Things just keep getting worse for PRC candidate Jerome Block Jr. So far, he’s been accused of drunk driving, peeing in the bushes at Summerfest, riding with a drunk driver and lying about having a college degree. Today, the Santa Fe Reporter unearths a decade-old restraining order against the candidate, and connects it to gang activity in Santa Fe.

According to the application for the restraining order, Block and a friend confronted, detained and threatened Jacques Paisner at UNM, after a gang fight in Santa Fe. The incident occurred while Block was studying at UNM. Block denied any gang activity in an e-mail to the paper. But will it matter? Not one bit, said alleged victim Paisner in an interview with the Reporter:
 

“I know he is going to win [the election] anyway…His dad was in the same position, his grandpa was in the same position and nobody even knows what a whatever commissioner is. So he’s definitely going to win, no matter what you do.”

Albuquerque can’t make the mentally ill take their meds says the state Court of Appeals. The AP reports that the court yesterday upheld a lower court’s ban on enforcing the law, which had been promoted by Mayor Martin Chavez after a schizophrenic man shot five people, including two police officers, in 2005. The court said that the city law would have conflicted with two state laws, including one that requires consent before administering psychotropic drugs.

llinois Congressman and former chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Rahm Emanuel will be in New Mexico on Thursday to help raise money for Ben Ray Lujan, Martin Heinrich and Harry Teague, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. And as a bonus, here’s a bit of trivia for you: According to Rolling Stone, Rahm Emanuel was the inspiration for the character Josh Lyman on The West Wing; his brother, talent agent Ari Emanuel also has a TV counterpart in Ari Gold on HBO’s Entourage.

And just for laughs you’ve got to see Paris Hilton’s new video (watch it here). Even if you hate Hilton, you’ll get a kick out of her reaction to John McCain’s ad, which included a glimpse of her in an attempt to paint Obama as a celebrity ditz. In her spoof, Hilton actually utters the following lines: "We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars. … Energy crisis solved. I’ll see you at the debates, bitches!"