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.
Not all Republicans are happy with the win by Susana Martinez in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Bill Turner, hydrologist and former director of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (and father of GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner), said a Martinez win of the seat would usher in “rule by the Thug Club,” and said that the system was “…rigged by the Republican GROUP.”
Turner gave his opinion in response to The Independent Forum question of the week about who were the Primary 2010 winners and losers:
The losers are New Mexicans who we now expect will be ruled by the Thug Club if Martinez wins. Losers are reasonable conservative Republicans rather than being ruled by patronistic redneck Repubs and Dems. Loser is the two party system. Losers are Republicans who thought they were voting in an open election rather than a system rigged by the Republican GROUP. … Also you gotta read the expose on the inside workings of the Republican Party and their puppetmasters known as the GROUP. I can’t name names. You just have to read it. They are New Mexico’s Tamany Hall and they are real. Most Republicans it would appear were DUPED BY THE GROUP. …
It’s possible that Turner’s opinion is influenced somewhat by the fact that his son didn’t win the primary. At the same time, his missive shows an explicit analysis about the distinctions between the candidates, as well as the party leadership who he refers to as “New Mexico’s Tamany Hall.” This last point is bolstered by the fact that the head of the state Republican Party weighed in toward the end of the campaign with denouncements of campaign ads of one of the losing candidates.
