ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The Latest on New Mexico’s congressional races (all times local):
10:45 a.m.
Congressional candidate Pat Davis is bowing out of the race for the Democratic nomination for the open seat based in Albuquerque and is throwing his support behind challenger Debra Haaland.
Davis made the announcement Tuesday in an email message to supporters.
He says he’s putting aside his personal ambitions and asking undecided voters to unite behind Haaland. He described her as the progressive candidate with the best chance of winning.
Haaland is facing former U.S. Attorney Damon Martinez, former law professor Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, attorney Damian Lara and business consultant Paul Moya.
The winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican Janice Arnold Jones and Libertarian Lloyd Princeton in the November general election. The congressional seat is open because U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham of Albuquerque is running for governor.
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11:30 p.m.
A Democratic candidate in a tight race for an open Congressional seat in central New Mexico says she will return campaign contributions given to her by lawyers who had cases pending in the court of her husband, a state judge.
The Albuquerque Journal reports the campaign of Antoinette Sedillo Lopez said last week it will return $2,750 in campaign contributions given to her by seven lawyers. Those attorneys had cases pending before state District Judge Victor Lopez, her husband.
A spokesman for Sedillo Lopez’s campaign, Jason Rodriguez, says she was unaware that the donors had cases before her husband at the time they made the contributions.
He says Sedillo Lopez decided to return the money immediately after the Journal raised the issue with the campaign Friday.
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Information from: Albuquerque Journal, http://www.abqjournal.com
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