On Thursday, it was revealed that former gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Ronchetti, a Republican, had filed a lawsuit against his former consultant, Virginia-based GoBigMedia. He is being represented by former Republican Gov. Susana Martinez’s general counsel Jessica Hernandez.
Ronchetti claims the firm botched the launch of his campaign websites during both the 2022 gubernatorial and 2020 U.S. Senate elections. He says the second fail by the company cost him his job as a meteorologist at KRQE 13 News.
The lawsuit alleges that Ronchetti made an agreement with the television network to leave on January 6, 2020 for the Senate race, but GoBigMedia put the campaign website live that evening, which was “leaked” to the media.
The lawsuit states, “The second leak also occurred before Mr. Ronchetti had announced his candidacy, and in fact before he had made his final decision whether to run,” adding, “As a result of this leak, Mr. Ronchetti was forced to resign immediately and without warning from his job at KRQE-TV.”
The botched website operations by the firm caused “financial losses, loss of reputation, damage to his campaign, damage to his employment prospects, and other economic and noneconomic damages,” as the lawsuit reads.
“Filed in Albuquerque during February, the lawsuit does not specify how much money Ronchetti is seeking from Go Big Media but seeks compensatory and punitive damages, accusing the company of unfair or deceptive trade practices, breach of contract and negligence,” noted the Santa Fe Reporter.
Ronchetti signaled a possible new run for office late last month by writing on Facebook, “Thank you all for your kind comments, Krysty and I and the girls appreciate it. There’s a lot of stuff we’ve been working on behind the scenes. We’re announcing one of those things here soon. So stay tuned. And don’t worry…my sleeves are still rolled up.”
Nothing like Mark taking responsibility for his own campaign…… what a joke.
Sad how quickly he concedes and disappears for both runs. We need a real candidate.
We had one, her name was Karen Bedonie
Mark is a very good meteorologist but a lousy GOP candidate for any statewide office in NM. I wish him well in the future.
Mark will probably lose this one too.
In what court here in New Mexico is there justice? The criminal judges are in every court…they have each other’s backs. They are thieves and liars. We expect that the military will do their job and come here to clean the house of treason.
It appears that Pinion Post is taking away freedom of speech. Too bad! This is no outlet for truth. In what court here in New Mexico is there justice? The criminal judges are in every court…they have each other’s backs. They are thieves and liars. We expect that the military will do their job and come here to clean the house of treason.
First off, He was a RINO! My opinion only, he was “Picked” for the GOP spot.
Every debate with MLG HE WON, hands down!! That is how bad she is. We still have not fixed election integrity. Yes, folks it’s “Rigged.” We do not have clean & fair elections in the state of New Mexico!!! This WILL continue…
Yep. People here seem content with just beans & tortllas.
You are all free to move somewhere else, just saying. God Bless your souls.
Wow… I thought died. Where has he been!? What a disgrace to NM and the GOP just like so many in the RPNM. We need reform now, Bedonie is now chair of the LPNM and is pushing to reform it to the conservative New Mexico first party unlike the RPNM. Good for her, I hope the RPNM takes similar steps soon.
Remember when there were 4 twitter teams of NM GOP people who went after Mark Ronchetti early in that run for Senate. I figure they were RINOs. First there was a twitter class in Los Alamos. Since our elections are rigged, he may have even won that seat. I figure he did. Now, that everyone is realizing that Biden and his Cabinet didn’t perfect their Oaths of Office, what if that has been happening for awhile? Remember when MLG’s Lt. Gov., Howie Morales, was found to have an Oath notarized by someone whose notary bond had expired?