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.
Republican 3rd Congressional District challenger Adam Kokesh, R-N.M., raised more than $80,000 in the fundraising quarter that ended on September 30 — more than the $70,000 that incumbent Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., raised in the same time period, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports. However, Luján still has a pretty sizable money lead.
Luján entered the third quarter with $191,322 cash in hand while Kokesh entered the third quarter with no money in the bank or raised according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Kokesh will also face an uphill battle in a district that has only once been represented by a Republican — Bill Redmond, who won the seat in a special election to replace now-Governor Bill Richardson, D-N.M, in May 1997. Richardson was tapped by President Bill Clinton to become the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. In 1998, Tom Udall, D-N.M., now a senator, won the seat back from Redmond.
Last year, Luján won the 3rd Congressional District seat with 57 percent of the vote, even though there was a relatively strong independent party candidate challenging Luján from the left, in Carol Miller. Republican Dan East got 30 percent of the vote after spending $190,884.
Kokesh is getting support from the Ron Paul wing of the Republican Party, as NMI’s Heath Haussamen has pointed out several times.
Neither Luján nor Kokesh have primary competitors.
