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.
New Mexico Lt. Gov. Diane Denish may have been publicly mum on attempts by the Republican Party and some of its declared gubernatorial nominees to associate her negatively with the Richardson administration, but her recent fundraising appeal let loose on them.
In the letter, Denish writes that the Republican Party has stooped to an “all-time low in New Mexico politics” by going negative well over a year away from the election.
Pointing to the four declared Republican candidates vying for their party’s nomination so far, she warns that there will be increasing negativity:
And we all know what that means. More character attacks. More attempts to distort my record. More of the kind of politics that makes us sick.
When the time is right, we’ll fight back, make no mistake about it. But I’ll need your help.
If you need an indication of how negative our opponents will get, listen to this. The election isn’t for 15 months, and the Republicans have already launched a negative TV ad against me. That might be an all-time low in New Mexico politics.
Denish is most likely responding to such things as the moniker rolled out repeatedly lately by Republicans for the Richardson administration. They’re giving Denish a lot of credit for his alleged misdeeds, citing the “Richardson/Denish” administration when they slam him.
