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 New Mexico Republican Party chair (and former candidate for governor) Allen Weh announced today that he has founded a political advocacy group called For Country. It is a nonprofit, tax-exempt group organized under section 527 of the Internal…
One thing is sure after Tuesday’s primary election: New Mexico will elect its first woman governor in November. Doña Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez set up an all-female contest with Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish on Tuesday after easily dispatching state GOP chairman Allen Weh in the GOP gubernatorial primary.
The Associated Press has called the Republican gubernatorial primary for Susana Martinez, the Doña Ana County District Attorney. Martinez won a five-way race to face Democratic candidate Diane Denish, who faced only a write-in opponent in the Democratic primary, in…
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.…
Does GOP gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh stand to make more money from a crackdown on immigration? That’s what author Jeffrey Kaye suggests this week on Huffington Post. The federal government contracts with Weh’s company, CSI Aviation, to fly detainees back…
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…
Allen Weh, who is losing ground in the New Mexico Republican primary race for governor with under a week to go, turned away from the negativity the ads in the race had assumed and released a new ad…
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…
Allen Weh‘s recent ad slamming his GOP gubernatorial primary candidate Susana Martinez on Hooters, hotels and iPods is “grossly misleading,” according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan, nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of…
Doña Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez leads former state party chair Allen Weh 41 to 30 percent with less than a week before the primary, shows a poll commissioned by New Mexico Politics With Joe Monahan and…
Conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh is “tough as nails” on illegal immigration, a recorded phone message from Republican political strategist Karl Rove is telling thousands of New Mexico voters.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner issued a statement this week criticizing state Republican Party chairman Harvey Yates, Jr. for getting involved in a dispute between Republican gubernatorial frontrunners Susana Martinez and Allen Weh.
“For Chairman Harvey Yates to take sides…
With one week left in an increasingly negative primary campaign for governor, New Mexico GOP Chairman Harvey E. Yates has defended Susana Martinez against attack ads from her opponent Allen Weh that claimed she didn’t pay…
In the latest development in the back-and-forth ad war over illegal immigration between Republican gubernatorial candidates, Allen Weh has released a spot touting his opposition to so-called amnesty and sanctuary cities. The ad also trumpets his opposition to…
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…
The fight for the GOP gubernatorial nomination has turned negative. And it’s looking like we’re nearing slugfest territory.
Allen Weh‘s campaign has charged rival and fellow Republican Susana Martinez and her campaign of going back on her word to not…
Susana Martinez needs a jolt to push her ahead of Allen Weh in June, and past Democrat Diane Denish in November. And depending who you ask, Sarah Palin’s endorsement might just be the lightning strike Martinez she needed. On the same day a major poll showed Martinez in a virtual tie with Weh, the 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate offered her support to the Doña Ana County D.A.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh’s fourth ad of the primary election focuses on jobs. In it, the former state Republican Party chairman says that “career politicians got us into this mess.”
