New Mexico Political Blogwire

updated at 14:25

• Heinrich speaks in favor of health care reform

  —New Mexico FBIHOP

  Congressman Martin Heinrich took to the House floor to speak about health care reform today, the day that the House is expected to vote on health care reform.

  Here's the video:

  "Six principles have guided my work here and determined my vote on this legislation: health insurance reform must create stability, contain" [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:18pm EST
  

• Reading versus Blogging

  —Cocoposts

  It's hard to do both. A good book can eclipse everything - bathing, cooking, blogging. The most recent addition to my retirement reading list* is The Death of a President by William Manchester. I was intrigued about it after reading... [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:13am EST
  by Coco la Boca

• Rep. Harry Teague Announces Decision to Vote Against House Health Care Reform Bill

  —Democracy for New Mexico

  

  Congressman Harry Teague (NM-02) released a statement yesterday afternoon explaining that he will be voting against H.R. 3962, the House health insurance reform bill and laying out the reasons for his decision. Rep. Teague said:

  “Let me be clear, I believe we need to reform our [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:57am EST
  by Democracy for New Mexico

• Who in the hell is Lee Roy Lucero?

  —Diogenes'six

  I know him only in that, he posted an hominem attack on my blog.
  
  I had asked UNM President David Schmidly two questions;
  Will you begin and outside investigation?, andWhy were police not involved in investigating criminal misconduct?
  Journal reporter Jeff Wright reported on it. For reasons known only [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:29am EST
  

• Bobcat captured at former home of Las Cruces breeder

  —The Westerner

  A bobcat was captured at the former home of an exotic cat breeder Thursday and another large cat is still on the loose, according to Doña Ana Sheriff's Department investigators. The bobcat was isolated in a tree and shot with a tranquilizer dart to capture it without injury, after which [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:46am EST
  

• Random quote form Massachusetts

  —New Mexico FBIHOP

  From the Associated Press.

  Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank doesn't think all that much of Michele Bachmann or tea partiers, apparently.Frank, a Massachusetts liberal, told an audience: "Some of the people (at the rally) that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are" [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:06pm EST
  

• Digging deeper into claims over Denish's stimulus spending

  —New Mexico FBIHOP

  Heath Haussamen dug deeper into a story "broke" by New Mexico Watchdog, a project of the libertarian group the Rio Grande Foundation, and wrote a great commentary on the money, where it came from, where it went and what was proper and improper.

  Haussamen concluded:Though I'm not certain at all,' [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:03pm EST
  

• Denish’s stimulus spending: What’s the big deal?

  —New Mexico Independent

  Number of comments: 3
  

  There’s been much ado this week following a report from a new Web site about the way Lt. Gov. Diane Denish spent federal stimulus funds she was given in 2003 by Gov. Bill Richardson.

  I’ve been investigating the situation for two days and, frankly, I [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:10pm EST
  by Heath Haussamen

• See for yourself: Documents related to Denish’s use of federal funds

  —New Mexico Independent

  Number of comments: 2
  

  This week, a posting from New Mexico Watchdog reported on how Lt. Governor Diane Denish had spent unallocated federal fiscal stimulus funds in 2003 and 2004 — on Christmas cards, PR and having someone drive her to and from events. The Independent has reviewed the same files that the report’s author, [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:08pm EST
  by NMI staff

• Congressional Roundup: Health care vote Saturday

  —New Mexico Independent

  Number of comments: 1
  

  Although some news outlets reported that there would be no vote on health care legislation until Sunday, a unnamed House Aide told MSNBC’s First Read that there will be a vote tomorrow in the House on health care reform. One New Mexico Congressman, Harry Teague, says he will [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:35pm EST
  by Matthew Reichbach

• Teague to vote no on health care reform

  —New Mexico FBIHOP

  Congressman Harry Teague, D-N.M., issued a release moments ago saying that while he believes "we need to reform our health care system," he will not vote for the House version of a health care reform bill.

  Teague's statement says [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:05pm EST
  

• Teague to vote against House health care bill

  —New Mexico Independent

  Congressman Harry Teague, D-N.M., issued a release late Friday afternoon saying that while he believes “we need to reform our health care system,” he will not vote for the House version of a health care reform bill.

  The statement says Teague is voting against the health care bill because it fails [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:04pm EST
  by Matthew Reichbach

• "Errors" in the Scarantino piece.

  —Diogenes'six

  Jim Scarantino put up a report on spending by Lt Governor
  Diane Denish, link.
  
  A couple of "errors" have been brought to my attention.
  
  The first had to do with Christmas cards. Scarantino wrote;
  "... take Christmas pictures and write Christmas cards ...""... work on Christmas cards" [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:12pm EST