David Alire Garcia
Mayor Martin Chavez makes his case
Alas, all is not well economically speaking. But you have to give credit to Albuquerque’s three-term mayor for doing his best to communicate a fiscally responsible approach and a we’re-in-better-shape-than-most attitude during his speech earlier this week.
Obama dominates traditional pueblo
A different kind of change swept though this stronghold of Keresan culture and traditions as a steady stream of voters cast their ballots on Tuesday.
Opinion of one
The Albuquerque Journal’s John McCain endorsement was the dictate of one man — publisher T.H. Lang — and it calls to mind the brute constitutional insight attributed to the late New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling: “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
Obama team works the Native vote in N.M.
Amber Carrillo, the Native American vote director for the New Mexico Campaign for Change, has been quite the busy woman over the past few months. And it’s all coming to a head right now.
From shepherding a near-clean-sweep of endorsements from the state’s 22 tribes to coordinating voter canvasses and registration drives, Carrillo has been working [...]
Tom Udall wants to ‘get into the earth of New Mexico’
I posted the interview I conducted with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Pearce last week. This week, I’m passing along my interview with his Democratic opponent, Tom Udall, an excerpt of which was broadcast on Friday night’s “New Mexico In Focus” on KNME. The unedited version is posted below.
Check it out if you’d like to [...]
I bet Martin Heinrich doesn’t have an FDR tattoo…
File this one in the hero worship folder. Thanks to the intrepid reporting of Politico, we now know that 1st Congressional District GOP nominee Darren White really, really likes Ronald Reagan, the late Republican icon and former president.
Need proof? There it is on White’s ankle.
‘Obama Wins!’ faux-scoop by Santa Fe paper has its roots in a recent change of editors
You gotta hand it to Jerry Greenker, the new Sun News editor who has given the sleepy Santa Fe bi-monthly newspaper a high-wattage jolt of international attention. From CNN to many other national and international news outlets, the Sun’s “Obama Wins!” headline in the current issue – published a week before any official results can be known — has been [...]
GOP files complaint against Dem group
The Republican Party of New Mexico is filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over a recent mailing sent out by Democrats in a Corrales-based state House district that improperly advocated the election of Barack Obama. The mailing also advocated the election of the Democratic candidate in state House District 23, Ben Rodefer, who’s challenging Republican incumbent Rep. Eric Youngberg.
On the cusp of history?
Once again, New Mexico is one of maybe a dozen battleground states lavished with personal attention by the presidential candidates in the campaign’s final days. No more proof is needed than Saturday’s same-day dueling Albuquerque visits by John McCain in the morning, Barack Obama at night.
DA Debate: Torraco prosecutes Brandenburg record, incumbent mounts strenuous defense
Tonight on KNME’s New Mexico In Focus, Bernalllo County’s smoking hot district attorney’s race takes center stage.
I say smoking hot because there really is a sharp contrast between the two candidates — two-term incumbent Democrat Kari Brandenburg and Republican challenger Lisa Torraco. And like the smart lawyers they are, neither shies away from mixing it up. [...]