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.
Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White said he has “no idea” as to why his congressional campaign Web site redirects to Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman’s senatorial campaign site, according to a direct message on Twitter.
Coleman is involved in…
Maybe Darren White wasn’t much of a fan of Stuart Smalley. But White is clearly a supporter of Minnesota Republican and probable ex-U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman.
On Wednesday, the Roman Coliseum, one of the most recognizable buildings in the world, will be lit in honor of New Mexico repealing the death penalty.
Gov. Bill Richardson and Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan are part of a New…
Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White, who is term-limited out of his current position, is working to repeal the state’s death penalty repeal — even before the death penalty repeal goes into effect.
Supporters of the now-abolished death penalty in New Mexico have hit the airwaves hoping to bring the ultimate punishment back to state law, reports KOB-TV.
Organizers of the effort to repeal the repeal, mostly law enforcement types, have created a…
Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White has formed a political action committee aimed at repealing the death-penalty repeal recently signed into law by Gov. Bill Richardson, and the PAC’s first TV ad is running statewide beginning Monday.
It is less than 24 hours after Gov. Bill Richardson announced he would sign the death penalty abolition bill. The death penalty has been replaced with life without the possibility of parole.
But already those who support capital punishment…
When the results in New Mexico came flowing in and showed the Democrats had swept all three U.S. House seats last Tuesday, it came as a shock. Not a shock that it had been done — the possibility had become…
While much of the attention was on the presidential election during the past few months, all political eyes are now on Minnesota, Alaska and Georgia’s U.S. Senate races. Alaska and Minnesota are still counting ballots, while Georgia is readying itself for a special election next month. Here in New Mexico, there was not as much drama in the race for Senate or even, ultimately, any of the open House seats.
What do you say to your supporters after you’ve just suffered a rather sizable defeat at the hands of Barack Obama and the Democratic tidal wave?
Darren White, the 1st Congressional District Republican candidate who lost by…
During his victory speech Tuesday night, President-elect Barack Obama promised his daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, that their reward for putting up with the campaign would be a new puppy.
Presidential pets — especially dogs — have a…
Despite the tears and occasional jeers at the New Mexico Republican Party’s election-watch event Tuesday, rays of hope began to emerge. Are any of them ready to heed the call to turn around and get right back into another election? (And, yes, another election is our reward for getting through this one.)
The first rule of any veteran election-night party-goer is this: Don’t show up on time. At 7 p.m., the bar may be open and the buffet full-up, but the real fun won’t start until results start pouring in. For Republicans on Tuesday, the sentiment seemed to be don’t show up at all.
Democrats swung at the pitch offered up when longtime Republican Sen. Pete Domenici stepped aside and hit a grand slam Tuesday night, winning all four open congressional seats his retirement created.
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.”
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…
Democrat Martin Heinrich continues to hold onto a slim lead in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District, yet another poll is showing. Blogger Joe Monahan says in today’s “New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan” that an automated poll conducted for…
The latest volley in the battle between Republican Darren White and former Albuquerque City Councilor Martin Heinrich for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District is a doozy, with White’s newest TV ad calling his opponent “disgraceful, dishonorable, extreme” based on Heinrich’s environmental work and associations. Heinrich’s campaign fired back that the ad is “more brazen lies” from White.
Ask Republican candidates for office what they think their chances are on Tuesday, and even many of those who have no shot at winning — if you believe the polls — express optimism. Ask GOP operatives what they expect on Election Day, and promise them anonymity in exchange for their answers, and you get a much different answer.
In Time magazine’s “Races to Watch ’08″ section of its Web site, and presumably in its upcoming print issue, the CD1 race between Democrat Martin Heinrich and Republican Darren White is mentioned prominently. Under the headline: “A New Mexico…
