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.
Scott Jennings, a special assistant to then-President George W. Bush — and Karl Rove’s-right hand man — wanted to replace fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias with prominent New Mexico GOP attorney Pat Rogers, who he described as “the dream” candidate. Rogers had aggressively lobbied Iglesias to pursue cases of voter intimidation, which he said was “the single best wedge issue ever in New Mexico.”
Nobody thought Democrat Karen Giannini was going to win her Northeast Heights Albuquerque race. Nobody. Justine Fox-Young, considered by many a Republican rising star, was sitting pretty in a so-called “safe” Republican seat. But somehow, an Air-Force veteran and divorced mother of three defied the odds and rode a Democratic wave to a new gig in Santa Fe — and without spending a dime. No one was more surprised than the candidate herself. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding?’ All I could think was: ‘Boy, Justine is really going to be upset. If she finds out what I did — or didn’t do — she’s gonna have conniptions.”
Although the election went relatively smoothly on Nov. 4, the voter registration process was plagued by scandal and partisan warfare in the months leading up to the vote. Now some legislators and voting rights groups want to change the way we handle voter registration, making it an automatic, universal process.
New Mexico voting rights advocates reported this morning that there have been few problems reported so far on this election day. Nationally, the McCain/Palin campaign held a conference call with reporters on the subject of vote fraud—without saying anything about any actual vote fraud. And poll workers in Albuquerque’s North Valley blame early voting for a slow day at the polls.
US District Judge William P. Johnson declined today to issue a restraining order against GOP attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero, but the voter intimidation case continues.
After moving courtrooms and switching judges several times Monday, US District Judge William P. Johnson heard arguments in a case brought against GOP attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). Several interesting…
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.
A third plaintiff, Francine Gonzales, has now joined a federal lawsuit accusing two Republican operatives of voter intimidation. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Martha Vázquez will conduct a hearing to consider the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s request for a temporary restraining order against Republican attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero.
An attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice met with a staff attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today regarding reports of voter intimidation here, said a spokesperson for ACLU.
ACORN, the organization that has become a favorite whipping boy of Republicans from Sen. John McCain down to state Rep. Justine Fox-Young, today launched an attack against McCain and voter intimidation, releasing a poignant 30-second ad. Entitled “Not This Time,” the ad ties McCain to the history of voter intimidation of blacks.
As NMI reported Monday, The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has filed a lawsuit against NM State Rep. Justine Fox Young, Al Romero and as-yet-unnamed members of the state Republican party. Fox-Young was the one who released…
On Monday, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a federal lawsuit against state Republican Party attorney Pat Rogers and a private investigator who said he worked for Rogers in an attempt to “block threats and intimidation of eligible Latino voters.”
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today filed a lawsuit against a Republican state lawmaker who released confidential information while making claims of vote fraud, a private investigator hired by a prominent Republican attorney, and as yet unnamed members of the state party. The lawsuit alleges that key members of the Republican Party of New Mexico violated the privacy rights of voters and illegally interfered with their right to vote.
This just in: The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has announced a press conference this morning at which it will discuss a lawsuit it filed this morning. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Project Vote also filed suit today. New Mexico State Senator Justine Fox-Young, Republican Party attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero are all named in the suits.
Common Cause New Mexico just announced that it is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate charges of voter intimidation in New Mexico, after NMI reported that a private investigator hired by Republican Party of New Mexico attorney Pat…
The AP reports today that State Sen. Leonard Lee Rawson of Las Cruces has named 32 people in his district whom he believes have registered to vote more than once. He sent an e-mail to Doña Ana County…
As we reported last night, two Albuquerque women said they were visited Wednesday by a private investigator who identified himself as Al Romero and said he worked for Republican attorney Pat Rogers. Is he the private investigator Rogers…
Republican Party attorney Pat Rogers refused to say Thursday if a private detective who visited the addresses of two of the 10 Albuquerque voters cited at a news conference last week about voter fraud was working for the GOP.
The government watchdog group Common Cause New Mexico on Wednesday questioned the claims of voter fraud made last week by state Republicans. In a press release, the nonpartisan, nonprofit government watchdog group said it “concluded that recent assertions regarding ‘undeniable proof that there was voter fraud in the June election’ are simply inaccurate. Contrary to the claims of a Republican spokesperson, the copies of registration forms that the party released to the media last week do not constitute clear evidence of ‘voter fraud in the 2008 primary in Albuquerque.’”
