{"id":7914,"date":"2009-10-15T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T22:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2009-10-16T07:47:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:47:01","slug":"teague-raises-257k-in-the-third-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/teague-raises-257k-in-the-third-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Teague raises $257K in the third quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Rep. Harry Teague (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n

U.S. Rep. Harry Teague<\/a>, D-N.M., raised $257,000 for his re-election campaign from July to September.<\/p>\n

Teague\u2019s campaign said he has $757,000 on hand for his re-election bid, which puts him almost $300,000 ahead of his challenger, former U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce<\/a>, a Republican.<\/p>\n

However, Pearce didn\u2019t enter the race until the start of the fundraising period that just ended. In that time, Pearce quickly gained ground by raising just under $508,000<\/a> \u2013 nearly twice what Teague raised in the same period.<\/p>\n

In a news release announcing his fundraising for the quarter, Teague talked about the work he\u2019s done since he took office in January:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the primary reasons I ran for Congress was because I thought people in Southern New Mexico needed and deserved a representative who would listen to them and who would stay in touch with the district instead of packing up and moving to Washington,\u201d Teague said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am proud to say that, since January, I\u2019ve been able to meet with thousands of constituents in all corners of our beautiful and diverse district,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been in New Mexico visiting with constituents for all but three weekends since I was sworn in and I\u2019ve already held over 60 public \u2018Harry in Your Hometown\u2019 events.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teague said he is \u201cproud of the level of support our campaign has received\u201d and he is \u201ccommitted to raising the resources necessary to get our message out and defend against the extreme partisan attacks already underway.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026but right now I am more focused on staying in touch with constituents and doing the work I was elected to do — like turning our economy around, ending our dependence on foreign oil so we can build the energy economy here at home in New Mexico, and fighting for our veterans who have been neglected for far too long,\u201d Teague said.<\/p>\n

Teague did not say how much cash he spent during the last quarter or release other information from his finance report. The report is not yet available on the Federal Election Commission\u2019s Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pearce, according to his report<\/a>, spent about $48,000 and ended the quarter with $459,612.80 on hand. According to the report, $452,395.06 of the money he raised came from individual donors, and the other $50,450 came from political action committees.<\/p>\n

The Pearce campaign said 80 percent of his contributions came from 1,100 New Mexicans.<\/p>\n

A prior version of this posting contained incorrect numbers, but they have been corrected. Teague\u2019s news release states that he has \u201cbanked\u201d $757,000 thus far, which I took to mean that he had raised that amount thus far, and that\u2019s what I originally wrote. After this article originally published, Teague\u2019s spokesperson called to say the release actually meant that Teague had $757,000 on hand at the end of the third quarter, and I updated this article accordingly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATED: U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., raised $257,000 for his re-election campaign from July to September. He ended the third quarter with almost $300,000 more on hand than his challenger, Republican Steve Pearce, but Pearce raised nearly twice as much as Teague in the quarter.<\/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-7914","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\/7914","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=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}