{"id":802,"date":"2006-11-03T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/huge-gop-donor-plays-in-n-m-races\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:48:00","slug":"huge-gop-donor-plays-in-n-m-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/huge-gop-donor-plays-in-n-m-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge GOP donor plays in N.M. races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Many are wondering about Republican donor Bob Perry of <st1:state st=\"on\">Texas<\/st1:state>, who has inserted himself into <st1:state st=\"on\">New  Mexico<\/st1:state> politics in a big way this year by giving tens of thousands of dollars to Republican statewide candidates in the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placetype st=\"on\">Land<\/st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st=\"on\">Enchantment<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He also gave $20,000 to Isaac Chavez, the Republican seeking to knock off State Rep. Andy Nu\u00f1ez, D-Hatch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As I\u2019ve reported, Perry was the head financial backer of the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg.com<\/a>, he\u2019s the biggest donor in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> politics this election cycle. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=washingtonstory&amp;sid=az5vUvMXA.o4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read more about him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many are wondering about Republican donor Bob Perry of Texas, who has inserted himself into New Mexico politics in a big way this year by giving tens of thousands of dollars to Republican statewide candidates in the Land of Enchantment. He also gave $20,000 to Isaac Chavez, the Republican seeking to knock off State Rep. [&hellip;]<\/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-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}