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.
Peace activist and Iraq war veteran Adam Kokesh launched his campaign for Congress this past holiday weekend. Kokesh raised $25,000 online on Independence Day as part of a “money bomb” from the supporters of Texas Congressman Ron Paul — the libertarian-leaning ex-GOP presidential candidate.
The money was raised “despite servers being overwhelmed and crashing.”
Some supporters of Paul, who didn’t win a single Republican presidential primary or caucus last year, have backed Kokesh’s candidacy.
Kokesh told the SFReeper blog that he doesn’t know what party affiliation — if any — he will use in the 2010 elections.
“Party labels are really relatively meaningless these days,” Kokesh said. “I mean neither one represents their base, neither one represents what their party actually stands for, and neither of the major parties come close to representing what the American people really want.”
If Kokesh decides to run as an independent or third-party candidate, he will have an uphill battle; in 2008, independent candidate Carol Miller managed just 12.8 percent of the vote in the general election, to 56.6 percent of the vote for Ben Ray Luján in the heavily Hispanic and Democratic northern New Mexico congressional district. Republican Dan East received 30.7 percent of the vote.
Kokesh grew up in Santa Fe and attended the Native American Preparatory School in San Ysidro, New Mexico. It was at the Native American Prepatory School that Kokesh was recruited into the United States Marine Corps.
Kokesh also announced an upcoming iPhone and BlackBerry app to keep up with news for his campaign.
