Today, former Republican New Mexico Guv Gary Johnson launched a “special advocacy committee” called the OUR America Initiative. According to the inaugural post on the website’s blog, the goal of the Initiative is “to broaden the parameters of the public policy debate of current topics in [...]
We are beginning to see the fallout of yesterday’s health care compromise by the Senate Democrats. Some progressive Democrats are against the compromise, which would eliminate a public option but lower the age of eligibility for Medicare, while others are in support. Republicans are not fans. But the compromise [...]
Al Kaman of the Washington Post picked out some [...]
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the Bush administration should have abandoned the idea of firing U.S. Attorneys in 2008 because they could not count on Republicans to stop an investigation. His comments appear in Esquire’s Meaning of Life issue.
Al Kaman of the Washington Post picked [...]
He's young (36, I believe), in a statewide position, good at his job and well-liked.
From NMPolitics.net:Asked about the comments from Burgos, House [...]
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 [...]
Former U.S. Representative Steve Pearce was in Alamogordo Saturday, campaigning at a Young Republicans meeting. Pearce is running for Congress in the 2nd Congressional District against incumbent Democrat Harry Teague.
While talking about health care reform, Pearce made some comments that might not have been completely true, according to Factcheck.org.“Let’s take care [...]
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Doug Turner blasted the REAL ID Act which could force New Mexicans to use a passport for domestic travel after the new year if the state is not granted an extension. This is because New Mexico drivers licenses would not reach the standards of the REAL [...]
A Republican state senator charged Friday that the Department of Health had hired more than 90 state employees since Gov. Bill Richardson imposed a state hiring freeze – and she wants to know why. Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort, R-Sandia Park, charged during a meeting of the Legislative Finance [...]
A day after the governor's office announced the layoff of 59 political appointees, a Republican senator is asking questions about "emergency hires" at the New Mexico Health Department.Here’s an interesting tidbit brought to our attention by our Washington bureau. Adam Kokesh, who is running for Congress as a Republican in the deeply Democratic 3rd Congressional district that includes Santa Fe and Taos, has posted on his Facebook page a picture of him in a grinning [...]
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 [...]
Earlier today, I wrote that Democrats are complaining about Republicans using all sorts of delaying tactics to avoid votes on a health care reform bill. Well, it looks like the Republican Party is divided on how aggressively to obstruct.
One Republican, New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, has [...]
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' [...] Over at the blog for the Southwest Organizing Project, they say Chavez's legacy is, [...]
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' [...]
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez has been trotting out a lot of endorsements from state legislators recently, but in the last few days, one of her opponents has unveiled a couple of significant endorsements of his own.
Doug Turner has announced the support of two former cabinet secretaries who [...]
Sheriff Gonzales and wife ElaineThe question for both Chavez and Albuquerque is... what's next?
Chavez has had as big an impact on any mayor in Albuquerque in the modern era, possibly [...]
