By Kevin Hendricks, The New Mexico News — If you live anywhere between Albuquerque’s South Valley and El Paso and own a TV, you already know somebody really wants your vote in the 2nd Congressional District. Actually, several somebodies – and each has several million dollars.
Campaign donors and outside political action committees have spent or promised at least $21.8 million on the race between Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez and Republican challenger Greg Cunningham. Voters settle it today.
Vasquez has raised $5.5 million,more than double Cunningham’s $2.5 million, according to Federal Election Commission filings through Oct. 14. Of that, Vasquez had spent $5.06 million and Cunningham had spent $2.18 million. Each candidate had a few hundred thousand dollars left to spend, but the biggest late spenders weren’t the candidates themselves…