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Eyes on finances as market nears
Corrections officials have a new way to make sure offenders abstain.
As one of the city’s biggest economic drivers, SWAIA’s annual event affects many
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By Anne Constable
Moms: The real MVPs
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No other event brings more money into the city of Santa Fe’s coffers than the annual Santa Fe Indian Market. It’s a major economic driver, even topping opening night at The Santa Fe Opera.
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The market, held every August on the Plaza, generates some $140 million in sales of art, food, hotel rooms, meals, even gas. That translates into some $12 million in gross receipts taxes and another $5 million in lodgers tax revenues for the city. Yet the sponsor, the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, is often on shaky financial ground, especially in the months before artists start paying their booth fees. This year it was forced to cut its employees’ workweek to four days and reduce benefits. Now, the defections of three key staff members, and the announcement that they
are leading a competing market to be held the same weekend in August, is heightening interest among market watchers in SWAIA’s finances. When things looked especially grim after the resignation of chief operating officer John Torres Nez, Pojoaque Pueblo Gov. George Rivera, a longtime market sponsor, said he submitted a proposal to provide people to run the market. One of his assets is Bruce Bernstein, the former director of SWAIA who was ousted
Please see SWAIA, Page A-8
3 ELECTIONS 2014
Hoping to beat the odds They lack the governor’s funds and national support, but these five Dems think they have what it takes to unseat Martinez BY STEVE TERRELL THE NEW MEXICAN
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he polls aren’t encouraging. The money looks downright grim. The national pundits have been unanimous in their view that Republican Gov. Susana Martinez is destined to be elected to a second term in November. This also was the opinion of the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, who last month angered and disappointed New Mexico Democrats by saying he thought New Mexico was a lost cause this year, so the organization will be spending its cash in more competitive races elsewhere. But that hasn’t stopped five Democrats from trying to beat the odds. Those are Attorney General Gary King; state Sen. Linda Lopez of Albuquerque; state Sen. Howie Morales of Silver City; former chief administrative officer of the city of Albuquerque Lawrence Rael; and retired publisher Alan Webber of Santa Fe. So far, all five have refrained from attacking one another. The only real skirmish between candidates was early in the season, when Rael tried unsuccessfully to get Morales kicked off the ballot. But if there is any bad blood between the two candidates, it hasn’t showed at public forums. Instead, all five are aiming their barbs at the Republican incumbent, sometimes evoking the names of Martinez’s political adviser Jay McCleskey — or this year’s most popular whipping boys for Democrats, the politically active billionaire Koch brothers — to stir up primary voters. So, who is ahead in the Democratic race? Surveys have been scarce, but in the two polls that have been released to the public, King, who announced his candidacy nearly two years ago, was leading the rest of the field, each of whom is suffering from a lack of name recognition. But in different measures of strength, others have looked stronger. Morales scored a huge win at the Democrats’ pre-primary convention (while King limped in at last place.) And in the money race, Webber has a wide lead over his primary opponents — although the Martinez campaign last month reported having $4.2 million cash on hand, nearly 10 times Webber’s total. Today, The New Mexican presents profiles of all the Democratic gubernatorial candidates.
Gary King
Linda Lopez
Howie Morales
Lawrence Rael
Alan Webber
Age: 59
Age: 50
Age: 41
Age: 56
Age: 65
Education: Bachelor’s in chemistry from New Mexico State University; Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Colorado; law degree from The University of New Mexico
Education: Bachelor’s in business management and Master of Business Administration in human resources development from the College of Santa Fe (now the Santa Fe University of Art and Design)
Education: Bachelor’s in biology and special education, Western New Mexico University; master’s degree in bilingual special education, WNMU; Ph.D. in educational management development, New Mexico State University
Education: Bachelor’s in sociology, The University of New Mexico; master’s in public administration, UNM
Education: Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College
Occupation: Attorney general of New Mexico Experience: Twelve years in the state Legislature; general counsel and senior environmental scientist with Advanced Sciences Inc.; policy adviser to the assistant secretary for environmental management and director of the Office of Worker and Community Transition at the U.S. Department of Energy; attorney general since 2006 Personal: He has been married to Yolanda King for 26 years Campaign information: www.garyking forgovernor.com
Occupation: Consultant
Occupation: Hospital administrator (he took a leave of absence last fall to run for governor)
Experience: 18 years in New Mexico Senate; 13 years as Senate Rules Committee chairwoman; finished fourth out of five candidates in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor in 2010
Experience: State senator since 2008; previously was elected clerk of Grant County, a teacher and a high school baseball coach
Personal: She is a divorced, single mother with a 13-yearold son; resides in Albuquerque
Personal: His wife, Teresa, is a psychiatrist, and they have two children, Eleña Maria, 5, and Enrique Luis, 2
Campaign information: www.lindalopez governor2014.com or www.facebook.com/ linda.m.lopez.39? fref=ts
Campaign information: www.morales 4nm.com
New Mexico brothers take different approaches in climate change fight By Coral Davenport The New York Times
WASHINGTON — In the New Mexico of the 1950s, the two brothers grew up steeped in the beauty of the landscape, the economics of energy and the power of science. They
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skied, fly-fished, explored on the family’s 50,000-acre sheep ranch, watched oil towns go boom and bust, and talked of the nuclear weapons up the road at Los Alamos. Today, the work of Robert and William Nordhaus is profoundly shaping how the
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Personal: He and his wife, Kim Sanchez Rael, have three children: Lawrence Jr., 19; Ana, 15; and Benna, 8. Campaign information: www.raelfornew mexico.com
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Experience: Former chief administrative officer for the city of Albuquerque; former executive director of the Mid-Region Council of Governments in the Albuquerque area; former state executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency. He resigned from the USDA job last fall to run for governor.
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U.S. and other nations take on global warming. Bill Nordhaus, 72, a Yale economist who is seen as a leading contender for a Nobel Prize, came up with the idea of a carbon tax and effectively
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Occupation: Has spent most of his working life as a government employee and administrator
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Occupation: Retired publisher, consultant, journalist Experience: Worked as an administrative assistant for the mayor of Portland, Ore.; editorial page editor of the Willamette Week in Oregon; worked as an assistant to the secretary of the Department of Transportation; managing editor of Harvard Business Review; publisher of Fast Company magazine Personal: He has been married 37 years to Frances Diemoz Campaign information: www.alanfornm.com
See complete profiles for the candidates on PAGES A-5, A-6, A-7
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