Comments on: Albuquerque: You Have a New Mayor

By: tripjennings

tripjennings — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:14:53 +0000

Thanks Babyfatt for your vote of confidence. Always good to read your comments.

By: tripjennings

tripjennings — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:14:53 +0000

Thanks Babyfatt for your vote of confidence. Always good to read your comments.

By: tripjennings

tripjennings — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:14:53 +0000

Thanks Babyfatt for your vote of confidence. Always good to read your comments.

By: incognito33

incognito33 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:36:21 +0000

I think that's a very good news for the Albuquerque !! Finally, a new change came. It looks like Martin Chavez wanted to rule this city forever, to the point that he even changed the local law for his own political career, it didn't look good and many people didn't like that. This city needs more business-oriented people, not only political-career oriented speakers. I'm sure it will only help the city and hopefully bring more business to the area.

By: babyfatt

babyfatt — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:54:43 +0000

Trip has it wrong once again: the big story is the victory of public financing for campaigns. This campaign showed that with public financing even an entrenched local political machine like the Chavez coalition of developers and cronies can be driven from office. Although I'm far from a Party of No (i.e., 'Republican') kind of person, one can only hope that Berry allows not a single one of Chavez' political hangers-on to remain at city hall. Berry's going to need an awfully big shovel to muck out city hall after lo these many years of Chavez arrogance-corruption.

By: benito_a

benito_a — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:19:36 +0000

Wrong... thousands of people that voted for Marty in the last election voted for Berry this time around. If Marty's record would not have been so questionable, and if he had not burned so many bridges and regularly smirked while flipping the bird to the tax-payers and city contractors, he would have been able to force a runoff.

You can spin it anyway you want, the truth is that the way Marty conducted himself for years is the sole reason he couldn't even force a runoff.

As if we don't have enough of a watered down, corporate, willing to settle philosophy at the top of the Democratic party, you have people trying to inject that attitude at a local level.

By: benito_a

benito_a — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:06:40 +0000

PhoenixWoman, not enough issues going on in Minnesota to keep you guys busy?

"even though Romero knew that he, Romero, had no chance of defeating Berry and that this would mean a conservative Republican minority would take over the most lefty city in the country:"

What exactly are you talking about? At the commencement of this race most people were speculating that Berry had no chance... insiders were pretty blown away a week before the election that showed Berry polling at 31% with Chavez and Romero pretty much tied. Not one person suspected at the beginning of the race that Berry nor was anyone labeling Romero a "spoiler" from the outset. A huge segment of former Chavez supporters voted for Berry... blame Chavez and his record for the outcome.

And you labeling Albuquerque as, "the most lefty city in the country" kind of screams that you don't live here and you know little about the ABQ political environment.

Since you're quoting a personal endorsement on a blog as if it were an objective factual source, why don't you scroll down to the comments section for an excellent rebuttal as to why Romero held a press conference with Berry:

They were protesting Chavez’s blatant skirting of the new public financing law when he ran two months of taxpayer funded “PSAs” featuring Marty himself as, you guessed it, "Mayor Tough on Crime." It should be noted that the fact that progressive Romero was an early and active proponent of the Clean and Ethical Elections law, one can understand that he felt particularly aggrieved, not merely as a candidate, but as an advocate passionately committed to the issue of clean campaigns public financing reform.

Your interest in the ABQ race notable, but your research lacking.

By: Leonidas56

Leonidas56 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:34:21 +0000

Never mind them Thomas. They're just wetting their pants over the November 2010 elections.

We'll have the last laugh on them and you know about he who laughs last.

By: Leonidas56

Leonidas56 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:31:39 +0000

WHAAA! WHAAA!!

Big baby want a bottle?

By: Leonidas56

Leonidas56 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:31:08 +0000

Nice spin! How do you explain the Reps capturing the City Council?

Doesn't quite fit in to well with your narration.

2010 will be such a blast!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I'm laughing in your face.