I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
All three members of New Mexico’s U.S. House delegation will be among the 29 House Democrats who will get help with fundraising from Congressman Jared Polis.
Polis, like Congressmen Martin Heinrich, Harry Teague and Ben Ray Lujan, is a freshman Democrat. He also happens to be the first openly gay man to win a seat in Congress. Polis is in a safe Democratic district, which President Barack Obama won by a 64 percent to 34 percent margin over Sen. John McCain according to Swing State Project.
The three New Mexico Democrats will each receive 2.93 percent of the money donated to the Jared Polis Victory Fund.
CQ Politics reports that, “Last September, one month after Polis narrowly won a three-candidate Democratic primary that was in effect the general election, he transferred $100,000 to the DCCC.” Clearly, Polis is adept at fundraising online, and he is looking (to use a phrase that Joe the Plumber will object to) to spread the wealth to his fellow Democrats.
