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.
Former Bush White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove will headline a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson on August 11 in Albuquerque.
U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson appeared alongside former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove at an event in Colorado this week, prompting Democrats to criticize Wilson once again for her role in the firing of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.
Independent Republican groups, working in coordination, have been spending tens of millions of dollars on election ads throughout the country—and hundreds of thousands of dollars in New Mexico. Democrat-leaning groups have spent too, but not nearly as much.
Three high-powered donors were responsible for $350,000 in donations to Susana Martinez’s campaign over the past few months: Foster Friess, Michael Bleyzer and B. Wayne Hughes. The three are all prominent Republicans with connections to powerful GOP leaders including Donald…
Conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh is “tough as nails” on illegal immigration, a recorded phone message from Republican political strategist Karl Rove is telling thousands of New Mexico voters.
Karl Rove, a former White House deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to President George W. Bush, will be in Albuquerque on May 1 for a Republican fundraiser. Attendees will receive a copy of his book, Courage and…
In another New Mexico-themed rebuke of former White House senior advisor Karl Rove’s upcoming book “Courage and Consequences,” Ambassador Joe Wilson blogged at The Huffington Post that Rove’s book “is less memoir than hoax.” Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame Wilson,…
Some of the least convincing score-settling in “Courage and Consequences” comes when Karl Rove attempts to rebut the charge that he politicized the appointment of U.S. attorneys — the chapter dealing with this is titled “Rove: the Myth.” For…
As all regular readers of the New Mexico Independent should know by now, former White House advisor Karl Rove and former deputy chief of staff Harriet Miers gave behind-the-scenes testimony to the House Judiciary Committee. Now, Jason Leopold of The…
Wow. Now that’s some creative marketing. The envelope in the mailbox this morning said, “Thinking of switching to CREDO? That’s not part of Rove’s master plan.”
Inside was a small flyer with a picture of former President Bush’s political…
As former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias continues his impromptu media tour following a document dump and the release of House Judiciary Committee testimony by Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, he told Talking Points Memo that he “feel[s] one hundred…
“I didn’t need a state Senator from Roswell, New Mexico opining about who the U.S. Attorney ought to be when this is going to be largely the province of the United States Senator who is going to give us a…
Scott Jennings, a special assistant to then-President George W. Bush — and Karl Rove’s-right hand man — wanted to replace fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias with prominent New Mexico GOP attorney Pat Rogers, who he described as “the dream” candidate. Rogers had aggressively lobbied Iglesias to pursue cases of voter intimidation, which he said was “the single best wedge issue ever in New Mexico.”
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias told Newsweek that the new e-mails released related to the controversial 2006 firings of U.S. Attorneys across the nation, including himself, “There were improper and potentially illegal — as in criminally illegal — reasons…
It isn’t just former GOP Congresswoman Heather Wilson who has her name getting put through the press for the wrong reasons. Former state Republican Party chairman Allen Weh has his name in the David Iglesias firing case, the one that state…
E-mails released today may appear to indicate that someone in the White House had the race between former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., and Democratic challenger Patricia Madrid in mind when discussing former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias’ job performance in the weeks before he was fired.
Former George W. Bush senior advisor Karl Rove spoke to the House Judiciary Committee in July and now the committee has released the transcripts of his testimony as well as that of former White House Deputy Chief of Staff…
Two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn is in talks to join Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts in “Fair Game,” a movie about the “drama about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson,” according to Variety.
Plame Wilson and her…
Former White House deputy chief of staff and current Fox News commentator Karl Rove once again failed to appear to give testimony in front of a House committee. Rove was scheduled to appear in front of the House Judiciary…
The full version of The Associated Press story detailing a subpoena of former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici’s records is now available.
It looks like Domenici isn’t the main target of the investigation by federal prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy —…
