Stuff you need to know, 1.20.23

“Who backed Solomon Pena’s campaign?”
by Joshua Bowling, Searchlight New Mexico
January 19, 2023

Before he was accused of orchestrating the shootings at the Albuquerque homes of Democratic elected officials, Pena was able to win the support for his New Mexico House race of an influential conservative: 80-year-old Harvey Yates, a prominent oilman and former chair of the state’s Republican Party.

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“Magnate opus: The power plays of Harvey Yates”
by Alicia Inez Gusmán, Searchlight New Mexico
December 8, 2020

Yates’s business, Jalapeño Corp., pumped more than $200,000 into last year’s primary and midterm elections, with 90 percent of his donations going to Republican candidates. His campaign contributions in this state were second only to Chevron’s. Did his political influence enable him to win approval of a decades-long ambition of drilling in the Albuquerque Basin?

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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