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.
Javier Gonzales kept his position as head of state Democrats after a close vote Saturday. The Democratic Party of New Mexico’s State Central Committee voted for Gonzales by just 11 votes over attorney Sam Bregman.
The state Democratic Party is pushing back against likely senatorial candidate and current Lt. Gov. John Sanchez. In a fundraising appeal to supporters Monday, the state party compared Sanchez to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and painted him as too extreme for the state.
The state Democratic Party is attempting to capitalize on Steve Pearce’s recent comments indicating he was not convinced that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. An e-mail to supporters from Executive Director Scott Forrester announced that…
The last time a Republican won a New Mexico Secretary of State election Herbert Hoover was the U.S. president and the Great Depression had begun a year earlier. But some political observers are wondering if 2010 might be the year of the GOP. First-term Democratic Secretary of State Mary Herrera is viewed as vulnerable after several employees have gone to the FBI to allege corruption in her administration.
With recounting of the ballots out of the way, here are the final numbers from the Democratic Party’s preprimary convention held Saturday:
Lieutenant governor
• Brian Colón: 34.54 percent
• Lawrence Rael: 22.15 percent
• Joe Campos: 19.69 percent
•…
The Democratic Party of New Mexico is accusing Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez, Doña Ana County’s district attorney, of “hiding” public records. The party has been allowed to inspect the records, but it was not allowed to scan any records and has not yet received requested copies. The director of the Foundation for Open Government says it sounds like the Democrats have “run into problems with attitude more than legal compliance” from the DA’s office.
The Democratic Party of New Mexico is starting to get impatient with three Republican gubernatorial candidates who say they will or may voluntarily release campaign finance information before the next report is due in April– but haven’t yet done it.…
That’s how the Democratic Party Of New Mexico has responded to GOP congressional hopeful Adam Kokesh’s comments about U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan and his father Ben Lujan, the speaker of the New Mexico state House.
On Wednesday, The New…
The Democratic Party of New Mexico is celebrating its fundraising prowess with a blog post on its State of the Party Blog saying that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish raised more than the entire field of Republican candidates combined…
“Albuquerque voters today voted overwhelmingly for a Democrat to represent them as their mayor,” Democratic Party of New Mexico chairman Javier Gonzales said in a statement released Tuesday night.
Political parties are working their get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts in the non-partisan Albuquerque municipal elections. As NMI has observed, the race between incumbent mayor Martin Chavez and former state Senate Pro Tem Richard Romero is looking increasingly like a Democratic…
Javier Gonzales, a member of the New Mexico State University Board of Regents, was elected chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico today.
The selection of Gonzales was expected. He ran unopposed and was elected by acclamation…
There was no news release, no public announcement, and little fanfare, but Brian Colón resigned from his position as chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico this weekend as expected, apparently with the intention of entering the…
The Democratic Party of New Mexico, on their “State of the Party” blog is warning of “increasingly hostile and confrontational acts of some members of our society” when it comes to actions at health care town halls across the…
The chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico traveled to Las Cruces on May 14, 2008 to pick up documents left behind when the Region VII Housing Authority shut down in August 2006. But Brian Colón wasn’t acting in his role as party chair.
The Democratic Party is on the online offensive, pushing their Twitter account through Facebook as well as launching a new blog. With the second blog post, the party addresses the rumors about outgoing chairman Brian Colón – the…
News is all over the Internet this morning — and has been confirmed by my sources — that Brian Colón will resign his position as chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico later this week and announce…
Brian Colón, chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico, is seriously considering running for lieutenant governor next year and plans to make a decision in “less than two weeks,” according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
Earlier today, Democratic Party of New Mexico Chairman Brian S. Colón also responded to Steve Pearce’s announcement that he’s running for his old congressional seat.
With the recent additions of Iowa and Vermont (not to mention Washington D.C.) to the ranks of states that allow same-sex marriage, some New Mexico Democrats hope the Land of Enchantment joins that short list soon.
