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New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan

• Noose Tightens On Heather: Pete Won't Play; Pearce Pounding, Plus: GOP Leader Foley Fighting For Life In Primary, And: Teague Says He's Closing In

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  Pearce & Wilson
  The noose got tighter around the political neck of Heather Wilson this weekend, and unless something spectacular happens at the end of the month TV debates, the political intelligentsia say Steve Pearce is positioning himself for a five to [...]
  
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  Posted: May 12, 2008, 12:14am Eastern Daylight Time

Mario Burgos

• Tribute to Senator Pete Domenici

  Peter St. Cyr, a radio reporter for 770 KKOB, has launched a blog. Peter attended the tribute to Senator Pete Domenici this past Friday, and he posted an audio of the entire speech made by Senator Alfonse Demato (retired) from New York. Set aside some time to listen, [...]
  
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  Posted: May 12, 2008, 12:01am Eastern Daylight Time

New Mexico FBIHOP

• Journal Endorses Heinrich, White in CD1 Primaries

  Just like they did in the GOP Senate race, the Albuquerque Journal released their endorsements for the First Congressional District primaries.

  Unlike the Senate race, both Democrats and Republicans have multiple candidates in the field in the First Congressional District race.  And the [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:59pm Eastern Daylight Time

Eye On Albuquerque

• Eye Poll is Back with a Burning Question

  As you have probably noticed by now, we've taken a bit of an Eye Poll hiatus... Well this week the Eye Poll is back and we're taking on the issue of Councilor Cadigan's most recent foray into private businesses O-08-29 (read about it here).
  
  Apparently the Dee Johnson [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 6:51pm Eastern Daylight Time

SWOPblogger

• NY Times article says Obama, McCain camps believe NM is battleground state yet again

  From the NY Times:
  

  ...aides to [Obama and McCain] said Latino voters would be central to victory in a swath of Western states now viewed as prime battlefields, including Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico.

  See the map. [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 6:47pm Eastern Daylight Time

New Mexico FBIHOP

• Journal Endorses Wilson in GOP Senate Primary

  The Albuquerque Journal unveiled their endorsement for the Republican Senate primary today.
  
  In the biggest primary in the state, the Journal endorsed hometown candidate Heather Wilson over Steve Pearce for the Republican Senate primary.  The race between the two is [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 6:40pm Eastern Daylight Time

Democracy for New Mexico

• Prez Candidates to Focus on Independents, Hispanics, New Mexico

  Must read: This article in today's New York Times lays out the strategies that will likely be employed by the McCain and Obama presidential campaigns in the general election. Get ready for a big onslaught by the prez campaigns in the Land of Enchantment. Both campaigns [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 2:40pm Eastern Daylight Time by Democracy for New Mexico

Errors of Enchantment

• New Mexico First in Nation in Senior Deaths from Falls

  According to a new study, New Mexico ranks number one (worst in the nation) in deaths from falls for seniors. New Mexico ranked highest with 99.26 deaths per 100,000 people over the age of 65. Wisconsin was second at 87.35 deaths per 100,000 people over age 65 and [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 2:27pm Eastern Daylight Time

Democracy for New Mexico

• Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Amigos Bravos

  From Amigos Bravos, Friends of the Wild Rivers:
  
  Come celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Amigos Bravos and the launch of a new campaign to establish the constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment in New Mexico. No charge for current members -- this party is for you! Friends who [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 12:55pm Eastern Daylight Time by Democracy for New Mexico

Diogenes'six

• What's in it for Thomas J Lang, Publisher

  of the Albuquerque Journal.
  
  I once asked the leadership of the APS to tell me how many tax dollars go through them to Thomas J. Lang.
  
  They wouldn't tell me.
  
  
  Let's say they spend a half a million a year advertising in the Journal.
  
  
  [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:44am Eastern Daylight Time

• Unless and until the APS Modrall relationship is audited

  all of the most vile and corrupt shit heads in the leadership of the APS
  
  will enjoy the "cost is no object", and "win at any cost"
  legal defense of one of the largest and most powerful law firms in the state; the Modrall;
  
  PaulaMaes' husband's law firm
  [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:07am Eastern Daylight Time

• "What we have here, is a failure to communicate."

  APS Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta
  has failed to communicate.
  
  All she has to communicate to stakeholders
  who pay her a hundred five thousand dollars a year,
  
  is even one single, solitary, good and ethical reason
  
  not to conduct an immediate full scale forensic audit of
  [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:58am Eastern Daylight Time

• Hurting children and their teachers; is not the answer.

  Stakeholders loathe the leadership of the APS.
  
  It is difficult to imagine another group of public servants that are more loathed.
  
  The answer that I am hearing over and over again is;

  Just wait 'til the next school bond or mill levy election;
  I'll show the bastards."

  Which hurts in [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:26am Eastern Daylight Time

Cocoposts

• Senator Scrum

  The Albuquerque Journal covers Senator Shannon Robinson's use of tax money for his rugby obsession. The quest for success hasn't come cheap for University of New Mexico rugby and its politically connected coach, who appears to have free reign over... [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:51am Eastern Daylight Time by Coco la Boca

Diogenes'six

• Speaking of Beth Everitt

  Was she honest with the Aiken County School Board?
  
  Did she tell them that the the APS Financial Division
  was in chaos? That it had been functioning for years,
  for ever actually
  without financially sound policies or procedures?
  
  She had to have known.
  We paid her $200K a [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:43am Eastern Daylight Time

Democracy for New Mexico

• Dedicated to Our First African-American Presidential Nominee

  I just discovered that Wolfgang's Concert Vault now has embed code for much of its material. Nice. I thought this was the perfect time to put up a musical salute to our first Black presidential nominee -- Barack Obama -- on a weekend when he has surpassed Clinton in the [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:30am Eastern Daylight Time by Democracy for New Mexico

Diogenes'six

• Insiders hired to cover up APS' financial woes.

  Gina Hickman is APS' new Chief Financial Officer.
  Within that capacity, she has already made public statements
  minimizing the problems and their root causes.
  
  She has worked for APS before. She is a CPA. She could have,
  she should have, seen the lack of financially sound procedures
  and policies.
  [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:12am Eastern Daylight Time

• APS' budget shortfall

  Rhonda Aubrey's investigators reported on the $20M budget shortfall. link
  
  They blame it on a number of factors; most of which will stand little scrutiny.
  
  Aubrey's news crews failed to mention years and years of waste, a financial department that has few policies and follows even fewer.
  [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:01am Eastern Daylight Time

The Westerner

• Good stories and bad kneesCowgirl Sass ...

  Good stories and bad knees
  Cowgirl Sass & Savvy
  
  Julie Carter
  
  Cowboys, while being rugged individualists, have at least three things in common: a competitive spirit, the love of a good story and bad knees.
  
  The knees are often the result of that aggressive nature [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 6:28am Eastern Daylight Time

• FLEU.S. immigration raids are ...

  FLE
  
  U.S. immigration raids are about to get ugly Letters listing millions of Social Security “no-match” workers are ready to mail to employers. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency personnel are trained and ready. Buses and vans are standing by for raids. Detention facilities have expanded. All that [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 6:26am Eastern Daylight Time