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.
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias has responded to GOP gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh’s claims that he took the Republican Party on in Iglesias’ firing by saying Weh’s claims are “a world class display of chutzpah” and that Weh “may not be in touch with reality or may not even be literate.”
In a lengthy statement to Talking Points Memo, Iglesias said:
Weh took credit for my forced resignation, but nonsensically, still claims it was due to poor performance. This position is completely without any basis in fact and has been proven demonstrably false by the Justice Department’s 358 page investigation into the firing of the U.S. Attorneys1, the 71 page Justice Department’s 2006 official evaluation of my office, the House Judiciary Committee’s two and one half year investigative report,2 the Director of the Executive Office of United States Attorneys (EOUSA) letter to me, and the March 29, 2007, sworn testimony of former Chief of Staff to the Attorney General, Kyle Sampson.3 This “performance based” allegation is no longer on the table for debate; the above official findings have completely vindicated me and my prior office. It was illegal politics, not performance that drove the U.S. Attorney scandal. Weh, in a world class display of chutzpah tries to argue the point in his campaign rhetoric.
Weh told the Wall Street Journal that his role in the Iglesias’ firing was an example that he has “been equally critical of leaders in both political parties, those who have either betrayed the public trust or failed to do their job.”
Iglesias pulled no punches in his criticism of Weh, saying, “In another age Weh would have continued to argue the world is flat despite all evidence to the contrary.”
