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.
Former Republican congressional candidate Greg Sowards announced Thursday that he intends to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman. Sowards finished fourth out of five candidates in the Republican primary for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District in 2008, losing out to Ed Tinsley.
Bingaman, New Mexico’s senior Senator now serving his fifth term in office, has said that he will decide whether to run for another Senate term within the next few months.
Sowards is positioning himself as a tea party candidate. In his candidacy statement, he says, “The most pressing fight of our time involves the question; what will be the national atmosphere that our children’s children will live under? Will they have the liberty to experience and learn from those endearing lessons that freedom affords? Or, will they be deprived of that opportunity through governmental intervention and the squandering of their resources by short-sighted, self-serving politicians?”
Sowards gained the most notoriety in his congressional run for his website’s url: www.shortbaldhonest.com.
Bingaman received more than 70 percent of the vote in his latest re-election test in 2006, and in 2000 he received more than 60 percent of the vote.
In the Republican primary, Sowards would face William English, another tea party-aligned candidate with a history of making inflammatory statements on his blog.
