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.
Two media sources are reporting that former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson is going to enter the U.S. Senate race next week. This would be Wilson’s second Senate run.
Though Jeff Bingaman’s decision not to run for a sixth term in the United States Senate was just announced hours ago, already people are discussing who will run to replace New Mexico’s senior senator.
The Washington Post is reporting that Sen. Jeff Bingaman will announce his retirement today. Earlier this month, Public Policy Polling found the New Mexico Democrat to be a “near lock” for re-election, with an approval rating of 56 percent.
Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich, both Democrats, took to the floor of the House Wednesday to voice their opposition to the Republican spending bill. Both opposed cuts to the national labs that they say are key to the country’s defense.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, who has not yet announced his decision on whether to run for re-election, leads major potential Republican candidates in a poll released by the Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling. PPP showed that Bingaman had an extremely high approval rating: 56 percent approved of his job performance while just 27 percent disapproved, the fourth highest among senators polled in the last year by PPP.
President Barack Obama repeatedly said in his State of the Union address that America must “win the future.” This came amid talk about jobs, ending tax breaks for the oil and gas industry and even a joke about smoked salmon.
Albuquerque city councilor Dan Lewis announced this weekend that he is forming a congressional exploratory committee to potentially challenge Democratic incumbent Martin Heinrich in 2012. The release says that the Republican is “seriously considering” a run at the 1st Congressional District seat held by Heinrich since 2008.
Local politicians responded to the Saturday shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and others in Arizona. Giffords survived the shooting but at least six others died, including federal judge John Roll.
The New Mexico Air National Guard’s 150th Fighter Wing, known as the “Flying Tacos,” will join forces with the 58th Special Operations Wing, keeping 1,000 jobs at Kirtland Air Force Base, Rep. Martin Heinrich said Monday.
Two of New Mexico’s returning congressmen, Reps. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, voted against the tax-cut bill passed late last night by a 277-148 vote, while the congressman who lost in November’s elections, Rep. Harry Teague, voted in favor.
New Mexico’s congressmen are split on the tax cut-extension compromise that the White House brokered with Republicans. The compromise would extend tax cuts for those at all income levels, including those making $250,000 a year or more, and extend unemployment insurance for another 13 months.
Reps. Martin Heirnich and Ben Ray Luján both signed onto a letter opposing the deal while Rep. Harry Teague sent out a statement backing the proposal.
New Mexico Representatives Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján were in attendance as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sent the Pigford and Cobell settlements to President Barack Obama after the bills passed both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. The bill included a $3.4 billion settlement for Native American trust account holders and a $1.15 billion for black farmers.
The race between incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich and Republican Jon Barela was one of the highest rates of independent spending of any U.S. House race in the nation, ranking 12th. Of the slightly more than $3.8 million in independent expenditures…
Congressman Martin Heinrich, NM-CD1, won his first bid for re-election tonight. Polls showing his Republican challenger, Jon Barela, pulling ahead in the final weeks added an edge to the race, but Heinrich prevailed in the end. A primary reason, he told supporters during his victory speech, was that he didn’t hide from his record.
Democratic incumbent Martin Heinrich and Republican challenger Jon Barela are locked in a close race in Bernalillo County, the county that makes up much of the 1st Congressional District.
The early and absentee votes were nearly identical for the two…
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.
Independent expenditures in New Mexico’s 1st and 2nd Congressional Districts have now exceeded $6 million, according to Sunlight Foundation analysis of FEC reports. The bulk of the latest money came from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which spent more than…
In recent days out-of-state interests have pumped nearly half a million dollars into the 1st and 2nd Congressional District contests, pushing the amount of out-of-state spending in those two races closer to $5 million, So far, the money spent in opposition to one of the four candidates in the two races easily outpaces the dollars meant to support the candidates. The money has funded almost as a shadow campaign, largely keeping pace with the spending of the candidates’ campaigns themselves.
Jon Barela leads incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich by 2 percent in an internal poll conducted for the Barela campaign. The 49 percent to 47 percent lead is well within the poll’s 4.9 percent margin of error.
The last independent poll,…
Rep. Martin Heinrich still leads in cash on hand going into the homestretch of the campaign against Republican Jon Barela, according to the final campaign finance reports due before the Nov. 2 election.
Heinrich finished the period (pdf), which…
