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The man who lost to Jerome Block Jr. in November for a seat on the state’s Public Regulation Commission (PRC) said Wednesday that the eight indictments of Block handed down today by a grand jury are a “strike” against him, but the PRC chair says Block is doing “a good job.”

As Marjorie Childress noted in NMI’s blog roundup, Democracy for New Mexico highlighted some donations by Val Kilmer to Ralph Nader, even after Democratic nominee and now President Barack Obama secured his party’s nomination.
In fact, the donations from the actor to Nader came less than a month before the Democratic National Convention in Denver — [...]

New Mexico is one of only 16 states that still has a straight-party voting option on its ballots, and Green Party candidate Rick Lass says he will lobby to abolish it. A beheaded man was left hanging from an overpass in Ciudad Juarez Thursday, a gruesome calling card in the latest violence in the Mexican [...]

Despite challenges to his campaign expenditures by the secretary of state’s office, Democratic Public Regulation Commission candidate Jerome Block Jr. took the northern District 3 Public Regulation Commission seat being vacated by newly elected Congressman Ben Ray Lujan in an unofficial tally count of 56.2 percent of the vote.

On Friday night I got a chance to sit down separately with two candidates for the Public Regulation Commission — the Green Party’s Rick Lass and Democrat Jason Marks — for KNME’s “New Mexico In Focus.”