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.
Not all Republicans are happy with the win by Susana Martinez in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Bill Turner, hydrologist and former director of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (and father of GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner), said a Martinez…
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…
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…
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…
On Fox News today, Republican pollster Frank Luntz gave his thumbs-up for a campaign ad by public relations firm owner Doug Turner, one of many candidates vying for the Republican nomination for New Mexico governor.
Luntz said of the ad,…
Over the past few weeks I’ve been interviewing folks who are running for governor, segments that are airing on New Mexico in Focus on KNME.
Today I sat down with Doug Turner, an Albuquerque Republican who worked on the campaigns…
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…
New Mexico’s Tea Parties are planning to present Attorney General Gary King with a petition to join other states’ lawsuits against the federal government to reverse health care reform. But the tide seems to be turning against support for such a move, if letters to the AG website are any indication. After an initial flood of often vitriolic comments demanding New Mexico sue the federal government to halt health reform, mid-April brought a majority of letters opposed to such a suit, The Independent has found.
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…
If nothing else, Doug Turner is getting a lot of face time. Turner is on the air with his fourth TV ad.
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.
While scientists agree that the potential impacts of climate change will be widespread—and in the already arid southwestern United States, severe—Congress has yet to pass climate change legislation. The move for federal cap and trade legislation—which would cap emissions but allow flexibility in compliance— is on its death bed, felled by the poor economy and vehement industry opposition, among other factors. As states grapple with how to move forward, in New Mexico, gubernatorial candidates on both side of the aisle agree that climate change regulation is not a state’s prerogative.
GOP gubernatorial hopeful Doug Turner revealed his third TV ad Wednesday. It was described as “not your standard political ad” by Turner’s campaign manager.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner reported raising over $400,000 in the latest fundraising period. Nearly $200,000 of his fundraising haul was in the form of loans from D.W. Turner, the PR firm which Turner owns, to his campaign.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner on Monday filed a temporary restraining order against Governor Bill Richardson, saying he hoped that move would halt the state’s plans to administratively cut greenhouse gas emissions from facilities such as coal- and natural…
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 Doug Turner said Saturday that he will sue the federal government if the health care reform proposal being considered in Congress is signed by President Barack Obama. A vote is expected in the Senate Sunday.
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.
