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.
Lt. Gov. John Sanchez told The Hill Thursday that Senate candidate Heather Wilson is a “moderate-type” ahead of a potential Republican primary showdown with the former U.S. Representative. Sanchez also said he will decide on whether or not to join the race “relatively soon.”
John Sanchez
Sanchez told The Hill that he believed that people are “not looking to return to policies of the past, and decisions and leaders that kind of got us into this mess in the first place.” Wilson served in the U.S. House for five terms.
Sanchez also was dismissive of the tea party movement, saying, “I don’t necessarily need to be the Tea Party candidate.” He did say that he agreed with tea party positions like smaller government and less taxes.
Sanchez previously lost in a statewide election when he ran for governor in 2002, when he was bested by Bill Richardson. Sanchez won the Republican primary for lieutenant governor last year and was sent to Santa Fe as Gov. Susana Martinez’s second-in-command.
Sanchez is in Washington, D.C., for the National Lieutenant Governors Association’s winter meetings. He also said he will be in the nation’s capitol again next week, where he will meet with the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Earlier this week, businessman and Senate candidate Greg Sowards promised to be the most conservative candidate in the Republican primary.
Columnist William S. English has also said he will run for the open seat. U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, who won the Republican nomination in 2008 and lost to Tom Udall in the general election, has not yet made a decision on whether he’ll make a second run at the Senate.
On the Democratic side, there are no announced candidates but U.S. Reps. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, State Auditor Hector Balderas and Lt. Gov. Diane Denish have all indicated or are reportedly considering running for the open seat.
