Misc.

We let the media know early yesterday that we would be donating to charity the funds we received from Jeffrey Epstein of New York who allegedly paid underage girls for sex. We will be giving this money to the rape crisis center and various environmental groups. The money will be doled out over the course of the campaign since we have not taken huge donations from those who do business with the State Land Office. My opponent has raked in over $700,000.00 from those who have oil and gas, agricultural and real estate leases with the Office. It is time for Public Financing of this office and I will work for it when elected.

On another note, UNM has forced my opponent to back down on his refusal to negotiate in good faith on land for them in Rio Rancho for a new campus. Since he got in hot water over what UNM Regents called a "sweet heart deal" that he gave to a land developer while in negotiations with UNM, he has been trying to explain away his no-bid lease to special interests. That is the real problem here, not so much the land values but the fact that Pat Lyons has given out a half dozen or so 'over the counter' deals to real estate developers without making them bid against each other. This costs the land office lost revenues which should be going to the classrooms for our kids.

The Lobos scored one against the Land Commissioner.