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.
Steve Pearce’s first ad is all about jobs. And the ad takes a direct shot at his opponent, Democratic incumbent Harry Teague.
“People ask, what’s the difference between you and Harry Teague,” Pearce says in the ad while speaking to factory workers. “My answer is simple. I’ll create new jobs, he wont.”
The ad mentions the stimulus package, which Pearce says “did not help our economy.”
The ad, which began airing on Friday, drew a response from the Democratic Party of New Mexico over the weekend.
“New Mexicans know that Congressman Pearce has zero credibility when it comes to job creation. It was the Bush policies that he supported that got us into this economic mess in the first place,” DPNM Spokesman James Hallinan said in a statement. “In his last year in Congress, Congressman Pearce and his policies lost us more than 5 million jobs.”
DPNM cited stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed between the first quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009, 5,881,000 jobs were lost. This was the most precipitous decline in jobs throughout Pearce’s career in Congress; overall there were about 3,283,000 jobs created from January 2003 when Pearce entered office to January 2009 when he left office.
The amount of jobs in the last decade peaked in December of 2007 and was at its lowest point in December of 2009 according to BLS numbers.
The ad is the first from the Pearce campaign in this cycle.
