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…
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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.
An ad by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish “distorts Republican Susana Martinez’s 10-year record as district attorney” according to FactCheck.org.
Denish used the wrong numbers to back up her claim that Martinez’s office’s homicide conviction rate was “the worst in New Mexico” and that she gave plea deals to “felony drunk drivers” over 800 times in her time as District Attorney.
Instead, Martinez has a 95.8 percent conviction rate on homicides (45 of 47) according to the New Mexico Administrative Office of the District Attorneys and plea bargained 46 felony DWI cases down to misdemeanors according to files provided by Martinez’s office (pdf).
Martinez had said in a Las Cruces Sun-News article in 2004, “We will not plea bargain a DWI case.”
Martinez went on to explain, “We don’t pretend it is a first or second offense just to move the court docket along.”
Denish isn’t the first candidate to have her ads scrutinized by FactCheck.org. Martinez and Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh were both found to distort the truth in primary election ads.
