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.
Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire reacted to the news that former southern New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce is going to run for his old spot with the headline “Pearce switches races.” But did the former three-term GOP member of Congress really switch races?
Pearce had been reportedly mulling over a gubernatorial run, but he had never made any commitment one way or another. As recently as June 26, Pearce told CQ Politics that he was still thinking things over and would “withhold his announcement until sometime between July 20 and July 27.”
Obviously, that timetable jumped forward, perhaps because of Teague’s vote for the climate bill which Pearce cited as a reason for taking on Pearce in this morning’s announcement of the news.
So while Pearce had been considering a run for governor after running unsuccessfully for Senate against Democrat Tom Udall, it would be a bit of a stretch to say that “Pearce had been preparing to run for governor” as Goddard did.
