Guv candidates cover little new ground in Cruces (0)
9/02/10 •
UPDATED: The gubernatorial candidates covered little new ground in separate speeches at the Domenici Public Policy Conference in Las Cruces today, and their only interaction was a brief handshake.
Debt threatens America’s future, Domenici says (4)
9/02/10 •
Reducing the federal government’s massive debt is the most important issue of the day and should be approached like fighting a war, former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici said Wednesday.
McCamley: Hall’s refusal to debate is ‘a shame’ (7)
8/31/10 •
District 5 Public Regulation candidate Bill McCamley says he’s disappointed that his opponent is refusing to debate him several times before the election.
King leads Chandler in two polls (7)
8/31/10 •
UPDATED: Attorney General Gary King has big leads over challenger Matt Chandler in two newly released polls of the race.
Guv candidates talk about changing the Constitution (6)
8/31/10 •
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish wants a new constitutional convention to consider revising the N.M. Constitution. Her GOP opponent, Susana Martinez, agrees with the sentiment behind creating a commission to tackle government inefficiency but says there’s a better way to combat corruption.
Martinez would keep the other state planes (2)
8/30/10 •
UPDATED: Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez has made a big deal about her plan to sell the state’s jet. But as The New Mexico Independent points out today, that doesn’t mean she’s going to sell the other state airplanes – or that she won’t use them – if she’s elected.
Salazar wants thorough probe of Herrera’s office (7)
8/30/10 •
A whistleblower whose lawyer has accused the attorney general of burying an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing against Secretary of State Mary Herrera says he doesn’t share his attorney’s sentiment and hopes that the back-and-forth that has ensued doesn’t distract from his allegations being thoroughly investigated.
Teague, Pearce spar over debate schedule (2)
8/30/10 •
Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate Steve Pearce has an answer to his debate challenge: Democrat Harry Teague won’t agree to 10 – or 18 – town-hall style debates across the district, but he will agree to two TV debates and is proposing his own series of radio debates on specific issues.
Journal polls reveal tight contests for guv, CD1, CD2 (3)
8/30/10 •
New polls of the governor’s race and the 1st and 2nd congressional district contests suggest that the mood in New Mexico isn’t as bad for Democrats as many, including me, previously thought. The bottom line: All three races are still up in the air.
Democratic group’s ad unfairly attacks Martinez (7)
8/27/10 •
The Democratic Governors Association’s new ad accusing Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez of wasting taxpayer money on “special bonuses for insiders” doesn’t pass the smell test – and the DGA’s own fact sheet in support of its ad actually helps prove that the ad’s attack is unfair.
GOP accuses Denish of hypocrisy on vouchers (7)
8/27/10 •
Republicans are accusing Diane Denish of hypocrisy for attacking her opponent’s support of vouchers because Denish used to sit on the board of a foundation that has financially supported vouchers. But Denish says foundations must abide by the intent of donors, and while she didn’t always agree with her uncle, who started the foundation, she was “honored to serve on the board and honor his intent.”
Poll confirms Martinez’s lead over Denish (13)
8/26/10 •
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez has a five-point lead over Democratic opponent Diane Denish in a new Rasmussen Reports poll.
Hall refuses to debate McCamley (5)
8/26/10 •
District 5 Public Regulation Commission candidate Ben Hall has rejected a challenge from his Democratic opponent to debate him several times across the district before the Nov. 2 election.
As scandal grows, Herrera isn’t answering questions (9)
8/26/10 •
As of this morning, three current and former employees in Secretary of State Mary Herrera’s office have confirmed that they have taken allegations of potential criminal wrongdoing to law enforcement agencies.
Ads attacking Pearce aren’t entirely true or false (22)
8/26/10 •
Controversy has swirled around two TV ads from Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund attacking Republican congressional candidate Steve Pearce, with Pearce and others calling the ads false and misleading and Defenders standing by the accuracy of its ads. I’ve been looking into the situation and found that the truth is somewhere in between.
Older Posts
- Obama coming to El Paso on Tuesday
- Embattled magistrate judge resigns
- Albuquerque unveils transparency Web site
- There’s new turmoil in Herrera’s office
- Denish says she’ll comply with aircraft regulation
- PRC hopeful will respond to debate challenge this week
- Guv candidates talk about redistricting
- Both candidates achieved their goals during debate
9/02/10 • Shuckins! At my gas station this week was the dreaded note on the pump: “This gasoline now contains ethanol.” I have changed stations several times this last year to keep from buying E10, gasoline laced with 10 percent ethanol.
9/01/10 • In 2003, Governor Bill Richardson signed legislation to allow those who are in this country unlawfully to obtain a New Mexico driver’s license. Seven years later, however, it is clear this experiment has failed, and yet the state’s chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Gary King, is still defending the policy.
9/01/10 • With nothing to show for it, Governor Bill Richardson has just returned from another so-called “trade mission” to Cuba to meet with the communist regime’s dictators. Meanwhile, New Mexico lags behind other states in exports. Clearly, our state needs to get serious about trade.
9/01/10 • State Sen. Mary Jane Garcia recently accused Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez of misrepresenting her role in the passage of a bill that resulted in tougher penalties for child abuse resulting in death. But the reality is that it’s Garcia – not Martinez – who is misrepresenting the facts.
8/31/10 • In the Southwest, haze hangs over New Mexico’s Pecos Wilderness and many other parks and wilderness areas. Fortunately, we have an immediate opportunity to rectify this situation by ensuring that the biggest park polluters, coal-fired power plants, are finally made to clean up.
8/30/10 • Mayor Berry is considering a $400 million expansion of the Convention Center to become "more competitive with other cities.” I asked a digital guru from Silicon Valley what the future of tradeshows is as an infrastructure investment for cities and here's what he had to say.
8/27/10 • Ok, so here I am one day sitting on the couch and I realize I’m screaming at the television. Why, you ask? Well, I’m so frustrated with the way the country’s going. That’s when I decided I’d either sit here and be part of the problem or do something that would let me be part of the cure.
