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.
New Mexico’s attorney general Gary King, a democrat previously linked to pay-to-play scandals, told reporters yesterday that it was entirely legal to accept a $15,000 political contribution from the New York City law firm of Bernstein Litowitz Berger and Grossman LLP last month — despite the nine-month-old campaign contribution limits law he championed less than a year ago.
Today’s shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has elicited reaction from the Human Rights Campaign and the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, on which she serves, as well as at least one Tea Party group, which was quick to condemn the attack.
In addition to Susana Martinez, two other new statewide officials were sworn in on Saturday. Ray Powell officially became State Land Commissioner for a second time, and Dianna Duran became the state’s first Republican Secretary of State since 1930.
Governor-elect Susana Martinez indicated that she may not keep key campaign promises to not cut education or Medicaid to balance the state’s budget. Martinez’s transition team told NMPolitics.net that cuts in the two areas are “certainly a possibility.”
Governor-elect Susana Martinez named Republican businessman and former Republican congressional candidate Jon Barela her nominee for economic development secretary Friday afternoon. Barela was the president of the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce and a former member of the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education as well as serving as vice chairof the Republican Party of New Mexico.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish outspent Gov.-elect Susana Martinez in the bitter gubernatorial race. Denish spent over $7 million on her bid to become governor while Martinez spent $6.7 million.
Gov.-elect Susana Martinez was elected as an at-large member for the Republican Governor’s Association leadership team at its annual meeting in San Diego Thursday, reflecting her status as a rising star in the party just weeks after her election. Martinez was the first Hispanic woman to be elected as a governor, and the first woman governor of New Mexico.
How chaotic is the leadership battle in the state House of Representatives at the moment? Have you got a hour or so to run through all the scenarios?
Here goes:
For the past year on the campaign trail Governor-elect Susana Martinez has hammered away at the corruption and serial scandals that have plagued New Mexico since 2005. Her response always to voters was that she’d treat corruption as what it was – a crime. And then she’d talk of creating a special State Police unit charged with investigating public corruption. Now, with two months before her first legislative session, Martinez must convince state lawmakers of the worthiness of her idea.
Are the Richardson and Martinez administrations already shooting death rays at each other, and so soon after all the smiles Tuesday?
Heather Wilson, Governor-elect Susana Martinez‘s transition guru, released a letter yesterday in which she called out
Young voters who participated in the 2008 midterms were still more Democratic and racially diverse than the general population, according to an analysis of exit polls from Tuft University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning Engagement (CIRCLE)…
Outgoing Gov. Bill Richardson met with Governor-elect Susana Martinez yesterday at the State Capitol, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
The relaxed, friendly mood described by the paper offers a striking contrast to the white-hot rhetoric that defined this year’s…
The race between incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich and Republican Jon Barela was one of the highest rates of independent spending of any U.S. House race in the nation, ranking 12th. Of the slightly more than $3.8 million in independent expenditures…
Republican Gov.-elect Susana Martinez spoke with the Las Cruces Sun-News in one of the first in-depth interviews the Dona Ana County prosecutor has given since winning the election Tuesday of last week.
Closing the state’s budget gap is her…
The midterm elections brought an unprecedented number of climate skeptics into Congress, with no incoming Republicans acknowledging the existence of man-made climate change. Environmentalists have all but given up on passing significant climate legislation in the near future, but in the long term, it may be difficult for climate skeptics to hold their ranks: Young Americans are significantly more concerned about global warming than older generations, and there are no major organizations of young climate skeptics.
Rep. Ben Ray Luján has signed onto a letter backing Steny Hoyer, D-Md., in his race against Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., for House Minority Whip in the next Congress. Hoyer, the current House Majority Whip, also got the backing of some…
This week Gov. Bill Richardson spoke to The Independent’s election-night panel on KNME about the campaign between Susana Martinez and Diane Denish, and about his record.
According to New York Times polling expert Nate Silver, Rasmussen Reports is the big loser in this year’s midterm election. For two years, Rasmussen Reports’ polling results were consistently more favorable to Republicans than Democrats, Silver writes. And while…
Susana Martinez announced Thursday that former Representative Heather Wilson will lead her transition team.
This is the first of what will be many announcements about the new administration.
Interested in working for the administration? You can submit your information here…
Just over half of registered voters took part in the elections according to unofficial numbers from the Secretary of State’s office. Out of 1,152,917 registered voters in New Mexico, 598,768 voters cast ballots in this election.
That’s about the same turnout…
