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It's time for change at the Republican Party of New Mexico

We're 200 Strong and Growing

Fellow State Central Committee Member,
Concerned Republicans for New Mexico is a group of Republican State Central Committee members
numbering just over 200. Weve seen how this years race for RPNM Chairman is shaping up, and we have
some thoughts we wish to share with you which we feel are extremely important.
We would appreciate it if you would read our argument and position regarding this race.
As party members, we want a smaller government; lower taxes; a more family-centric society. We hold
personal responsibility and self-government at the core of our values, and wed like to see them as our
governments guiding light. Were also responsible for electing an RPNM Chairman capable of building a
party organization an organization that effectively assists Republican candidates with their
campaigns. Without victory at the voting booth, injecting our values into government is just wishful thinking.
Our State Party is currently in disarray, as it was two years ago, and two years before that, and so on, with a
record of disorganization and failure going back more than a decade. Harvey Yates didnt accomplish

anything as the RPNM Chair, and neither did Allen Weh. They did busy themselves with embroiling the
RPNM in some extremely damaging primary races. In 2008 they succeeded in losing two Congressional
seats, as well as a seat in the US Senate. They even blatantly took sides in that years first congressional
district primary. Then there was the 2010 gubernatorial primary which many of us want to forget, but which
continues to shape the discord in our State Party seven years later.
In 2012 Harvey Yates and Allen Weh got Steve Pearce to endorse our former RPNM Chairman. The two
subsequent years saw a stagnant organization that severely divided the party. It not only wasted a large sum
of donor money, but also sequestered itself, refusing to help our candidates in any meaningful way.
In 2014 Harvey Yates and Allen Weh again convinced Steve Pearce to endorse our current RPNM
Chairwoman, Debbie Weh Maestas (Allen Wehs daughter). Shes allowed all manner of bad behavior to
overtake her administration: RPNM staff bullying primary candidates, grossly negligent spending habits, and
an unreasonably willful rejection of good ideas brought to party leaders. Maestas even went as far as
planning an endorsement of Marco Rubio in the Republican Presidential Primary. On a $15,000 trip to South
Carolina for the presidential primary debate, she and her staff spent $4,000 of donor money on a limousine for
the event in efforts to woo Rubios favor. In a recent email to donors, Maestas touted her $1.7 million haul of
donations. The FEC, however, disagrees with her facts, stating that the RPNM brought in under $1.5 million
for the cycle. Here are the rest of the facts about RPNMs spending:

$175,000 of donor money was spent on Albuquerques Payroll Company, an accounting firm, even
though the RPNM had a bookkeeper/accountant on staff for 22 of the last 24 months.It is unclear as to
why this number is so high, or why Maestas chose to use a firm that the Democratic Party of New
Mexico also uses.Its possible that she was paying her staff members payroll taxes for them, instead
of withholding those funds as a regular employer might.

RPNMs political director was hired while under the thumb of a bench warrant, but has managed to
receive an unusually hefty compensation for the last two years.Before taxes and after health insurance
(Maestas used donor money to pay for the health insurance of her staff), he took home $142,000 over
24 months, or roughly 10% of all donations to the RPNM.

Total staff expenses, including food, gas, airfare, limousine, car washes, health insurance, and socks
(yes, socks), came to around $850,000.

Maestas couldnt raise enough to keep the lights on in September and October, so Steve Pearce was
gracious enough to send her $50,000 of his own campaigns money to help.

Maestas activities were planned and sanctioned, in their entirety, by Weh and Yates, and weve now seen
how completely damaging to the RPNMs reputation their behavior has been. After such massive election
losses across New Mexico, donor confidence in the party is extremely low! Those $1.5 million in donations

could have helped Paul Pacheco, Christina Hall, Vicki Chavez, Andy Nunez, Terry McMillan, John
Zimmerman, Sharon Stover, Neal Hooks, Jeremy Tremko, Diego Espinoza, Blair Dunn, Eric Burton, Lisa
Torraco, Lee Cotter, Ceil Levatino, Charles Wendler, Ted Barela, Nora Espinoza and Steve French all good
candidates who rallied to the Republican cause, but fell short of victory on election day.
It was more important to Allen Weh and Harvey Yates that Debbie Weh Maestas, someone with absolutely no
campaign or party-building experience, be elected RPNM Chair, than it was for Republicans to keep the
House and win the Senate.
Its now 2016, and in the wake of a disastrous election season in New Mexico, Allen Weh and Harvey Yates
have dug up another candidate for you Ryan Cangiolosi who already has the support of some traditionally
big names in New Mexico politics. Soon youll see the same group of names on Cangiolosis endorsement
sheet that Debbie Weh Maestas had just two years ago, and which previous chair candidates had as
well. Weh, Yates and Cangiolosi wish to repeat the patterns of Debbie Maestas administration by re-hiring
the same disruptive and underperforming staff, continue the same wasteful spending, and inspire the same
party division thats plagued us for years.
It should be abundantly clear by now that Weh and Yates are not in the business of picking capable party
leaders. Theyre in the business of spending donor money on salaries for their own former employees and
campaign staff. It should also be clear that despite their substantial wealth, both Weh and Yates expect
donors to foot the bill for their chairman candidates poor leadership and bad ideas. If we allow the RPNM to
continue down this same road, the capability of our organization to raise donor money will cease. When that
happens, all political funds in New Mexico will funnel directly into the pockets of Jay McCleskey.
For the sake of the RPNM and its ability to function, our party must unite and succeed. No more party
division. No more poor spending habits. No more picking sides in primary races. We claim to be the party
that wants more of a meritocracy, so lets prove it.
We appreciate the time youve taken to read this, and while the Concerned Republicans for New Mexico have
many members, we will choose to remain safely anonymous. Just as our founding fathers did in their
discussion of constitutional matters, as well as in their revelatory and controversial media presence, we feel
we must anonymously speak truth to power. There is no more power in politics today than that of a billionaire
and the political operatives in his employ.
Respectfully yours,
Concerned Republicans for New Mexico
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P.S. If you don't believe us, check out the facts yourself by searching for the Republican Campaign

Committee of New Mexico at the website of the Federal Election Commission.

P.S.S. If you feel strongly about opposing the failing status quo at the RPNM, speak to
your county party chair and let him or her know how you feel. Your vote on December
11th matters.

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From: Concerned Republicans for New Mexico <CRforNM@gmail.com>

Date: December 2, 2016 at 7:04:35 AM MST
To:
Subject: What IS Cannot Easily Be Undone
Reply-To: <CRforNM@gmail.com>

It's time for change at the Republican Party of New Mexico

The Establishment
It may be apparent to some of us in the SCC that our former RPNM chairmen are attempting to
continue their influence in the party by selecting and promoting their new candidate for chair,
Ryan Cangiolosi. It should be even more apparent that theyre doing it with your donations.
The RPNM has held many previous events at locations like Hotel Albuquerque and La Fonda of
Santa Fe. These venues cost a lot of money to rent (anywhere from $2500 to $6000). When
the RPNM charges $60 per attendee and $25 for proxy votes, you would expect that those
charges are necessary to cover costs, especially considering that theyre asking for that money
from their grassroots faithful, and not from a group of high-dollar donors.
However, this time theyre sending us to a public high school gym, which is either free to rent, or
costs $400 (fees that pay for a couple weekend janitorial staffers). There are around 500 SCC
members. Only 450 members cast votes at this event in 2014, half in person and half by
proxy. If we assume there will be a similar turnout this year, thats around $18,000 the RPNM is
pulling in from this event.
In our previous email, we mentioned that Chairwoman Maestas needed hefty donations from
Congressman Pearce just to keep the lights on in September and October, even though the
RPNM kept around a dozen staffers on their payroll. Forty-five days later, with the same staff to

pay, we can be assured that our event fees are being used to pay that same staff.
but the election is over. New Mexico Republicans lost horribly. Donations were squandered
by poor leadership and an inefficient, ineffective staff. Why are we still footing the bill for these
staffers? Why does the RPNM continue to send out emails promoting what they claim to be a
successful election year?
Theres one reason:
The RPNM staff is loyal to Harvey Yates and Allen Weh (not the voters and not the SCC). Yates
and Weh promised them jobs in a Cangiolosi administration. As youre reading this, these
staffers are actively supporting Ryan Cangiolosi by gathering proxy votes for him. They know
that if they do this, and if Cangiolosi becomes RPNM Chair, he will take them to national
conventions, find them staff positions in the Roundhouse, and eventually get them appointed to
state government jobs. How do we know thats the case? Because thats how Ryan Cangiolosi
got his jobs by political appointment.
This is what we have come to know as The Establishment. The Establishment is a selfperpetuating entity that does one thing: It looks out for its own interests.
So, on December 11th, when you cast your vote for the new RPNM chairman, keep in mind that
that you paid for the iPads the RPNM staff will be using for electronic voting. These iPads,
which cost literally tens of thousands of dollars, are going to allow the RPNM staff to tell you who
the next RPNM chairman will be, and who is hired as a staffer for the next two years.
There will be no paper trail and no accountability.
Sincerely,

Conerned Republicans for New Mexico

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From: New Mexico Republicans for Fiscal Responsibility <jetjackson1999@outlook.com>

Date: December 4, 2016 at 4:32:39 PM MST
To:
Subject: RPNM Chair Race: Follow the Money
Reply-To: New Mexico Republicans for Fiscal Responsibility <jetjackson1999@outlook.com>

For SCC Members of the Republican Party of New Mexico

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It's Time for a Big Change at the RPNM!

Follow the Money

Today were going to shed some light on three different items:

Item #1 Weve done some extensive investigating of what happened at Fridays
Bernalillo County Republican Party breakfast meeting. Ryan Cangiolosi touted
his position in the Harvey Yates administration of the RPNM as a great
accomplishment. He then brought up his time working with Jay McCleskey for
Governor Martinez. He jumped back and forth between 2010 and 2016, so it
was a confusing presentation that left party members unsure of whether he was
auditioning for the job of chair or the job of field director. It was also apparent
that Cangiolosi has been working with Debbie Maestas RPNM staff for several
months. Perhaps that's why she and her staff have chosen him to succeed her.
RPNM staffers Todd Johnson and Josh Spann were in attendance Friday to
support Cangiolosi. These staffers also supported Yates in his campaign for
national committeeman, when they made sure to remind everyone of how much
Yates spent to support Democrat Tim Jennings against Republican Cliff Pirtle
(our current State Senator). These RPNM staffers will follow Yates' money just
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about anywhere. They'll support a guy who backs Democrats for senate when
it's convenient (Jennings was backed heavily by Yates and his friends in the Oil
& Gas industry). However when their RPNM jobs were at stake they were
suddenly trying to "take back the senate." It's a good thing Pirtle won otherwise their attempt at taking back the senate would have been that much
more difficult. One might wonder why Lisa Torraco lost her senate seat by
such a slim margin, and the easy answer is this: RPNM staffers had to be
paid. Cangiolosi cites Yates as a masterful RPNM boss, so we have to wonder
which party's candidates the RPNM will be backing if he gets elected, or if
they'll back any candidates at all.
It was publicly mentioned at the end of the meeting that not a single RPNM
staffer is a member of the Bernalillo County Republican Party, even though
they all reside in the area. Cangiolosi is an ex-officio member of the county
party, but does not pay dues or attend party meetings. According to the
Bernalillo County Secretary, it is debatable whether Cangiolosi will actually be
able to vote for himself at the upcoming meeting on December 11th since he
hasnt paid the county dues necessary to recertify himself for a spot on the
SCC.
The images below show the following:
1) The only donation on file with the NM Secretary of State's website in 2016 is the $45
registration fee for this year's pre-primary covnention.
2) It only takes one simple google search to find all the controversial items cooked up by
Cangiolosi and McCleskey while they worked together in Gov. Martinez' administration. This is
just one picture of items from the FBI's investigation into 'emailgate.'
3) One of Harvey Yates' contributions to Democrat senate candidate Tim Jennings' campaign in
2012.

Item #2 In early 2015, chair Debbie Maestas began making payments from the
RPNM to Agenda LLC, a company owned and run by former gubernatorial
candidate (and an old pal of hers) Doug Turner. Monthly payments from the
RPNM to Turners company were listed with the FEC as payments for website
development. Payments began at $3000 per month, decreasing to $2000 and
eventually $1000 when 2016 rolled around. These payments totaled over
$24,000. Turner supported Maestas in her 2014 bid for chair.
The RPNM website, which is arguably just a tool for propaganda (but which
also gives people contact information for the party), serves no real purpose
except to direct donors to a payment venue. A comparable website can be
purchased for less than $1,000 per year. For that amount it would be adorned
with all the bells and whistles any business or political party could ever want.
The images below are FEC filings which show some of the RPNM's payments to Agenda LLC at
various times over the past two years.

Item #3 If you've been receiving campaign emails from Ryan Cangiolosi, youll
know that theyre actually not being sent by Ryan Cangiolosi himself. Theyre
being sent by Doug Turners company, Agenda LLC (see Item #2). If youve
saved your old emails, you can go back and look at the first one sent by the
Cangiolosi campaign (picture shown below). In the picture you can see the
bottom of the email showing that it was sent by Agenda LLC.
In the Cangiolosi campaigns later emails (another sample picture shown
below), that small detail has been changed to simply read "Ryan Cangiolosi for
State Chair" but lists the same address as before: 400 Gold Ave SW
Albuquerque. That's the address of the Simms building where Agenda LLC is
located, which is also shown in the first picture (a building owned by Doug
Turner).
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400 Gold Ave SW Albuquerque is also the building where far left liberal
Democrat Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham rents one of her offices for
$3657 per month (picture of US House Financial Expenditures shown below).
Did we mention that RPNM chair Debbie Maestas husband Steve is also a
contributor to Congresswoman Lujan Grisham? This particular donation found
its way into her coffers while she was running against a Republican in 2014s
midterm election (picture of his donation filed with the FEC shown below).

All of this raises some very interesting questions:

Does Doug Turner expect the same lucrative website deal from Ryan
Cangiolosi that he got from Debbie Maestas? He certainly wouldnt want to
lose his $24,000 deal.
Will more Republican donor money end up subsidizing the office of an
extremely liberal Obama supporter?
How can Doug Turner take money from Michelle Lujan Grisham on a monthly
basis and still be an advocate for someone campaigning to be the chair of the
RPNM?
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intertwined with money thats been laundered through the congressional office
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From: Republican Party of New Mexico <contact@gopnm.org>

Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 9:01 AM
Subject: Anonymous Slanderous Emails
To: john.pb45@gmail.com

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Dear State Central Committee Member,

Over the past week, you may have received anonymously authored
emails from Concerned Republicans for NM and Republicans for
Fiscal Responsibility spreading falsehoods about the Chairman,
staff and Party operations over the last two years. They have
unlawfully been using the RPNM logo in these emails as well.
These emails have leveled slanderous attacks on the character and
integrity of several individuals in the Republican community. While
RPNM supports and encourages robust debate on all relevant
issues, including Party leadership, these anonymous emails go well
beyond the spirit of the good faith dialogue that has been a hallmark
of Republican politics.
Indeed, the decision to anonymously send out deceitful lies to tear
down other Republicans is wrong, and clearly demonstrates a lack
of integrity and character.
The Republican Party of New Mexico, in consultation with our legal
team, has done its investigative research and has uncovered that
these emails come from accounts registered to Carla Sonntag and
family.
While people are entitled to their individual opinions and preferences
in any election, underhanded and divisive tactics such as these are
counterproductive to our shared cause, undermine the efforts of all

Republicans, and such actions should not be tolerated.

We urge you to check the facts. The Party is in strong financial
condition, used funds judiciously, and worked tirelessly this cycle on
behalf of our candidates. Upon the successful election of our new
Party Chairman and Party Officers, we are confident that the new
administration will continue to advance our collective mission and
build upon the strong foundation weve laid over the past two years.
We must put aside factional divisions and fight for all Republicans
across New Mexico and our country. We look forward to seeing you
all at the meeting this weekend.
Respectfully,
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From: Sylviabokor@aol.com
Date: December 6, 2016 at 7:05:21 AM MST
To: Sylviabokor@aol.com
Subject: Msgs: RPNM + New Mexicans For Fiscal Responsibility

"Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot
exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries." -- Ayn
Rand

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++
SylviaBokorCommentsNewsletter -- December 6, 2016
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++
Dear New Mexicans,

--- 2 items ---

MESSAGES
1. From the Republican Party of New Mexico, Albuquerque [Editors Note:
the following e-mail was sent to State Central Committee Members. I am not an
SCC member but it was forwarded to me at my request.
My interest in this controversy was initiated because I originally supported Harvey
Yates in his bid for National Committee member. However, the attack on Carla
Sonntag is grounds enough without the issue of my past support of Yates -- to
forward the following two messages.
After you have had time to read and digest both arguments, I will comment in a
future Newsletter.]
-----------------------------------Dear State Central Committee Member,
Over the past week, you may have received anonymously authored emails
from Concerned Republicans for NM and Republicans for Fiscal
Responsibility spreading falsehoods about the Chairman, staff and Party
operations over the last two years. They have unlawfully been using the
RPNM logo in these emails as well.
These emails have leveled slanderous attacks on the character and
integrity of several individuals in the Republican community. While RPNM
supports and encourages robust debate on all relevant issues, including
Party leadership, these anonymous emails go well beyond the spirit of the
good faith dialogue that has been a hallmark of Republican politics.
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Indeed, the decision to anonymously send out deceitful lies to tear down
other Republicans is wrong, and clearly demonstrates a lack of integrity
and character.
The Republican Party of New Mexico, in consultation with our legal team,
has done its investigative research and has uncovered that these emails
come from accounts registered to Carla Sonntag and family.
While people are entitled to their individual opinions and preferences in
any election, underhanded and divisive tactics such as these are
counterproductive to our shared cause, undermine the efforts of all
Republicans, and such actions should not be tolerated.
We urge you to check the facts. The Party is in strong financial condition,
used funds judiciously, and worked tirelessly this cycle on behalf of our
candidates. Upon the successful election of our new Party Chairman and
Party Officers, we are confident that the new administration will
continue to advance our collective mission and build upon the strong
foundation weve laid over the past two years.
We must put aside factional divisions and fight for all Republicans across
New Mexico and our country. We look forward to seeing you all at the
meeting this weekend.
Respectfully,
The RPNM Team
+++++++
2. From Concerned Republicans for New Mexico, for Fiscal Responsibility -The email [above] was sent out by the RPNM on Monday. The following is
our response to its blatant hypocrisy.
We assure you that Carla Sonntag had nothing to do with any of this, and
are entirely unaware of her political opinions regarding the RPNM and the
race for chair.
The willingness of the RPNM to slander a person who is completely
uninvolved, without ANY PROOF of involvement whatsoever, in an effort
to defend themselves from what they consider to be slander, is utterly
preposterous. How do we know they have no proof? They didn't show us
any proof. It's our opinion that Carla Sonntag should immediately pursue
legal action for slander/libel against the RPNM for its transgression.
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Why? Because political figures are not legally immune to criticism that
might be considered libelous, while private citizens are. Carla is a
private citizen that isn't affiliated with any of this. In fact, she runs a
501(c)3 organization that isn't allowed to get involved for tax exemption
purposes. Then there is the allegation that the RPNM's legal
representation is somehow involved. The only legal representation that
the RPNM might have had would have come from Mickey Barnett or Pat
Rogers. We can be pretty sure that Pat Rogers wants nothing to do with
Harvey Yates or his RPNM staffers, and Mickey Barnett (along with his law
firm staff) are way too smart to get involved in an alleged libel case
against private citizens.
We've been sending out emails for about a week now, and we're unaware
how Harvey Yates came up with "two years." If one week is two years in
'Yates time,' then perhaps he should be busying himself with more
pressing concerns.
Regardless, since we've begun communicating with the SCC, large number
of people have responded to our emails, all of which are critical of
Cangiolosi, Weh, Yates, and Maestas, and these people ask us why we
communicate anonymously.
We respond by stating that "It's for our own safety." And now everyone
can see why: because the RPNM staff does not care who it
slanders. Harvey Yates does not care who he slanders. Ryan Cangiolosi
doesn't seem to mind that if he's elected, Tucker Keen, Todd Johnson,
Josh Spann, and all the other staffers will be slandering Republicans for
two more years, regardless of evidence or consequence, and that YOUR
DONATIONS will be paying for them to do it.
The below email from the RPNM tries to sound convincing in its
condemnation of our anonymous argument against Congiolosi and the
current RPNM administration (as well as Yates bizarre desire to wield
political influence over that administration).
In the face of OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE that there are some serious
problems with the current RPNM Maestas administration and the
successor they've chosen to blatantly support, they simply cry "SLANDER!"
without refuting a single point we've brought up. Some might say it
sounds like the Democratic Party crying "RACISM!" when it has no
legitimate argument for electing far left lunatics that are quite literally
trying to dismantle our rights and our country. We say "We need fiscal
responsibility from the RPNM!" and they respond with "SLANDER!" We just
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had 18 months of that garbage, but now it seems we're due for one more
week of it... only this time it's coming from our own side.
It's also worth noting that our news media is completely unable to put the
kind of information we're reporting on display. Instead they rely on
Harvey Yates' public statements and report them as fact. They do so
because they're unwilling to publicly challenge his complete lack of
political talent, or call him a failure. They behave in such a neglectful
way because Yates is an oil magnate that wields large amounts of
influence in the business community. One must wonder where Harvey
Yates political record would take him if he didn't have $2 billion in his
bank account. With no money and no record of political success, his
endorsement of Cangiolosi would mean less than nothing.
Finally, everyone knows that Jay McCleskey has been the reason for
Governor Martinez success. Yates has made sure that it's been hammered
into our brains for 6 years that McCleskey is the imp perched on the
shoulder of the devil herself, and he's not afraid to talk about it in front
of large swathes of the party. Now, when Yates wants to prop up
Cangiolosi's non-existent record, he claims that it was really Cangiolosi
that was responsible for Martinez' success.
Well, which one is it? Tell us, Harvey: which one should we hate and
which one should we vote for?
We will remain, respectfully, anonymous.
The Concerned Republicans for New Mexico, for Fiscal Responsibility
and Free Speech, which we fight for until there's an election within
our party.
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From: Ryan Cangiolosi for State Chair <ryan@ryanfornm.com>

Date: December 9, 2016 at 12:55:36 PM MST
To: <jearnoldjones@aol.com>
Subject: Important Message from Harvey E. Yates
Reply-To: Ryan Cangiolosi for State Chair <ryan@ryanfornm.com>

Dear Fellow Central Committee Member:

Your cyberspace and mine were crowded by anonymous, lengthy attack-missives the last two weeks. After I
identified the initial ones as tripe, I set aside the subsequent ones. (My initial inclination is to ignore such
attacks. I think that the good judgment of voters, in this case the Central Committee members, usually results
in the filth merchants sinking themselves in their own mud.) But, I had a little extra time today, so I read the
later emails.
Anonymity gives license to be careless or to lie. It is difficult to hand an anonymous writer a report
card, but nonetheless, lets look at a sampling of the claims made.
Ms./Mr. Anonymity Claims:
That The RPNM staff is loyal to me. Were that true, I would be humbled, though surprised. I barely know the
staff. The one exception is, Political Director, Todd Johnson. I met him several years ago when he was
introduced to me by John Rockwell, for whom he worked.
That Doug Turner owns the building at 400 Gold Ave. SW and, that he rents space to Congresswoman, Lujan
Grisham. This is false. Both Turner and Lujan Grisham are tenants in the building. The ownership of the
building could have been checked in the county property records, but wasnt.
That I have $2 billion in my bank account. This claim is related to the recent sale of Yates Petroleum, a
company in which I have never had an interest. This could have been checked, but wasnt. (And, I have
somewhat less than $2 billion in my account.)
That Debbie Maestas misdirected money which hurt this election. This, and much else in the missives, is an
attempt to expunge the record of Jay McCleskey who, from 2012 through 2016, caused the diversion of more

than $1,700,000 in Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC[1]) money from what could have been
state party, candidate-support activities. Instead, the money went to two PACs controlled by McCleskey. The
partys and the candidates lack of a portion of the money was particularly telling in 2016 as Republicans beat
Sen. Michael Sanchez, but lost the house by a mere 1,150 votes, or so. In other words, Republicans won a
battle, but lost the war, while Martinez/McCleskey anti-Sanchez vengeance was served.
And, finally
In each of these anonymous missives, Ryan Cangiolosi has been viciously attacked with despicable
falsehoods and lies. Those of us throughout the state who have been fortunate enough to have worked with
Ryan for nearly a decade know his commitment to life, dedication to the party, belief in hard work and his
extensive experience in business, politics and public service.
It was surprising to all of us that the IT Detective hired by RPNM found that the IP address being used to
dispatch the anonymous emails was established by Carla Sonntag and a son, and that it was registered at
Carlas old home address. Immediately following the revelation, a new, poorly written, rather inane,
anonymous email was issued. On the one hand it assured us that Carla was not responsible for anonymous
emails, but on the other hand, it admitted that people had been libeled by the emails. The writer suggested
that Carla sue RPNM for the revelation and explained, Why? Because political figures are not legally immune
to criticism that might be considered libelous, while private citizens are. Think about this statement! I read it to
mean that public figures can be libeled, and one can get away with it, because it is difficult for a public figure
to prevail in a libel suit. But why bring that up at all? It seems to be an inadvertent admission that public
figures have been libeled by the emails. I agree.
Several things need to be done to clean-up the party, but surely one of them is to show our mutual disdain for
anonymous missives such as those which have been sent in this campaign. If a person knows that his
statements will be laid at his doorstep, that person, more likely, will take care that his statements are truthful.
I look forward to seeing you on the 11th.
Regards,

Harvey E. Yates, Jr.

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From: Rocket Racer <nmfreespeech@gmail.com>

Date: December 10, 2016 at 8:36:19 PM MST
To: NMfreespeech@gmail.com
Subject: Fwd: RPNM: The Greatest Show on Earth (and other details of the race for RPNM chair)

Theres so much to talk about today, but we want to address a few main items:

Item #1: We hate to say "I told you so," but it's becoming more and more obvious that all the
same endorsements of Debbie Maestas from 2014 are being filed this year for Ryan
Cangiolosi. This is, once again, the party establishment trying to perpetuate control over the
RPNM and run it even further into the ground with bad ideas, party division, and horrible
spending practices that will cost us dearly in 2018.

Item #2: Carla Sonntag has given the RPNM notice that she will file a defamation lawsuit
against them.

Item #3: Harvey Yates sent an email through the Ryan Cangiolosi campaign yesterday. In that
email he defended Ryan Cangiolosi, RPNM staffers, Doug Turner, and Debbie Maestas against
our criticisms. He also defended the RPNMs baseless slander of Carla Sonntag and her
family. Despite Yates claim that he doesnt know the RPNM staff and that they arent helping
him or Cangiolosi, Yates knows that the RPNM has hired an Information Technology
Detective. This is their attempt to hunt us down and silence us for leveling legitimate criticisms
against all of them. DID THE RPNM STAFF TELL ANYONE ELSE BESIDES
YATES? No? That means the RPNM is spending money on finding an internet address
belonging to a cafe that provides free wi-fi. It also means that the RPNM is trying to defend
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Cangiolosi against our criticisms. Its clear that all this information is being shared between
Yates, Cangiolosi and the RPNM, and that they are working together to tell you who our next
RPNM chair will be.

Harvey Yates has an ownership stake in the RPNM. He wants to run the show, which is
why hes pushing for his former RPNM staffer (Cangiolosi) to become chair. Its also why
he pushed so hard for Debbie Maestas to become chair in 2014.

Item #4: Of course Doug Turner endorsed Ryan Cangiolosi for RPNM chair. Of course his
endorsement email was sent by the Cangiolosi campaign, located in Dougs building, run by
Dougs company. OF COURSE Doug wants that contract with the RPNM for a $24,000 website
to continue. Turner hasnt made any effort to refute the evidence of his $24,000 website
contract. Instead, in his email to the SCC yesterday, Turner stated that this race for RPNM chair
has become downright nasty. Nasty might be a good way to describe the Trump-Cruz primary
feud which involved the candidates wives, but not a way to describe legitimate criticisms
against people with a direct monetary stake in winning this chair election.

Item #5: Harvey Yates called us filth merchants, and stated that, while the SCC would usually
be able to see through our claims, he felt the need to clarify things for all of you. After all,
youre incapable of making up your minds without his sage, billionaire advice. The most
important thing to note is that he defends the poor spending practices of Debbie Maestas and her
RPNM staff by saying that Jay McCleskey is guilty of committing the same crime. If your
friends rob a bank, does that mean its ok for you to do it too? Who defends bad behavior like
that? As a former Martinez staffer, Ryan Cangiolosi was the one that got involved in
McCleskeys email scandal that resulted in an FBI investigation. But according to Yates logic,
they should both be innocent (or guilty, depending on how you look at it).

Item #6: We would like to whole-heartedly address Harvey Yates claim that Debbie Maestas
and her staff didnt grossly neglect their responsibility to spend wisely. We would like to
illustrate some of the horrible spending practices of the RPNM staff that have taken place over
the past two years. This process began in our initial email last week by bringing up the
following:

Political Director Todd Johnson received around $140,000 worth of compensation just
about 10% of the total funds raised by the RPNM over two years time.
Total staff costs for the RPNMs two years of expenses came to around $850,000.
An accounting firm was paid between $3,500 and $5,500 monthly to keep the books for
the party, even though the party has had a volunteer treasurer for two years, as well as a
paid bookkeeper on staff for almost all of that time. Total accounting costs for the past
24 months have totaled around $150,000.
Doug Turners company, Agenda LLC (running Ryan Cangiolosis campaign for chair)
received $24,000 to build and maintain the RPNM website, and we can assume he wants
to keep that contract.
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We went ahead and gathered more RPNM spending data for you to look over.

Buckle your seatbelts because its about to get crazy.

RPNM hired a monthly cleaning service which cost them about $8,500 in total. Our
faithful staffers were good enough to spend our donor money, but were too good to
vacuum once a week (or to hand that task over to a paid intern).
Armed Response Team of Albuquerque was paid almost $5,000 for office security. Last
time I checked, Republican Party members are practically bristling with weaponry and
our candidates are falling all over themselves to get NRA endorsements.
Internet access is extremely important for any political operation these days, but thats a
cheap service. RPNM paid over $7,000 for internet and cable TV in the office.
RPNM spent almost $2,500 for picture frames.
Almost $4,000 was spent on new iPhones that purchased at the local Apple store for
several staffers (4 to be exact) right around November 8th.
RPNM gave $1,500 to NMSU for a scholarship fund which is obviously the partys
job.
In addition to spending an absurd amount of money on the RPNM website, an equally
ridiculous amount was paid for tech support. Monthly payments of between $1,000 and
$4,900 were paid to a local company for their IT services. In total this cost more than
$75,000 over two years. I have no idea what this amount of money could pay for, except
that we can fathom a brand new PC laptop at Best Buy with a ton of software might cost
$2,000 with all the bells and whistles. Maybe the RPNM has 37 new full loaded laptops
lying around now.
Over $20,000 was spent on iPads and voting software for the Pre-primary and
Quadrennial conventions. I seem to remember paper ballots working just fine, but
perhaps the lack of accountability provided by voting software will help us to do things
more like the Dems.
Around $42,000 was spent on hiring a polling service around the time of the
primary. Many legislative campaigns contributed to help pay for this effort, including
those that lost in the general election. According to an email from the RPNM staffers,
they made 250,000 calls in their GOTV efforts. If they had made that many calls they
wouldnt have needed to hire a polling firm.
The Quadrennial convention venue rental at Sandia cost $20,000 for one day. This paid
for Allen Weh and Susana Martinez to face off for the privilege of announcing who New
Mexicos Republican delegate votes were being allocated to at the RNC in
Cleveland. Thats one expensive rivalry were paying for, especially since we already
knew Trump had won the nomination.
The limousine Debbie Maestas rented for the South Carolina primary debate cost
$3,900. The one she rented in Cleveland cost another $3,900.
Frank Luntz was an expensive date. It cost over $21,000 to get him here for the
Quadrennial.

The Republican nominating convention in Cleveland amounted to a massively wasteful

expenditure for the RPNM. As far as we know, in previous years it was up to the delegates to
cover their own expenses for the convention. We would like to assume that they did, for the
most part, cover those costs (hotel, airfare, food, transportation), but we cant be sure simply
because the cost RPNM reported for food in Cleveland was astronomical.
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Weve already mentioned the $3,900 limo.

Almost $3,000 was spent on polo shirts. We assume these were top-of-the-line shirts,
and that all the delegates and staffers got one. We also hope theyre worth the cost of
$110/shirt.
Nearly $6,000 was spent on four hotel rooms.
A management consultant from Cleveland was hired for $2,500. Its unclear why.
Meeting facility costs came to about $6,000.
Food costs came to a staggering $6,500.

The total cost of the Quadrennial convention and the RNC in Cleveland came to $89,000. Keep
in mind that these activities had absolutely no impact on legislative or statewide races in New
Mexico. Perhaps Paul Pacheco or John Zimmerman could have used some of that money to win
their house races! But wait theres even more.

During the final push before the election, in October and early November, RPNM began their
phone banking operation. A couple of their Albuquerque staffers belong to a fraternity at UNM,
and so they paid the fraternity around $5,600 to get their members to make voter calls. They
paid many more staffers in the Albuquerque and Las Cruces areas to do the same. Altogether,
the callers they paid cost about $11,000. There are too many FEC records on this to post all of
them, so youll have to take our word for it. However, the RPNM staff claims to have made a
collective 250,000 phone calls, which is simply not possible given that the staff spent almost no
time recruiting volunteers and ended up paying people for their time (there are no FEC records of
the RPNM paying callers until October).

Mail costs for the RPNM's October/November push came to about $116,000. All mail was
outsourced to a consulting company in Florida. This amount would pay for roughly 300,000
pieces of mail. The phone systems, voter data, and the paid callers came to around $28,000. The
software and iPhone application costs for door knocking cost about $9,000.

All told, the expenditure for RPNMs voting operations cost about $153,000, or less than
10% of their total alleged fundraising intake of $1.7 million.

According to the FEC, RPNM also has about $180,000 in the bank as of 11/28. Couldnt they
have used that money to help our legislative campaigns?

According to the voters, we lost the state house and are even worse off in the state senate than
where we started. We have a far-left college professor for a secretary of state. New Mexico
voted overwhelmingly democratic, and all we get from the Ryan Cangiolosi campaign is We
can use iPhones when we knock on doors. What ever did we do before everyone had a smart
phone?
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2018 is a massively important year. Well have races for governor, US senate, three US house
seats, secretary of state, land commissioner, auditor, treasurer, 70 state house seats and countless
county/municipal races. The media is already an unfriendly entity proving to be a huge obstacle
for all Republicans.

According to Harvey Yates and Doug Turner, we should trust Ryan Cangiolosi to head an
RPNM staff that attacks fellow Republicans, hunts critics, wastes hundreds of thousands of
dollars in donor money, and wants to continue a decade-long rivalry within the party. Dont we
remember 2009 and 2010 when Harvey Yates ran the RPNM as Cangiolosis boss, and when the
RPNM didnt accomplish anything except turning the gubernatorial primary into a comedy of
errors?

We can only hope that, for the sake of our party and our state, that we choose a better path.

We remain, respectfully, anonymous.

P.S. At the bottom of this message you can see the clips filed by the RPNM with the FEC
which show their spending. In some cases weve included the first and last instance of an
item to demonstrate the duration of time the expenditure took place (the FEC requires
monthly reports).

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