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.
The drone attacks that killed Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen have sparked renewed talks of due process for U.S. born citizens alleged to have been involved in terrorist activity.
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson will be allowed to participate in Thursday’s Fox News debate in Orlando, Fla., among Republican presidential candidates, The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz reports
Republican presidential candidates hoping to make a little political hay wasted little time Friday in offering statements on a dismal jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor
Most New Mexicans still have a favorable view of former Gov. Gary Johnson, whereas other 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls are all unpopular, according to Public Policy Polling.
The conventional political wisdom says that the entry of Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, into the presidential race is bad news for former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson since the two will compete for similar voters in the Republican primary. However, a former Giuliani speechwriter and the staffers at High Times, the magazine devoted to marijuana, both agree that Johnson is the better choice between the two longshot libertarian Republicans.
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson will announce a run for president in April, according to a report from Fox News on Friday. Johnson served two terms as governor in the 1990s and early 2000s and has often been cited a a potential presidential candidate, including for the Libertarian Party.
Sarah Palin may be a weak candidate in a general election in New Mexico, but she would receive significant support in the primary, according to a poll by Public Policy Polling. The survey also shows that though former Gov. Gary Johnson would be the strongest Republican candidate against President Barack Obama in New Mexico, he would be tied for fourth place in a Republican primary.
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson came in third at the Conservative Political Action Committee straw poll this weekend. Johnson, likely buoyed by the support from thousands of Ron Paul fans, finished well behind Paul — who for the second year came in first.
Ron Paul, a Republican candidate for President in 2008, said in a recent interview that he has not yet decided whether he will run again in 2012, but that he thinks former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson would be…
According to a recent academic study, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is one of the Senators with a true claim at being a “maverick.” This came on the heels of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., telling Newsweek that he never…
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson came in last place in a Presidential straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, held in New Orleans this past weekend. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the straw poll—which Nate Silver…
Washington D.C. journalists have been analyzing the fallout of the surprising victory by Ron Paul, R-Texas, in a conservative straw poll held this weekend. Paul easily outdistanced his second-place competitor, Mitt Romney, R-Mass., and the rest of the conservative…
Libertarian attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference packed room after room for lectures by the likes of Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano and likely 2012 presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico.
“The support that I’ve found surprising is sitting down with what would be described as right-wing Christian Republicans and finding support. That’s been a surprise,” Johnson said during a visit to Washington, D.C., this week.
In an interview with ABC News, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, a libertarian Republican, took some clear shots at potential 2012 Republican Presidential candidates, saying “All the other candidates– all the other suspects … if you put a piece…
Adam Kokesh, a candidate for Congress in New Mexico’s 3rd district, is looking like the Republican front-runner just one short year after he crashed the Republican National Convention. Over the course of a year, he’s made the move from confrontation-seeking anti-war activist to clean-cut politician in the mold of the man he supported in 2008, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
Here’s an interesting tidbit brought to our attention by our Washington bureau. Adam Kokesh, who is running for Congress as a Republican in the deeply Democratic 3rd Congressional district that includes Santa Fe and Taos, has posted on…
It’s almost like clockwork. Libertarian Republicans, many of whom are opposed to the political leadership of the Republican Party, are looking for a politician to be their standard-bearer. This year, after enthusiastically backing Ron Paul in 2008, the Santa…
The Washington Independent has an interesting article today about how two Ron Paul-backed GOP candidates — one of them Paul’s son — are causing headaches for mainstream Republican operatives who favor other candidates in what promise to be important…
