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 League of United Latin American Citizens is denying a claim by U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., that its members supported repealing birthright citizenship. Some Republicans have supported a law that would end giving citizenship to those born on United States soil unless the parents are citizens or permanent legal residents.
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.
The repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the U.S. military’s policy of banning openly gay servicemembers, was signed into law late last year. Nevertheless, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) has already introduced a bill that would require the signature of chiefs of the four branches of the military to sign off on the repeal as well. Republican Rep. Steve Pearce is among 18 cosponsors of the bill.
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.
Representative-elect Steve Pearce will start his second run in the U.S. House with at least one “plum” committee position, according to the Wall Street Journal. The 2nd District Republican will sit on the House Financial Services Committee, a committee that usually doesn’t feature newly elected members in its ranks but a committee which Pearce has served on before.
The Center For Responsive Politics released a report Wednesday illustrating how many members of Congress had grown richer during the recession. Rep. Harry Teague (D-N.M.), who lost his seat to Steve Pearce earlier this month in a rematch of the 2008 election, ranked 13th out of 435 House members in net wealth.
Republican Steve Pearce appears headed back to Washington. The Democratic incumbent, Harry Teague, called Steve Pearce to congratulate him Tuesday night and told supporters that representing southern New Mexico was the “greatest honor of his life.”
Local TV station KRQE has called the 2nd Congressional District election for Republican Steve Pearce. Pearce was facing incumbent Democrat Harry Teague for the seat which Pearce held before running for Senate in 2008.
As the numbers in the Secretary…
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…
Steve Pearce and Harry Teague, competing to represent the 2nd Congressional District in Congress, will meet tonight at New Mexico State University for a debate hosted by New Mexico First and moderated by Sam Donaldson. Thanks to KNME we’ll have…
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.
Candidates in New Mexico’s 2nd and 3rd Congressional Districts faced off at televised debates this weekend on KOAT. The Albuquerque-based station has the videos on its website though it will take a bit of clicking to watch either of…
Rep. Harry Teague and former Rep. Steve Pearce are neck and neck in cash on hand entering the final weeks of the race for the 2nd Congressional District seat. For the period ending October 13, Pearce had $367,000 cash on…
Out-of-state groups have conducted a shadow campaign in the 1st and 2nd Congressional District contests this year, dumping nearly $4 million to sway the outcome of the two races, records show. The tsunami of cash is part of a growing trend nationally in which outside groups swoop in to hot congressional race to run what are usually attack ads, pay for mass mailings or conduct surveys. And it has election and campaign finance reformers concerned.
Steve Pearce leads Harry Teague by 9 points according to an internal poll—with a relatively high margin of error—released by the Pearce campaign. This is the largest lead that has been shown in any poll so far.
Another day, another couple of independent expenditures in New Mexico Congressional races. This time, the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund is airing ads against Republican Jon Barela in the 1st Congressional District and a new group which calls itself Accountability…
Former Rep. Steve Pearce outraised his 2nd Congressional District opponent, incumbent Democrat Harry Teague, in the 3rd quarter $600,000 to $350,000, according to campaign finance reports. Pearce also leads in cash on hand, with $885,000 as of the end of…
A spokesman for Steve Pearce says the candidate will not return or donate the $4,800 given to his campaign by Clayton Williams, the man who compared rape to bad weather, saying, “As long as it’s inevitable, you might as well…
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has added another $170,000 to the 2nd Congressional District race according to reports dated October 12 and 13. This brings the DCCC’s spending in the southernmost congressional district to over $435,000.
The race is a…
The campaign for former Republican congressman Steve Pearce raised $592,367 over a three-month period from July through September, bringing to $2 million the total raised, according to a statement the campaign just released.
Pearce, a three-term congressman, hopes to defeat…
