turner raised just under $342,000 during the last reporting period, with the bulk of it \u2013 about $243,500 \u2013 coming in the form of loans from Turner to his campaign. That\u2019s according to <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Documents\/TurnerDoug2009report.pdf\">the cover page of Turner\u2019s finance report<\/a>, which he released today after filing the report with the secretary of state\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Turner also reported a little more than $86,000 in in-kind contributions, so actual cash donations from individuals added up to less than $12,000 between May and October. He spent almost $45,000 during the reporting period and ended it with $211,000 on hand, according to his report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent my time traveling and meeting people. As soon as we kick off the campaign we\u2019ll be staffed up and I\u2019ll be fundraising in earnest,\u201d Turner said in an interview. \u201cI also think that it\u2019s important for voters out there and people looking for a candidate to look for someone who is earnest about what they\u2019re doing. I\u2019ve spent the time meeting people and I\u2019ve told them all the same thing that I\u2019m telling you: This is all self-funded. Anyone who\u2019s relying on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heather_Wilson\">Heather Wilson\u2019s<\/a> donors is probably not planning properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turner has not formally announced his candidacy but has confirmed that he\u2019s running.<\/p>\n<p>Turner opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/allenweh2010.com\/\">Allen Weh<\/a> reported earlier today that he <a href=\"..\/2009\/10\/weh-raises-560k-includes-250k-personal-loan\/\">raised almost $560,000<\/a> in the last reporting period, with almost half of that coming in the form of a personal loan from Weh and his wife to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The other two Republican gubernatorial candidates have not released information about their reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner said in July that he was spending \u201cconsiderable\u201d personal money as he prepared to run for governor. Today, his finance report proved that\u2019s exactly what he\u2019s done.<\/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-7771","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\/7771","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=7771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}