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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Understanding Money’s Growing Influence in Elections
Description: Senior Producer Lou DiVizio speaks with former New Mexico state senator Eric Griego and journalist Trip Jennings about money’s growing influence in our elections. Griego explains the impact the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United has had on funding limits and oversight and the competitive realities of fundraising while running for office at any level of government. In the second part of their discussion, Jennings gives some background on his recent story for New Mexico In Depth highlighting big-money donations from the Chevron Corporation to a dark money group that attempted but failed to squash pr...