Kokesh at an antiwar rally in September 2007. Photo by Sage Ross.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had barely begun to give his acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican Convention when a clamor went up [...]
Kokesh at an antiwar rally in September 2007. Photo by Sage Ross.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had barely begun to give his acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican Convention when a clamor went up [...]
Some may view it as a step down and perhaps a lost opportunity but John Sanchez, the 2002 GOP nominee for governor, thinks a run for the 2010 GOP nod for lieutenant governor is just the right fit. He tossed his hat into the ring [...] 
Rep. Campos
Heinrich & BarelaRichard Berry’s campaign reported a mailer, sent by the GOP in the final days of the Albuquerque mayoral election, as an in-kind donation on a campaign finance report submitted Nov. 20. In early November, The Independent reported that the mailer included central messages of Mayor Richard Berry’s campaign platform, but [...]
Al Kaman of the Washington Post picked out some [...]
The two leading GOP candidates for New Mexico governor are notorious for constantly issuing negative press releases blaming Dem gubernatorial candidate Lt. Governor Diane Denish for everything and anything under the sun -- even if she has zero involvement. Come to think of it, I'm shocked Allen Weh' [...]
Hector Balderas
The 2010 election is in full swing, and the governor’s race has already degraded into the usual partisan, nasty mess. In contrast, some prominent Republicans have nothing but nice things to say about State Auditor Hector Balderas, a rising star in the Democratic [...]
GOP's Steve Pearce: Running for seat he sees as powerless
Get a load of this one. The GOP candidate for Congress in NM-02 is running for a job he has dismissed publicly as a position with no clout. After being overwhelmed by now Senator Tom Udall in [...]
It’s taken six months, but I’ve now profiled all four Republican candidates for governor.
I met with each when they made trips to Las Cruces and had time for an interview. The first interview, with Allen Weh, was in June. I met with Doug Turner in August, Janice Arnold-Jones in October [...]
Senate Democrats are growing weary of obstruction and delaying tactics by the Republicans on the health care reform bill that Democrats hope to pass by the end of the year, Talking Points Memo reports.
As Talking Points writes:
After an impromptu caucus meeting on health care, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) [...]
Republicans finally had something to celebrate last night and they took advantage. A large crowd of celebrants--mainly R's--gathered at the downtown ABQ Convention Center to watch Richard "RJ" Berry, the first ABQ GOP mayor in nearly a quarter of a century, take the oath of' [...] If Diane Denish doesn’t like being a victim of negative political attacks, she should stop attacking others, Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones says.
Denish, the likely Democratic nominee for governor, has been constantly under attack from the state Republican Party and two of Arnold-Jones’ opponents in the GOP primary [...]
However, she dragged down John McCain's chances at winning the Presidency and isn't too popular among the populace at large (only a handful in' [...]
I'm sure you've noticed by now that the main political strategy of the GOP, both nationally and here in New Mexico, seems to consist of going negative early and staying negative for the duration. The out-of-power Republican Party, still teetering from its massive losses in [...]
GOP governor candidate Doug Turner will know soon enough whether his decision to unveil TV spots on Thanksgiving Day was a turkey. He says he will do follow-up polling to measure the impact of the commercials unveiled on Thursday on statewide cable and which he [...] 
Antoon & WhiteLast week, Politifact looked at the claim by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that the Senate version of health care reform is longer than War and Peace. The claim was “barely true,” found Politifact, a Pulitzer-prize winning fact-checking Web site from the St. Petersburg Times.
New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall also thinks [...]
If we go by today's floor speeches by Dem Senators -- we now have the 60 votes needed to fend off a GOP filibuster and win the cloture vote on H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A total of 58 Dem Senators will join with [...]
Cravens
Sen. Kent Cravens, a Republican from Albuquerque, announced yesterday that he will join the race for lieutenant governor, the AP reports. He joins a field already crowded with nearly a dozen other candidates, mostly Democrats. Cravens has become known for his work on DWI laws [...]
