Money pays in NM politics.
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The general election is officially over. The winners are preparing to take office in January while the losers spend their holidays licking their wounds.
In the meantime, 'tis the season to pore through all the campaign finance reports filed during the 2006 election:
Amount of monetary contributions given to
Gov. Bill Richardson
(D) in the three weeks between the Oct. 10 and Nov. 2 filing periods: $1.3 million.
Amount of monetary contributions given to
John Dendahl
(R) during his entire gubernatorial campaign: $301,154.24.
Total expenditures spent by
Dendahl
during his entire campaign: $294,632.38.
Total campaign expenditures spent by
Richardson
in the three weeks between the Oct. 10 and Nov. 2 filing periods: $2.86 million.
Single biggest campaign contribution to attorney general candidate
Jim Bibb
(R) (from the Republican State Leadership Committee): $350,000.
Second biggest contribution to
Bibb
(also from the RSLC): $300,000.
Single biggest campaign contribution given to Attorney General-elect
Gary King
(D) (from the Democratic Attorney Generals Association): $28,000.
Total campaign expenditures made by
King
: $1.59 million.
Total campaign expenditures made by
Bibb
: $1.11 million.
Single biggest contribution to land commissioner candidate
Jim Baca
(D) (from the Richardson for Governor committee): $25,000.
Single biggest contribution to Land Commissioner
Patrick Lyons
(R) (from Patrick Lyons): $68,652.40.
Total amount of campaign expenditures made by
Baca
: $318,486.63.
Total amount of campaign expenditures made by
Lyons
: $1.04 million.
Single biggest contribution to State Auditor-elect
Hector Balderas
(D) (from the Committee to Elect Hector Balderas State Representative): $30,000.
Biggest contributions to state auditor candidate
Lorenzo Garcia
(R) (one each from Texas conservatives Bob and Doylene Perry and one from US Sen. Pete Domenici's, R-NM, political action committee): $5,000.
Total amount of campaign expenditures made by
Balderas
: $196,506.77.
Total amount of campaign expenditures made by
Garcia
: $53,885.19.
Amount that
Balderas
spent for each of his 298,143 votes: 66 cents.
Amount that
Garcia
spent for each of his 246,225 votes: 22 cents.
Single biggest contribution to State Treasurer-elect
James Lewis
(D) (from Richardson for Governor): $10,000.
Biggest contributions given to state treasurer candidate
Demesia Padilla
(R) (two from the Perrys): $25,000.
Single biggest contribution given to Secretary of State-elect
Mary Herrera
(D) (from Richardson for Governor): $40,000.
Single biggest contribution given to secretary of state candidate
Vickie Perea
(R) (from Santa Fe retiree Margaret Story): $60,000.
Total amount of campaign expenditures made by
Herrera
: $308,824.77.
Total amount of campaign expenditures made by
Perea
: $483,449.54.
Amount that
Herrera
spent for each of her 301,862 votes: $1.02.
Amount that
Perea
spent for each of her 254,748 votes: $1.90.
Amount by which
Perea
outspent Herrera during the campaign: $174,624.77.
Number of the six major statewide races (governor, attorney general, land commissioner, state treasurer, state auditor, secretary of state) in which the candidate who raised (and spent) the most money won the election: 5.
