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.
State Sen. Dianna Duran made history Tuesday, becoming the first Republican to in 80 years to win election as the New Mexico Secretary of State. Unofficial results showed Duran winning nearly 59 percent of the vote to defeat first-term incumbent Mary Herrera, who collected just over 41 percent.
Dianna Duran is ready to claim a victory in the Secretary of State’s race.
“I am ready to say the people of New Mexico have spoken,” she told The Independent before taking the podium at the Albuquerque Hilton where Republicans…
Dem, Republican volunteers ‘equally aggressive,’ Taos Clerk says
More than 200,000 New Mexicans chose to cast their ballots early this year according to the Secretary of State’s office. That’s a much higher early vote turnout than the last midterm election, in 2006, when about 132,500 people cast early ballots.…
Republican secretary of state candidate Dianna Duran reported raising $77,000 in contributions for the three-week period ending Tuesday, according to a campaign finance report filed Thursday.
The contributions came in the waning weeks of the 2010 election season as…
In a sharp rebuke of Democratic Secretary of State Mary Herrera (whose office will announce next Tuesday’s election results), five of New Mexico’s major newspapers endorsed state Sen. Diana Duran, Herrera’s Republican challenger.
New Mexico county clerks said it was taking them hours to print out voter sign-in rosters today because of slow computers at the Secretary of State’s office. The Secretary of State IT director says the problem is being resolved, but nervous clerks are working out a Plan B just in case.
Secreatry of State Mary Herrera reported raising $9,425 in the most recent campaign reporting period and finished the period with $51,400.331 cash on hand, much less than her Republican opponent on both counts, according to reports filed with the…
Republican Secretary of State candidate Dianna Duran took in $54,000 during the latest fundraising period, with substantial help from the state Republican Party, according to a report filed at the Secretary of State’s office.
Duran, a GOP state senator…
The state’s largest newspaper on Sunday endorsed two Republicans and one Democrat in three statewide races.
Republican Secretary of State candidate Dianna Duran and GOP Attorney General candidate Matthew Chandler won endorsements from The Albuquerque Journal, as…
In an interview with Heath Haussamen, New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera said she thinks her former elections director, A.J. Salazar invented a break-in at his office in order to help Herrera’s Republican opponent, Dianna Duran, win…
Stephanie DuBois has worked as a dog trainer, bookkeeper and waitress, and managed the Deming Chamber of Commerce for three years. Outgoing Land Commissioner Pat Lyons is a former legislator who has overseen the state Land Office for the past eight years. The two are competing for a seat on New Mexico’s most powerful regulatory agency, the Public Regulation Commission. And each has a different vision on how the agency should be run.
Secretary of State Mary Herrera’s decision to add a space to November ballots for a write-in candidate for governor was legal, Assistant Attorney General Tania Maestas wrote Thursday in letters to Herrera and state Sen. Howie C. Morales, D-Silver City.…
Secretary of State Mary Herrera has approved Bloomfield Republican and self-described tea party supporter Kenneth A. Gomez’s registration as a write-in candidate for governor in the November general elections, according to state Elections Manager Don Francisco Trujillo.…
Embattled Secretary of State Mary Herrera and her Republican challenger Dianna Duran raised almost exactly the same amount in the last quarter, with Duran bringing in $29,070 to Herrera’s $28,681. But while Herrera’s still got $74,465.04 cash on hand, Duran only has…
Secretary of State Mary Herrera declined to respond to allegations made by three of her former staff members in an interview with The Independent on Friday, saying she hadn’t seen “the exact allegations.”
“I haven’t seen what they’re claiming.…
First-term Democratic Secretary of State Mary Herrera is giving some New Mexico Democrats heartburn as the Nov. 2 election election approaches. Whether Democrats like it or not, the embattled Herrera is on the ballot. The deadline for replacing a candidate on the ballot passed on Sept. 7.
Two former aides to Secretary of State Mary Herrera who were fired this week will sue their former boss for retaliation under the state’s whistleblower act, their attorney said Wednesday. Herrera’s deputy, Francisco Trujillo II, denied that the two were fired for going to the FBI with allegations of wrongdoing by Herrera, but also declined to give another reason for the terminations, saying only: “It’s a personnel matter and I won’t go into it.”
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.
Things just keep getting worse for embattled New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera. Last night, in an incredible report, KUNM’s Jim Williams talked to current and former employees who describe the office as “dysfunctional.” And that was the nicest…
