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.
The state Democratic Party is pushing back against likely senatorial candidate and current Lt. Gov. John Sanchez. In a fundraising appeal to supporters Monday, the state party compared Sanchez to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and painted him as too extreme for the state.
“New Mexico does not need a Tea Party Senator like Rand Paul who wants to cut 25 percent of the budget across the board,” an e-mail from Democratic Party of New Mexico chair Javier Gonzalez said. “Cuts like that would devastate New Mexico families and our economy.”
The party cited quotes made by Sanchez in recent media appearances while discussing a possible Senate bid as reasons why Sanchez would be too far to the right for the state.
“Do they want a return back to the days of moderate-type leaders [whose] conservative compasses [weren’t] pointed in the right direction? Or are they looking for somebody who doesn’t have to reinvent himself?” Sanchez told The Hill last week when he was in Washington, D.C., for a meeting of lieutenant governors from around the nation.
At a tea party event in Moriarty this week Sanchez seemed to be inching towards announcing himself as a candidate for Senate. Heather Wilson, who has already announced her candidacy, was also at the Moriarty event.
Sanchez won the Republican primary for lieutenant governor and was on the winning ballot with Susana Martinez in this November’s elections.
So far no Democrats have announced their intention to run but a number of prominent Democrats are considering a run.
