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.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is going after Congressman Harry Teague for his vote on the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act which narrowly passed the House late last week. The NRCC is airing radio ads and making robocalls to potential voters calling the bill a “National Energy Tax.”
“Nancy Pelosi just passed her number one legislative priority… it’s a radical plan to implement a National Energy Tax across America,” goes the script of the radio ad. “They call it Cap and Trade. But make no mistake… it’s a massive new tax.”
The Media Matters Action Network responded quickly with a fact check of the ads targeting Teague and other Democratic House members.
A Congressional Budget Office analysis of the ACES bill showed the bill would cost American households $175 a year. Congressman Edward Markey said the cost would be similar to “the cost of about a postage stamp a day.”
Media Matters also says the bill will create nearly two million jobs.
You can hear the NRCC radio ad here and the phone call here.
So far, there are no Republican challengers to Teague, a Hobbs Democrat, though former Congressman Steve Pearce, who held the southern New Mexico seat before Teague, says he will make a decision on whether or not to run by late July.
