{"id":9481,"date":"2009-11-16T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=9481"},"modified":"2009-11-16T22:25:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T05:25:32","slug":"state-dem-party-chairman-involved-in-movie-studio-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/state-dem-party-chairman-involved-in-movie-studio-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Party chairman involved in movie-studio project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8912\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8912\" title=\"Gonzales, Javier\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Gonzales-Javier.jpg\" alt=\"Javier Gonzales\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Gonzales<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Javier Gonzales was named chairman of the state Democratic Party in September, I reported that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/gonzales-named-chairman-of-state-democratic-party\/\">worked for Santa Fe Studios<\/a>. Several of you e-mailed me at the time to ask what that was.<\/p>\n<p>The Albuquerque Journal answered that question this weekend. It\u2019s a taxpayer-funded project to build a movie studio in Santa Fe. But the story is much more interesting than that. From the Journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt sounds like a pretty sweet deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cState government gives you $10 million and local government loans you another $6 million to build a movie studio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve bought a site, also from the county, but you don\u2019t have to start paying for it until you start creating jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour only contributions up front for the studio, expected to cost $18 million to $20 million to build, are the construction design, your experience in the film world and posting collateral equal to one-third of the county loan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the arrangement made by a company led by a couple of Hollywood veterans, with help from prominent local politico Javier Gonzales, a former Santa Fe County commissioner and currently state Democratic Party chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBackers of Santa Fe Studios say the economic benefits of the new development, to be located south of the City Different, will more than justify the millions in public financing for the two-stage, 40,000-square-foot facility.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/15233114state11-15-09.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Javier Gonzales was named chairman of the state Democratic Party in September, I reported that he worked for Santa Fe Studios. Several of you e-mailed me at the time to ask what that was. Here&#8217;s the answer.<\/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":[135,107],"class_list":["post-9481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-democratic-party","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","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=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}