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.
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…
With another $250,000 donation to his campaign in the last month, GOP candidate for governor Allen Weh has reached $1 million in self-loans. He has raised a total of $1,641,098.40 so far, meaning that Weh has loaned his campaign more…
Weh campaign spokesman Chris Sanchez simply told The Independent: “The Tarrance Group does not do push polls.”
The Tarrance Group is the polling company that Weh has hired for his campaign; it has previously been accused of push polling.
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A key claim in the latest ad by Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh isn’t true, according to documents obtained NMPolitics.net. Weh asserted that Denish “spent stimulus money to fly a jet to a parade,” but reporter Heath Haussamen…
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…
Though the Republican primary is just over a month away, former Republican Party chairman Allen Weh aired a TV ad attacking Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, a Democrat, for her use of the state’s jet.
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.
Former state Republican Party chairman Allen Weh announced that he has raised nearly $1.3 million since entering the gubernatorial race in September.
The Associated Press reported on his numbers during the fundraising period from October to April 5:
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh’s second TV commercial says his campapign is “all about jobs.” Recent unemployment numbers show that 8.7 percent of New Mexico’s workforce is unemployed.
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 Allen Weh announced his first TV ad today. The 30 second ad will focus on his service as a Marine in Vietnam.
Days after she failed to secure the votes of 20 percent of delegates at the GOP’s preprimary nominating convention, Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones is trying to show that she has momentum by announcing the endorsements of two…
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.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones easily won a straw poll taken at Tuesday’s monthly meeting of the Quay County Republican Party.
As promised, Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Domenici Jr. released detailed information Monday about campaign contributions he’s received to-date, and his fundraising thus far has topped $260,000. That includes a $50,000 contribution Domenici gave himself. Contributions he raised from others added…
After the “youthful indiscretions” of Clinton, Bush and Obama, the question of who inhaled and who didn’t is mostly a yawner. Some Tea Partiers who attended an Albuquerque gubernatorial candidates forum said they’re concerned about admissions from three GOP candidates who’ve admitted doing drugs in the past, while others said the past should remain just that.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Domenici Jr. expects to report having raised more than $200,000 when his campaign releases its first list of financial contributors on Monday.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez easily won a straw poll taken following a candidate forum Thursday evening in Clovis.
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, a Democrat, is ahead of five potential Republican challengers, according to the first public polling of the New Mexico gubernatorial race. Her nearest challenger is Pete Domenici Jr.; she has the support of 45 percent of those polled to his 40 percent. Denish is also best known of all the candidates, with 75 percent name recognition.
