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.
According to a national poll by The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, health care is still on the minds of the public, while news on jobs is still seen as bad despite some positive…
The RNC’s field trip to a lesbian-bondage-themed strip club has accelerated and amplified a revolt that had been brewing for months. It’s given the growing number of conservative PACs and projects a new selling point to potential donors. And it’s emboldened the sizable number of loose-lipped Republican activists who are working to create new institutions outside of the chairman’s purview.
Organizing for America (OFA), a project of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is now pushing back on radio ads from the Republican National Committee (RNC) that are targeting House Democrats, Democracy for New Mexico reports.
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.
Yesterday, CNN’s John King set off a firestorm of buzz across the political world with the news that top officials in the John McCain campaign believed that New Mexico, Colorado and Iowa are lost causes.
This morning, New Mexico Independent…
On Monday, national Republicans retreated slightly from the charges of voter fraud in New Mexico after ACORN proved some of their charges wrong over the weekend. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign said that claims of voter fraud represent “a coordinated attack by Republican surrogates from Washington all the way down to the county level in the states.” And now come signs of media pushback against the voter fraud meme.
Talking Points Memo’s (TPM) Muckraker division is reporting today that the Republican National Committee (RNC) may be backing off claims of voter fraud in New Mexico’s June primaries.
On an RNC conference call about New Mexico’s ACORN issues, TPM…
