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.
Remember that ad NEA-New Mexico featuring Freda Trujillo saying “teachers stand with Diane Denish because she’s on our side”? And how the Martinez campaign responded with another ad pointing out that Trujillo’s husband had been prosecuted by Martinez and is currently in jail? Well it gets worse.
The Weekly Standard reported this week that Trujillo had written in defense of her husband and pleaded with the judge to only give her husband probation. The Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper wrote: “Prison records, I’m told, show that Trujillo still frequently visits Carmona as his ‘wife,’ enjoying conjugal visits as recently as September 6, 2010.”
Halper does not provide any citation for this beyond Halper writing, “I’m told.”
Meanwhile, Steve Pearce ran an ad pointing out that the company of his opponent Harry Teague ceased providing health insurance for employees. And Teague responded to the ad with five testimonials from employees saying how he was a good boss.
But the Wall Street Journal found that three of those people who gave testimonials are facing a sexual harassment lawsuit. In fact, Teague’s company was co-defendants in the case that settled out of court in 2008.
Pearce has also begun airing an ad from a former employee who said that Teague “manages by fear and intimidation.” This is a charge that the Teague campaign has vehemently denied as a cheap shot. The campaign also points out that the employee left the company well before the insurance decision happened and on good terms.
In July, Martinez herself stepped into her own small controversy for people featured in one of her ads. A pro-death penalty ad by Martinez featured police officers included Bob Martinez, the former executive director of the State Adult Parole Board. The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell wrote at the time of the ad that Democrats knocked Martinez’s inclusion because he “was fired in 2004 as by current Gov. Bill Richardson for failing to notify victims of a parole hearing for sex-offender priest.”
