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, Karen Giannini sent out a call for help. The representative-elect from District 30 sent an e-mail explaining a tough predicament: Her employer had denied a request for a 60-day leave of absence that would allow her to…
Nobody thought Democrat Karen Giannini was going to win her Northeast Heights Albuquerque race. Nobody. Justine Fox-Young, considered by many a Republican rising star, was sitting pretty in a so-called “safe” Republican seat. But somehow, an Air-Force veteran and divorced mother of three defied the odds and rode a Democratic wave to a new gig in Santa Fe — and without spending a dime. No one was more surprised than the candidate herself. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding?’ All I could think was: ‘Boy, Justine is really going to be upset. If she finds out what I did — or didn’t do — she’s gonna have conniptions.”
After moving courtrooms and switching judges several times Monday, US District Judge William P. Johnson heard arguments in a case brought against GOP attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). Several interesting…
A local private investigator says he was contacted by a man recruiting on behalf of the Republican National Committee, looking for private investigators to advise poll challengers on election day. The investigator, David O’Niell, says he’s worried that RNC may be using private investigators to help with so-called vote caging, a method of vote suppression.
An attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice met with a staff attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today regarding reports of voter intimidation here, said a spokesperson for ACLU.
ACORN, the organization that has become a favorite whipping boy of Republicans from Sen. John McCain down to state Rep. Justine Fox-Young, today launched an attack against McCain and voter intimidation, releasing a poignant 30-second ad. Entitled “Not This Time,” the ad ties McCain to the history of voter intimidation of blacks.
As NMI reported Monday, The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has filed a lawsuit against NM State Rep. Justine Fox Young, Al Romero and as-yet-unnamed members of the state Republican party. Fox-Young was the one who released…
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today filed a lawsuit against a Republican state lawmaker who released confidential information while making claims of vote fraud, a private investigator hired by a prominent Republican attorney, and as yet unnamed members of the state party. The lawsuit alleges that key members of the Republican Party of New Mexico violated the privacy rights of voters and illegally interfered with their right to vote.
The government watchdog group Common Cause New Mexico on Wednesday questioned the claims of voter fraud made last week by state Republicans. In a press release, the nonpartisan, nonprofit government watchdog group said it “concluded that recent assertions regarding ‘undeniable proof that there was voter fraud in the June election’ are simply inaccurate. Contrary to the claims of a Republican spokesperson, the copies of registration forms that the party released to the media last week do not constitute clear evidence of ‘voter fraud in the 2008 primary in Albuquerque.’”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a preliminary probe into 1,400 “potentially fraudulent” voter registration forms in Bernalillo County, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver told the newspaper she had turned over the suspicious forms to law enforcement, and said that’s proof that her office’s review of forms that are submitted to her office works.
