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Reject super PAC lies
Cara Valente-Compton
Recently a shadowy outside group attacked me with outright lies. To be clear, I’m a lifelong Democrat and I ask you to reject these vile attacks.
When I decided to run against longtime, entrenched incumbent Sheryl Williams Stapleton, I set out to change the tone in Santa Fe and restore civility to the process.
I knew it would be a hard-fought race. As a regular citizen, wife, mother of four and law student I was going up against a longtime power broker who would do anything to stay in power. People warned me that I would be called names, attacked, my character distorted and smeared – and that desperate people will do anything they can to keep power.
Recently, a shadowy outside group called the Independent Source PAC, a super PAC created out of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision, attacked me with outright lies.
Worse, they attacked a friend of 24 years with smears against his character using distortions and guilt by association to attack me. This is outrageous, and I call on all citizens of New Mexico to reject these “Karl Rove” like dirty tricks.
As a lifelong Democrat who has 25 years of working for Democratic campaigns and issues, recently for the Democratic Party of New Mexico as well as Senator Tom Udall’s campaign in 2008, I will be a strong advocate for working families, affordable health care, public schools and a woman’s right to choose.
I ask you to reject these vile attacks from my opponent and her surrogates and keep rogue super PACs from trying to tamper with this district’s vote.
We need to change the destructive tone in politics and work to get things done.
Valente-Compton, a Democrat, is a candidate for the District 19 seat in the N.M. House.
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Best wishes to you, Ms. Valente-Compton. The other candidate’s double-dipping a salary and a per-diem while in Santa Fe and her inappropriate racial statement about the Governor are enough to disqualify her from reelection in the eyes of every voter with integrity. Her greed and racial slur are an embarrassment to our party.
This latest episode reinforces the point that all New Mexico Democrats should not only vote for you if in your district but, from throughout our state, send you the resources you need to win.
Stand tall. Courage and integrity usually win out in America, and even when they don’t you can go to sleep each evening knowing your integrity is fully intact. You have the respect of everyone whose respect is worth having.
Here is a wonderful musical video on how super PACs are influencing elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMvG54GjtRI
Thank you Supreme Court for your gross negligence.
You are a brave and courageous woman Ms. Valente-Compton. You are the kind of Democrat so many of us in the party want to get rid of the nepotism, corruption, and hypocrisy of the old guard, machine Democrats this state has become infected with since even before statehood. But as Ms. Espinosa found out, when you take on the entrenched party elites and special interests they represent, be prepared for a war, not just politics. I wish you the best and wish I could vote for you, your district is a mess and badly needs change and hope, as they have none of that today.
Ms. Valente-Compton – you better get used to the Super PAC’s and their vicious attacks.
Independent Source is small potatoes compared to other Super PACs. Look at the Susana PAC and Her Texan political contributions. Here are the political contributions of Independent Source
http://fec-political-committees.findthedata.org/l/17460/Independent-Source-Pac
Thanks to the 2010 “knuckle-headed” Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case, the flood gates have been opened to unlimited campaign contributions and lies funneled through PAC’s.