In today’s edition of the Silver City Daily Press I have an article on campaign finance reports. These articles are usually straightforward, as the reports are tailored to be clear. You find expenditures in one section, contributions from individuals and organizations in another, fundraising events in yet another. I was a bit flummoxed by the [...]

Joe Monahan is reporting this morning that Al Kissling, the Democrat candidate for the 2nd Congressional Distirct, and John Dendahl, a Republican running for governor, will be on KOB-TV this evening at 7. Their opponents — Rep. Steve Pearce and Gov. Bill Richardson, repectively — have refused to participate in televised debates. Many bloggers have [...]

As mentioned yesterday, the state Republican party filed a suit with the New Mexico Supreme Court, in an effort to place two of their candidates on the Nov. 7 ballot, and remove Hector Balderas, the Democrat candidate for state auditor. Balderas replaced Jeff Armijo, who dropped out of the race and then tried to jump [...]

This just in from Las Cruces blogger Heath Haussamen: The New Mexico Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this afternoon regarding the Republican Party’s lawsuit against the secretary of state and attorney general. The hearing is a 4 p.m. today in Santa Fe. The lawsuit alleges that two Republican candidates were unfairly denied spots on [...]

Democracy for New Mexico had some information on the National Republican Congressional Committee spending cash to target Patricia Madrid with negative phone banks. The Committee hired a firm with known ties to Karl Rove to call voters (see the DFNM post for more), but there’s another twist that’s worth exploring. The NRCC is chaired by [...]

At the office we’ve been working on a four-page insert, featuring voter registration information, precint polling locations, and brief profiles of each candidate in the Nov. 7 general election. It’s been a long week. Nonetheless, be sure to pick up a copy of today’s Daily Press. The supplement was the idea of Grant County Clerk [...]

Democracy for New Mexico and, later, New Mexico FBIHOP, were the first to blog about the latest poll numbers in the Patricia Madrid-Heather Wilson race up north. The data is good news for the challenger, as she has closed the gap and is now neck-and-neck with Wilson: The Sept. 25-28 survey in the Albuquerque-based district [...]

I’ll be working in District Court again all day, so I thought I ‘d send you up north, where Democracy for New Mexico has info on Heather Wilson and her “independence” from Bush: As reported in an article published by The Hill, headlined, “Revolt over Wilson bill rocks panel,” a number of moderate Republicans on [...]

Democrat candidate for State Land Commissioner Jim Baca will be in the area this evening. He’ll be at Steve and Denise Blake’s Pinos Altos home, starting at 6:30 p.m. Albuquerque blogger Johnny Mango had a good post about Jim at the Duke City Fix site earlier this week: He pointed to the Sandia Mountains on [...]

As Heath Haussaman is reporting, Jeff Armijo, the embattled state auditor candidate, is dropping out the race: Jeff Armijo announced this morning that he is dropping his fight to remain the Democratic Party’s candidate for state auditor. State Rep. Hector Balderas of Wagon Mound will replace him on the ballot. Joining Armijo at a news [...]

Heath Haussaman comes up with the news and anaylsis regarding this afternoon’s events in the state auditor race: Democrat Jeff Armijo recanted today an earlier pledge to withdraw from the race for state auditor, but state officials say it’s too late. Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron announced late Tuesday that, though Armijo refused to file [...]

(For my post on the NM-01 Congressional race, click here. For my post on the NM-02 Congressional race, click here). We’ve got info on five more New Mexico races, so I’ll get right to it. One of the few really competitive races is that for state land commissioner, featuring incumbent Pat Lyons and challenger Jim [...]