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.
Tea Party leaders met with state Attorney General Gary King today to try to convince him to file a lawsuit against the federal government to repeal health care reform legislation that passed Congress and was signed by President Barack Obama…
New Mexico’s Tea Parties are planning to present Attorney General Gary King with a petition to join other states’ lawsuits against the federal government to reverse health care reform. But the tide seems to be turning against support for such a move, if letters to the AG website are any indication. After an initial flood of often vitriolic comments demanding New Mexico sue the federal government to halt health reform, mid-April brought a majority of letters opposed to such a suit, The Independent has found.
A new study of race and politics released this week by the University of Washington reveals insight into how supporters of the tea party movement—the vast majority of whom are white—view blacks and Hispanics. Of the 45 percent…
Albuquerque Tea Party organizers estimated that a crowd of 12,000 people attended the tax day tea party protest. They passed out stickers to attendees of the tea party protest to count them. “Exactly 9,028 stickers were handed out at the…
Hundreds of placard-waving Tea Party activists in Albuquerque weren’t sheepish Thursday about sharing ideas on where to trim government fat. Eliminate the federal Department of Education. Reduce foreign aid. Starve the defense budget. Cut back or phase out big domestic spending programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. They all came up as potential cost-savings measures.
Several hundred people filled the state capital’s historic Plaza for a Tea Party rally on Tax day.
But the event in liberal-leaning Santa Fe (the county voted 76.8 percent for Obama in 2008), found supporters and…
Most of the 100 participants interviewed by The Independent at tea party events in Albuquerque in Santa Fe Thursday said they will probably vote in the Republican primary in June—but they haven’t yet settled on a candidate.
A nationwide New York Times/CBS News poll released yesterday finds that a majority (53 percent) of tea party supporters are “angry about the way things are going in Washington,” most (63 percent) watch Fox News, and they are more than…
A tea party group from New Mexico is part of a new national organization, the National Tea Party Federation. The New Mexico Patriots group is one of 23 in the federation. Other national conservative groups such as the Americans…
According to a recent Gallup poll, tea partiers are mostly white (79 percent), conservative (70 percent) and male (55 percent). While 68 percent of tea party supporters have not graduated from college, 55 percent—make more than $50,000 per year.…
A recent Quinnipiac University poll shows the vast majority of those in the Tea Party movement consider themselves Republicans or Republican-leaning Independents. Although a Republican would beat a Democrat on a generic House ballot (that is, an unnamed Republican…
Ten Republican state attorneys general are threatening to sue the federal government over health care reform. But beneath the headlines, press releases, petitions and donation drives that followed the historic vote in Congress, lawyers and legislators are less confident that health care reform can be repealed — much less that it can be repealed quickly.
After the “youthful indiscretions” of Clinton, Bush and Obama, the question of who inhaled and who didn’t is mostly a yawner. Some Tea Partiers who attended an Albuquerque gubernatorial candidates forum said they’re concerned about admissions from three GOP candidates who’ve admitted doing drugs in the past, while others said the past should remain just that.
An e-mail blast to supporters from Santa Fe mayor David Coss’s campaign highlights his opponent’s tie to the Santa Fe Tea Party.
Republican candidate for the 3rd Congressional District Tom Mullins took a swipe at his sole opponent in the Republican primary, Adam Kokesh, in a post on his official campaign blog yesterday. Mullins wrote that he believes that the actions…
Since the first announcements about the National Tea Party Convention, in November 2009, the high-priced, first-of-its kind event has been a magnet for controversy, a divisive subject within the burgeoning movement and a punching bag for local and national media.
“Conservative Republican voters [who say they are the base of the party] believe Obama is deliberately and ruthlessly advancing a ‘secret agenda’ to bankrupt our country and dramatically expand government control over all aspects of our daily lives,” says a
About 40 protesters, some wearing “Santa Fe Tea Party” t-shirts, gathered in the Roundhouse rotunda Saturday morning to show their support for free market economics.
Paul Gessing, President of the Rio Grande Foundation said that he gives credit to Governor…
There is in our country a deep divide between those who see an activist government as the best solution to most of society’s problems, and those who believe that believe it is not the role of government to engineer a utopian society. The majority of Santa Fesinos fall into the former category, but those of us in the latter comprise a significant and politically active minority. Our daily paper attempts to marginalize us at its own peril.
Between 1,200 and 1,400 people showed up Tuesday evening for a tea party protest in Las Cruces that’s part of a nationwide tour, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News.
The Tea Party Express also made a stop…
