Pat Lyons & Sandy Jones want to pull a nifty job switcheroo so they can both keep wallowing in the bipartisan cesspool! Dems are too dumb to toss incumbent “madam” Mary Herrera so look for a Republican landslide in the Secretary of State race. The GOP should mop the floors with in-office Dems this year, but there’s a little glass house problem with the (how do I put this delicately/) “ethically challenged” Lyons. Hard to run against slimeball Dems on the PRC when you’ve been the greased pig at the picnic all these years. Powell might not be too exciting, but that could be the the ticket for 2010 — never a whiff of corruption about him (we have GOT to work on that boy if he gets back in).

That, however, is not the point. Ray Powell can’t win the general? You seem to have a very poor grasp of both history and math. Did you, perhaps, move to New Mexico in 2003 or later? Ray hasn’t lost a general election in his life, and he won his last general for Land by the largest margin EVER. As for the 2006 primary, there are reasons that Ray didn’t campaign for that race, none of which are valid any longer. Your point about Southern New Mexico isn’t valid, as Ray has a historically large following in Southern New Mexico, and as for helping Harry Teague, it would be a fascinating and unprecedented reverse-coat-tail effect for a Land race to somehow help a Congressional race.

Ray wins all the typical Democratic strong-holds and demos (something Sandy can’t say), and he also plays well with moderate Republicans (what’s left of them), independents, and ranchers (a typically Republican group of voters).

Matt Rush, by contrast, can only carry conservative Republicans and the oil folks. Will he spend a lot of money? Of course. Can Ray beat him? Handily. Saying that 56% of the Party faithful voted AGAINST someone just because they voted FOR one of three other candidates – NONE of whom qualified for the ballot – is both nonsensical and misleading. What on Earth makes you think that none of those people will vote for Ray instead?

We HAVE to support Sandy Jones in this. He is the only democrat who can take on the republicans in this race. He is the only one from southern New Mexico which helps Harry Teague. Matt Rush from the republican ticket will chew up Ray Powell and spit him out. The results from the convention show that 56% of Democrats at the convention voted AGAINST Powell. We will lose this seat if Powell comes out of the primary.