Yup, it's still election season.
Now that the primary election has separated the contenders from the pretenders, we took the opportunity to separate wheat from chaff in the latest campaign finance reports. The following statistics are taken from the July 6 campaign finance filings, the last required of candidates until Oct. 9. The numbers effectively cover each candidate's contributions and expenditures from June 2 until July 5.
Number of pages in Gov. Bill Richardson's July 6 campaign finance report: 250.
Amount of contribution Richardson received from a Las Vegas, NM, McDonald's restaurant: $1,000.
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Approximate number of Big Macs the governor can buy with the donation (excluding taxes): 334.
Estimated amount of time it will take Richardson to scarf down 334 Big Macs: 10 days, give or take some late-night munchies.
Amount that Los Angeles acting instructor Harvey Solin-who once played a maitre' d in a 1983 episode of
Diff'rent Strokes
-gave to Richardson: $25.
Contribution given to Richardson by Pennsylvania management consultant Ben Stein: $150
What we speculate Richardson had to say in order to win Ben Stein's money: "Bueller…Bueller…"
Total amount of six separate donations given to Richardson on June 30 by "Anonymous": $945.
Odds that the contributions came from the same "Anonymous" who wrote the Bill Clinton satire
Primary Colors
: Slim, according to an anonymous source.
Amount Richardson's campaign paid to the Philadelphia firm Campaign Group, Inc. to develop television advertising: $1,019,547.
The last official expenditure by former Democrat attorney general candidate Geno Zamora: $61 in taxes paid to First National Bank of Santa Fe.
Amount that Santa Fe Magistrate judge candidate David Segura spent on a "Campaign Night Staff Dinner" at Tomasita's: $350.
Amount that Santa Fe county assessor candidate (and former state auditor) Domingo Martinez spent on his primary election victory party at Fox's Bar and Grill in Santa Fe: $753.58.
Total contribution that Eric Serna-embattled former state Insurance Division superintendent and current focus of an FBI probe-donated to Domingo Martinez' campaign: $100.
Amount given to Republican attorney general candidate Jim Bibb by "consultant"-cum-Republican-gubernatorial-candidate John Dendahl: $150.
Amount of "in-kind contribution" made to secretary of state candidate (and Bernalillo County Clerk) Mary Herrera by Automated Election Services: $2,175.
Total amount of an "in-kind contribution" given to Lt. Gov. Diane Denish by the Albuquerque Tortilla Company: $100.
Number of six-inch blue corn tortillas you could buy online from the Albuquerque Tortilla Company for $100 (excluding shipping and handling): 792.
Amount of expenditure paid by the Denish campaign for a booth at the Albuquerque Pridefest gay pride event: $37.50.
Contribution given to Denish by Louisiana Energy Services, a company that recently was granted a license to build a uranium-enrichment plant in southeastern New Mexico: $2,500.
Estimated total amount of contributions given to Denish during the July 6 filing period by oil and gas interests: $26,500.
Total amount of contributions, loans and expenditures made to and by Republican state auditor candidate Daniel Alvarez (who faces Democrat Jeff Armijo in the general election) during filing period: $0.
