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.
Normally, a movie star being in talks for a role isn’t that big a deal for New Mexico politics. But actor Val Kilmer floated the possibility of a gubernatorial run earlier this year, though he has since disappeared from the state’s political limelight.
So news that Kilmer is in talks to act in the upcoming movie MacGruber make a run for governor even less likely, as he would most likely be filming during a time when he otherwise would need to be campaigning.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Kilmer is conceived as “a nuclear-armed villain” who MacGruber (played by Will Forte) would have to stop.
Kilmer had been floating the idea that he’d run as a Democrat. Meanwhile, Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish has already announced that she is running, and fellow Democrat and New Mexico Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez has formed a gubernatorial exploratory committee.
MacGruber was a skit from Saturday Night Live based on (not surprisingly) MacGuyver. Instead of saving the day, however, MacGruber skits always ended in him dying in an explosion.
Though the role couldn’t be worse for his political career than Arnold Schwarzenegger being Mr. Freeze in Batman and Robin.
Below are some MacGruber skits co-starring Seth Rogan.
