Ben Ray Luján receives a lot of money from Native American tribes. Steve Pearce gets a ton from oil and energy companies. And political figures ranging from Nancy Pelosi to Donald Rumsfeld have thrown cash at candidates in New Mexico’s three races in the US House of Representatives.

Capitol Report New Mexico took a look at the campaign contributions this year for the three Democrats and three Republicans seeking jobs on Capitol Hill and scanned some of their biggest contributors as well as some with noteworthy political names.

Our survey also reveals that if fundraising is any indication, the three congressional races may be pretty one-sided.

Luján, fellow Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham and Pearce — a Republican — have raked in a lot more money than their respective opponents and in two of those races, their leads are literally hundreds of times larger.

Here are the numbers released earlier this week from the most recent quarter:

1st Congressional District	Net Contributions 5/17-6/30	Cash on hand
Michelle Lujan Grisham (D)	$290,857	$203,606
Janice Arnold-Jones (R)	$70,385	$77,897
2nd Congressional District
Steve Pearce (R)	$223,517	$814,969
Evelyn Madrid Erhard (D)	$14,633	$3,481
3rd Congressional District
Ben Ray Lujan (D)	$102,410	$416,104
Jefferson Byrd (R)	$7,460	$919

Lujan Grisham has nearly three times more cash on hand than Janice Arnold-Jones in CD-1 that makes up greater Albuquerque and is generally considered a swing district between Democrats and Republicans. Arnold-Jones says she’ll narrow that gap in the coming weeks. We’ll see when the next quarterly numbers come out in early October.

But the other races are completely lopsided, money-wise. Pearce has 234 times more cash on hand than Evelyn Madrid Erhard in the district that makes up southern New Mexico while Luján has 452 times more than Jefferson Byrd in the district that makes up the northern part of the state.

There are also some interesting individual contributors.

For example, Lujan Grisham has received $2,500 from state Sen. Lisa Curtis (D-Albuquerque), who was appointed to her state Senate seat late last year after a couple controversial moves.

State Sen. Kent Cravens (R-Albuquerque) resigned his seat with one year left in his term. The district is one of most Republican in the state but Curtis was appointed to the seat by the Democratically-controlled commissions in Sandoval and Bernalillo counties. Lujan Grisham is a member of the Bernalillo County Commission and cast what proved to be the deciding vote in favor of Curtis.

Meanwhile, Pearce received $1,000 Rumsfeld, the controversial former Defense Secretary under President George W. Bush, who lives near Taos. Pearce also has raked in thousands of dollars from contributors and political action committees associated with the oil and gas industry.

Incumbent congressman Luján has become a favorite of Indian tribes — and not just in New Mexico. We counted at least $62,350 from Native American interests, nearly all of which have gaming on their lands.

A couple well-known names in national Democratic Party politics pop up in the search. Former Speaker of the House Pelosi has contributed $2,000 to Lujan Grisham and the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), has given $2,000 to Luján and $2,000 to Lujan Grisham.

Former Gov. Bill Richardson’s wife, Barbara, has donated $1,000 to Luján and another former governor, Garrey Carruthers, has kicked in $1,000 to Arnold-Jones and $1,000 to Pearce.

Here’s a partial list of what we found on the candidates’ reports submitted to the Federal Election Commission:

Lujan Grisham:

$29,966 through earmarks from Emily’s List, a pro-choice national organization that aims to elect pro-choice Democratic female candidates;

$5,000 from the American Federation of Teachers Union;

$2,500 from state Sen. Tim Jennings (D-Roswell);

$1,250 from former Lt. Governor Diane Denish;

$3,400 from Jason Sandel, executive vice-president of Aztec Well Servicing in San Juan County;

$2,000 from Debbie Wasserman-Schultz;

$5,000 from state lobbyist Randy Traynor;

$2,000 from Nancy Pelosi’s political action committee;

Lujan Grisham made out a loan to her own campaign for $95,000

Janice Arnold-Jones:

$3,300 from state Rep. Don Tripp (R-Socorro)

$1,000 from Deborah Peacock, Albuquerque lawyer and chair of the Environmental Improvement Board

$1,000 from former state Rep. Brian Moore

$1,000 from Garrey Carruthers

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Evelyn Madrid Erhard:

$1,000 from the re-election warchest of retiring Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico);

$2,000 from the NEA Fund for Children and Public Education

$235 from J. Paul Taylor

Steve Pearce:

$10,000 ($5,000 apiece) from oil and gas investor Olen Featherstone II and Charla Featherstone of Roswell;

$10,000 ($5,000 apiece) from James Henry of Henry Resources of Midland, Texas (which makes oil and gas machinery) and Paula Henry;

$10,000 ($5,000 apiece) from Angel Salazar of United Drilling, Inc., and Mary Salazar, a special education coordinator, both of Roswell;

$10,000 ($5,000 apiece) from Robert Chase of Mack Energy and Deb Chase of Deerhorn Aviation, both of Artesia;

$9,800 ($4,900 apiece) from Raye Paul Miller of Marbob Energy and Mary K. Miller, both of Artesia;

$9,000 ($4,500 apiece) from Steve Burleson of Burleson Oil and Elizabeth Burleson, both of Midland, Texas;

$7,500 from Koch Industries;

$6,500 from Conoco Phillips Spirit;

$5,500 from Occidental Petroleum Corp.;

$5,000 from Devon Energy PAC from Oklahoma City;

$5,000 from Paul Foster, CEO of Western Refining of El Paso;

$5,000 from Charles Yates of ABO Petroleum of Artesia;

$5,000 from John Yates of Yates Petroleum of Artesia;

$5,000 from Linda Yates of Santo Petroleum of Artesia;

$5,000 from Peyton Yates of Santo Petroleum of Artesia;

$4,000 from Chevron Employees PAC;

$4,000 from Halliburton;

$3,500 from Fred Yates, owner of Yates Energy

$2,500 from Valero PAC of San Antonio, Texas;

$2,500 from Apache Corp. of Houston, Texas;

$2,000 from George Yates, president of Heyco Energy Group;

$2,000 from IPAA Wildcatters Fund;

$2,000 from Marathon Oil Employees PAC;

$2,000 from Andarko PAC from Houston, Texas;

$1,000 from Unisource Energy Corporation;

$10,000 from Deloitte Federal PAC;

$10,000 from the American Crystal Sugar Company PAC;

$1,000 from Garrey Carruthers;

$1,000 from the election fund of Tom Mullins, who lost to Ben Ray Luján in 2010;

$500 from Rep. Zach Cook (R-Ruidoso);

$250 from state Sen. Gay Kernan (R-Hobbs);

$250 from Rep. Anna Crook (R-Clovis);

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Jefferson Byrd:

$2,500 from Cynthia Pearce of Hobbs, who is the wife of Congressman Steve Pearce

Byrd made out a loan to her own campaign for $12,620

Ben Ray Luján:

$5,000 from the Pueblo of Tesuque;

$5,000 from the Pueblo of Isleta;

$5,000 from Ohkay Owingeh;

$5,000 from the Pueblo of Pojoaque;

$5,000 from the Poarch Creek Indians of Alabama;

$5,000 from the Chickasaw Nation in Ada, Oklahoma;

$4,900 from the Pueblo of Laguna;

$4,000 from Deborah Ho of the Mapetsi Policy Group in Washington DC;

$3,700 from the Pueblo of Sandia;

$2,500 from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians;

$2,500 from the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians;

$2,500 from the Gila River Indian Community Council;

$2,500 from the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe;

$2,500 from the San Carlos Apache Tribe;

$1,500 from the Leech Lake PAC Band of Ojibwa in Cass Lake, Minnesota;

$1,500 from the Pueblo of San Felipe;

$1,250 from the Miccosuhee Tribe of Miami, Florida;

$1,000 from the Pueblo of Santa Clara;

$1,000 from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians;

$1,000 from the Morengo Band of Mission Indians;

$10,000 from NY Life;

$10,000 from the International Union of Operating Engineers;

$7,500 from Wal-Mart;

$7,500 from the AFSCME union;

$7,500 from SEIU;

$5,500 from Comcast;

$4,000 from Univision;

$4,000 from Intel

$2,000 from Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Florida);

$2,000 from Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-South Carolina);

$1,500 from state Rep. Brian Egolf (D-Santa Fe);

$1,000 from Barbara Richardson;

$1,000 from former state attorney general Patrica Madrid;

$400 from state Rep. Patricia Lundstrom (D-Gallup);

$500 from state Rep Jim Trujillo (D-Santa Fe);

$750 from former Lt. Governor Diane Denish;

$250 from former Gov. Toney Anaya

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As for the race between Martin Heinrich and Heather Wilson, it’s more difficult to obtain the individual contributions in US Senate races as candidates there go through the Secretary of the Senate first and then through the FEC.

As soon as we get those figures, we’ll comb through them for big donors and interesting contributors. (For example, we reported back in 2010 how Heinrich received $1,000 from Barbra Streisand.)

In the meantime, we do have the overall numbers in the Heinrich-Wilson race, which is quickly becoming one of the most expensive races in the country:

 

US Senate	Net Contributions 5/17-6/30	Cash on hand
Martin Heinrich (D)	$1,417,742	$1,763,770
Heather Wilson (GOP)	$1,624,432	$1,632,518