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.
On Monday, former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson announced she will run for U.S. Senate. Wilson quickly picked up endorsements from prominent New Mexico Republicans, including former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, and criticisms from Democrats, who noted her involvement in the scandal of fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.
Former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici Sr. acknowledged that the 2010 GOP gubernatorial race was more divisive than the usual jockeying for the state’s top post. It was “pretty divisive,” Domenici said. “But we’ve never had five candidates before. It’s hard to…
Pete Domenici Jr. confirmed he was the only GOP gubernatorial candidate to show up at the party’s election central at the Marriott Pyramid hotel in Albuquerque.
Several Republican gubernatorial candidates live in Albuquerque but most are having their own parties.…
The first skirmish of the Republican gubernatorial race went to Susana Martinez, as Martinez took a plurality of early and absentee ballots in Bernalillo County, the state’s most populous county. Martinez took 46.71 percent, while Allen Weh took 35.49 percent.…
Bob J. Perry, the Texas developer behind the anti-John Kerry Swift Boat Veterans for Truth 527 group gave $450,000 to the gubernatorial campaign of Susana Martinez and airline service company owner Allen Weh loaned his campaign another $600,000. Those are…
At first glance today’s Rasmussen poll showing Democrat Diane Denish leads GOP guv candidate Susana Martinez looks like good news for Denish—until you remember that Denish led Martinez by 19 points in late March. But since then the five…
Doña Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez leads all other gubernatorial candidates, in both the Republican primary and in the general election according to a poll by SurveyUSA.
Martinez leads former Republican Party chairman Allen Weh by 10…
My 15-minute one-on-one interviews with Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, a Democrat who has no primary opposition, and Susana Martinez, the Doña Ana County district attorney, will air tonight at 7 p.m. on KNME‘s New Mexico in Focus. In…
In April, Doña Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez raised more money than the other four candidates for governor—if you don’t include the money the other candidates lent themselves. There’s the $250,000 former state Republican Party chairman Allen Weh lent…
I’ve been interviewing all the gubernatorial candidates for KNME-TV’s public affairs show, New Mexico in Focus. The first two of the series, 15-minute segments with state Rep. Janice Arnold Jones and Pete Domenici Jr., aired on Friday. Here they are…
After Arizona’s Republican Governor, Jan Brewer, signed the nation’s strictest anti-immigration law, New Mexico GOP gubernatorial hopefuls mostly expressed support for the decision, but stopped short of fully endorsing the law.
The sole Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Diane Denish, already…
Pete Domenici Jr. announced today that he’ll be getting a little help on the campaign trail from his dad, former U.S. Senator Pete Domenici. The elder Domenici served in the United States Senate for more than 35 years. He…
Most of the 100 participants interviewed by The Independent at tea party events in Albuquerque in Santa Fe Thursday said they will probably vote in the Republican primary in June—but they haven’t yet settled on a candidate.
Pete Domenici Jr. raised just over $372,000 in the latest fundraising report according to the latest fundraising report. Domenici Jr. entered the race after the beginning of the fundraising period. Domenici Jr. now has $129,698.45 cash on hand.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Domenici, Jr. announced today that he raised $40,000 since his last voluntary fundraising disclosure. Of that amount, the majority came from Prakash Sundaram, an Albuquerque-area hotelier, who gave $25,000 on March 5. Domenici has now…
A Rasmussen poll shows that Lt. Gov. Diane Denish leads each of her Republican challengers by between 9 and 22 percent. And while views on health care reform are mixed, New Mexicans generally have a negative opinion of the tea parties.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez gained in stature at today’s Republican Party preprimary nominating convention. Allen Weh did what he needed to do. And Pete Domenici Jr. is down but not necessarily out. That’s how Albuquerque pollster Brian Sanderoff analyzed the results following today’s vote.
The Independent will be on hand at the Albuquerque Hilton Saturday at noon to live blog the 2010 Republican Party pre-primary convention, where candidates for office will vie for enough votes to be placed on the primary election ballot.
In particular,…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones easily won a straw poll taken at Tuesday’s monthly meeting of the Quay County Republican Party.
Brian Moore is the first candidate for lieutenant governor to join several gubernatorial candidates in releasing campaign finance information more frequently than state law requires.
