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Former U.S. Representative Steve Pearce, who lost his bid to replace Sen. Pete Domenici last fall, wants his 2nd Congressional District Seat back. Today he announced he'll run for the Republican Party nomination and try to unseat first-term Representative Harry Teague. Pearce wasn't expected to make a final decision until after July 20th, but made the decision to campaign over the 4th of Jul...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - 10:05 a.m.
Peace activist and Iraq war veteran Adam Kokesh launched his campaign for Congress this past holiday weekend. Kokesh raised $25,000 online on Independence Day as part of a “money bomb” from the supporters of Texas Congressman Ron Paul — the libertarian-leaning ex-GOP presidential candidate. The money was raised “despite servers being overwhelmed and crashing.” Some s...
New Mexico Independent - 10:05 a.m.
Mayor Martin Chavez , Albuquerque’s conspicuously all-but-declared candidate for re-election, looks like he's inching closer to declaring his official ambition for a fourth-term as mayor. According to his political Web site, the issue seems settled....
New Mexico Independent - 10:05 a.m.
Richard Romero is changing campaign managers according to a press release from the campaign this morning. "Murray Fishel is a nationally known campaign consultant and has been a long time trusted advisor who will be serving as the campaign's lead strategist," Romero said. "He will help guide our march to victory over the next 3 months and help us chart a new way forward for Albuquerque." The pre...
New Mexico FBIHOP - 10:05 a.m.
After leaving his 2nd Congressional District seat last year to run for Senator and losing badly on the statewide stage, former Congressman Steve Pearce is going to run against Democratic Congressman Harry Teague for the 2nd Congressional District seat. Pearce held the seat from January 2003 to this January. Teague defeated Republican Ed Tinsley last year by more than ten percentage points. Acco...
New Mexico FBIHOP - 10:05 a.m.
Peace & Liberty activist and Iraq war veteran, Adam Kokesh, announced a bid for the congressional seat in New Mexico's Third Congressional District. Kokesh announced he's already raised $25,000, in a single-day web event fundraiser despite computer servers being overwhelmed and crashing. He said in a news release that his campaign signs are springing up all over the district urging people to j...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - 9:42 a.m.
The Santa Fe New Mexican has a good story on Cochiti Pueblo and Cochiti Dam. In the 1950s, this was their playground as boys. They would swim in the river, hunt birds and scoop up Rio Grande silvery minnows by the bucketful. “We used to fry them up. They were really good,” Pecos recalled, [...]...
NewMexiKen - 9:42 a.m.
Daniel McCoy, of Grants, was arrested Friday after a Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputy spotted him near Dennis Chavez and 118th SW speeding and crossing over the center yellow lines into oncoming traffic, according to a criminal complaint. The deputy stopped McCoy, and observed a little girl sitting on McCoy’s lap. The complaint said when the deputy [...]...
NewMexiKen - 9:42 a.m.
“Well, it seems that Manny Ramirez is back with the Los Angeles Dodgers, having done his time both under suspension and in Albuquerque, N.M., which seems just a touch redundant.” Charles P. Pierce The rest of the essay is as good as any Manny analysis I’ve seen, though. ...
NewMexiKen - 9:42 a.m.
With just 90 days before this fall's city election Richard Romero's mayoral campaign is introducing a new lead strategist. Romero says Murray Fishel, the president of Grassroots Political Campaigns, Inc., and a long time trusted adviser, is taking over the reigns of his campaign. Fishel will replace New Mexico political consultant Neri Holguin who's been leading Romero's campaign since R...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - 8:44 a.m.
Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez won’t officially move into his new Barelas office as the next executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center until July 25. But in an interview for this past weekend’s New Mexico In Focus, Rael-Gálvez gave a preview of his vision for the Albuquerque-based center — and plenty of historical and cultural insight to boot. “We are in [...]...
New Mexico Independent - 7:06 a.m.
Surely, architecture can tell you something about government. The Albuquerque and Bernalillo County City-County Government Center at One Civic Plaza was completed in 1984 - the year I began work. Early reviews were critical. They said it was the result......
Cocoposts - 6:25 a.m.
Kevin Daniels GOP businessman Kevin Daniels continues to take quiet steps toward a run for the ABQ congressional seat, despite the wish of some R's at the top of the food chain that attorney Jon Barela go unopposed for the nomination. But Daniels isn't hearing them. A political advisor to the owner of a chain of funeral homes says Daniels will be in Washington this week introducing himself ...
Joe Monahan - Sun 11:36 p.m. - 4 clicks 
In what might well go down as the most infantile oped ever written by a political 'leader', GOP Party Chairman Harvey Yates of Yates Petroleum, I have figured out that this Tea Party wingnut group really is being funded by the Republicans and the oil and gas industry. It is just logic. Bear with me. I know, this is silly. According to the Albuquerque Journal this morning the Tea Party partici...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Sun 9:45 a.m. - 6 clicks
Maybe Allen Weh is a fan of Saturday Night Live and a fan of the actor Kenan Thompson (personally, I'm not a fan of Thompson). But he was clearly channeling Oscar Rogers, a character of Thompson's, that appeared on the Weekend Update portion of Saturday Night Live (clip here ). When blogger/radio reporter Peter St. Cyr asked him about his plans for education, WEh responded: We're going to comp...
New Mexico FBIHOP - Sun 4:47 a.m. - 5 clicks
Hundreds, if not thousands, of frustrated voters lined up along Alameda Boulevard on Saturday afternoon, for the second Albuquerque Tea Rally which organizers called The Spirit of 1776 . They skipped backyard barbecues and weekend getaways to show their discontent for both political parties and "out of control spending" here and in Washington. Some signed up to vote, others filled o...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Sat 6:42 p.m. - 5 clicks
Antoinette, (my wife) and I just got home from the 4th of July Parade in Rio Rancho. It was a lot of fun and we saw several old friends. The parade organizers put our float in position just in front of one of my opponents. I don't know if that was planned or coincidence but we had fun. The two campaign camps introduced ourselves to each other and it was very cordial both before and after the pa...
Greg Solano for Lt. Governor - Sat 2:08 p.m. - 7 clicks
This morning's story about tea parties happening today in Albuquerque made me laugh. Why? Apparently, the Fourth of July Tea Partiers believe that "The Albuquerque group plans to show off its numbers today with an event that organizers hope can draw more than 10,000 people." The last event was closer to 1,000 than 10,000. Or even 2,000. Also, national coverage of the events has fallen off f...
New Mexico FBIHOP - Sat 12:57 a.m. - 5 clicks
Happy Birthday USA! Happy 4th everyone. Be Safe and Have fun! Look for me in the Rio Rancho July 4th Parade! The Undersheriff , Robert Garcia will be at Santa Fe's Pancake Breakfast on the Plaza. ...
Greg Solano for Lt. Governor - Sat 12:19 a.m. - 2 clicks
Happy Birthday USA! Happy 4th everyone. Be Safe and Have fun! Look for me in the Rio Rancho July 4th Parade! The Undersheriff , Robert Garcia will be at Santa Fe's Pancake Breakfast on the Plaza. ...
Sheriff Greg Solano Blog - Fri 11:47 p.m. - 9 clicks
Updated to include audio soundbites. Just months after New Mexico lawmakers cut school funding in the state by $30 million, Governor Bill Richardson flew to San Diego today, from Cape Cod, where he is vacationing for 11 days, to accept the National Education Association's "America's Greatest Education Governor Award." The annual award recognizes governors who have made major state-level e...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Fri 6:21 p.m. - 2 clicks
With candidates increasingly getting people connected to their campaigns through the use of social media, it is no surprise to see the mayoral campaign of former New Mexico Senate President Pro Tem Richard Romero turn to an Albuquerque-based social network to solicit ideas to help improve public safety. “Every citizen has, or should have, an opinion, [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 4:42 p.m. - 4 clicks
With candidates increasingly getting people connected to their campaigns through the use of social media, it is no surprise to see the mayoral campaign of former state Senate Pro Tem Richard Romero turning to an Albuquerque-based social network to solicit ideas to help improve public safety. "Every citizen has, or should have, an opinion, story or theory on Albuquerque public safety," the post ...
New Mexico FBIHOP - Fri 3:41 p.m. - 3 clicks
Albuquerque City Councilor Michael Cadigan is taking heat from his two District 5 challengers for planning a public safety postcard initiative using both city funds and a city employee to do the leg work. The postcards, which have yet to be sent out according to a KOB-TV report, urge residents to close their garage doors in [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 10:44 a.m. - 6 clicks
With no great fanfare and little national media coverage, the people who organized the April 15 Tea Parties are gearing up for a new day of protests against government spending and higher taxes. Hundreds of rallies will take place, at least one in every state, in public places and in parks rented out for the occasions. ...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 10:44 a.m. - 6 clicks
Let us cheer poor Gov. Mark Sanford’s discovery that his frailty is “human.” As for knowing that the Lord wants him to remain governor, well, Sanford would seem at least one blue corn tortilla short of a combo plate. So let’s give him time to reorder....
New Mexico Independent - Fri 10:44 a.m. - 6 clicks
New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera said Wednesday that she was “optimistic” that the computer systems in her office that enable database searches and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filings via her Web site would be back online Thursday. As of the publication of this posting, the UCC filings database is operational. But it appears to [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 8:34 a.m. - 3 clicks
Albuquerque mayoral candidate Richard Romero sent out an e-mail to supporters yesterday in honor of the upcoming 4th of July holiday (it’s tomorrow, have you bought your fireworks yet?). In it, he hit incumbent mayor Martin Chavez again — this time on the issue of term limits. One of the sacred causes of our democratic system of government [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 8:34 a.m. - 3 clicks
This headline greeted me on the Albuquerque Journal’s Web site yesterday: State’s fasted growing city? Cuba. Ahh, another story about the Rainbow gathering, I told myself, referring to that annual event that where thousands of folks converge for a week to live in an intentional community. Rainbow gatherings are unique events. Think the 1960s hippies crossed with [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 8:20 a.m. - 6 clicks
The Republican Party suffered an historic defeat in 2008 in New Mexico, mostly because of the failed economic policies of George W. Bush. In 2010, the GOP is looking for a sort of a comeback, with statewide positions up for election including the big prize, that of governor. But, as this story from CQ Politics shows, it isn't clear what ideas the Republican Party has besides focusing on corrup...
New Mexico FBIHOP - Fri 8:01 a.m. - 3 clicks
Marjorie Childress noted at NMI how Albuquerque mayor Martin Chavez was getting a lot of feedback on Facebook for a certain status update : Marty Chavez is proposing that the state liquor regulators allow bars to stay open an hour after they close to let their patrons drink coffee and soft drinks or eat food to improve their sobriety and to also allow for a place to hang and wait for a taxi o...
New Mexico FBIHOP - Thu 7:03 p.m.
Something jumped out at me about this article in the Huffington Post about how some members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus helped get a key provision in the climate bill that passed the House last week. You can read about the provision over at the Huffington Post. And established civil rights groups like the NAACP, Democracia USA, and Leadership Conferen...
New Mexico FBIHOP - Thu 1:47 p.m. - 4 clicks
I wrote about tea party types invading a Tom Udall town hall and generally acting like, well, jerks. Turns out they did the same thing at a Harry Teague event and made themselves look even more like jerks. Check out the recollections of an attendee at Democracy for New Mexico : About 30 people wanted Congressman Teague to stop talking to the individuals and address them as a group. The Congr...
New Mexico FBIHOP - Wed 10:49 p.m. - 4 clicks
Photo Credits: MG Bralley var addthis_pub="peters1963" No it's not "that." Former U.S. Representative Heather Wilson is not ready to make any political announcements. She hasn't decided whether or not she's going to jump into the Republican race for Governor in 2010. She's not being coy, but she is packing her bags for a long trip to Africa. Wilson told her Facebook friends that she's ma...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Wed 5:26 p.m. - 8 clicks
Valle de Atrisco is to be the name of the new town in the South Valley, says the Albuquerque Journal. Other little details will be worked out later. Important stuff. Like who'll get to be El Alcalde - Miguel? Burque......
Cocoposts - Wed 6:22 a.m. - 3 clicks
It was famously said by Vice-President John Nance Garner that his office was "not worth a bucket of warm spit." The same might be said for New Mexico's #2 position, but never have so many wanted so little. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the latest list of prospective and announced Democratic 2010 Lieutenant Governor candidates as updated by our Senior Alligators: ABQ State Senator Lind...
Joe Monahan - Tue 11:45 p.m. - 3 clicks
Secy's Donovan and Vilsack var addthis_pub="peters1963" A day after First Lady Michelle Obama announced that nearly $13-million dollars was being granted to rural New Mexico Community Health Centers, the administration has announced President Barack Obama's 2009 Rural Tour will make a stop in New Mexico. Las Cruces is the last city listed on the schedule for top Administration officia...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Tue 4:01 p.m. - 3 clicks
Mikaela says : A link on This American Life.org sends you to Yahoo's Babel Fish (Yay Douglas Adams fans!), which translates literally from Russian into English. The blurb describes Ira's upcoming trip to Moscow to speak about the power of radio. That's not the fabulous thing. The fabulous thing is this line, which needs to become a poem immediately: Here is man, which speaks before ...
m-pyre - Tue 3:04 p.m. - 2 clicks
This has been a tragic weekend for the Sheriffs Office and our community at large. Worse it has been tragic for 6 families. I can not discuss the details of the case on a personal blog. However, I do want to discuss the lessons we can learn from this. I have attended two of the three memorials for the deceased teens and witnessed hundreds of teens in pain. Unfortunately my daughter is one of them....
Sheriff Greg Solano Blog - Tue 12:56 a.m. - 3 clicks
Rep. Heinrich Eyes Tacos The finger-pointing is starting over why the Tacos may be shredded. We speak, of course, of the NM Air National Guard 150th Fighter Wing stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base, employing nearly 1,100 and pumping $25 million a year into the local economy. Yes, ABQ Dem US Rep. Martin Heinrich has managed to get through the US House legislation that would delay the di...
Joe Monahan - Tue 12:56 a.m. - 3 clicks
Here is a funny flow chart my son sent to me. It is really effective and pretty much catches the moment the Republicans keep repeating. Kind of like that movie 'Ground Hog Day." I got this warm and fuzzy note from Jeff Bingaman today. It really meant a lot to me. I had attended an event to honor him last week in DC. I know posting this is totally narcissistic but I am going to do it any...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Mon 6:29 p.m. - 3 clicks
This is an official state vehicle with a sworn New Mexico Police officer standing next to it in a nice northeast heights neighborhood in Albuquerque. It's parked in front of Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish's home. On Saturday, she was entitled to the extra protection because, as it turns out, she was acting-Governor of New Mexico. Like the Associated Press, who spot checked the whereabo...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Mon 4:37 p.m. - 3 clicks
On Friday afternoon in the House of Representatives our three New Mexico Congressmen all voted for the climate change bill that will, once the Senate works it over, change the way we produce energy in our country. It was especially gutsy for Congressman Harry Teague to vote for it but he did it. We had concluded our meetings in DC about 2 PM on Friday and I raced back to the Double Tree Hotel to...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Jun 29 - 8 clicks
Pearce (New Mexican) There's tentativeness in the Steve Pearce camp. The former southern NM Congressman previously said he would make a decision by June 30 on whether to seek his old southern congressional seat or launch a bid for Guv by 2010. Now he is delaying that decision until the July 20 to July 27 time frame . Insiders are saying the 61 year old Pearce is very likely to want to see mo...
Joe Monahan - Jun 29 - 2 clicks
Bloggers and News Media cover Sheriff Greg Solano's Ethics Proposals posted on his Website! New Mexico is a buzz with Sheriff's Solano's latest posts on his Solano for Lt. Gov. Website! Links and some quotes from the articles are posted below. Roundhouse Roundup- Some of his ideas like an independent ethics commission have been debated for years now and the idea of having a Secretary of Sta...
Greg Solano for Lt. Governor - Jun 29 - 3 clicks
You're on a bicycle for 6-8 hours a day, five or six days at a stretch. What do you think about? For me, it went like this (in order of frequency): Get song "Poker Face" by Lady GaGa out of my head. Unfortunately, this took much of my time, as the song was everywhere. Local radio station blaring during Youth Hostel breakfast: "Poker Face". Stop for sugar/butter-infused breakfast st...
Burque Babble - Jun 29 - 5 clicks
Church bells ringing at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi greeted hundreds of New Mexicans on Sunday night as they gathered at Cathedral Park in Santa Fe. They are grieving the loss of four teens killed early Sunday morning in a car crash on the Old Las Vegas Highway. "I'm devastated," said Adrian Martinez the brother of Julian Martinez who died at the scene. "My brother meant ...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Jun 29
Gertrude Zachary immigrated to New York after World War II. She's spent her life collecting antiques and designing jewelry. Now she's living in her dream home in downtown Albuquerque. We went inside the fortress on Friday, and spent two hours interviewing the busy businesswoman for the August issue of Albuquerque the Magazine. As you can tell by the photos, our personal tour w...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Jun 29 - 2 clicks
The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office says alcohol is suspected in the deadly wrong-way crash that killed four teens and sent another to the hospital with life-threatening injuries just after midnight on the Old Las Vegas Highway near mile marker 5. The impact has claimed four young lives. The investigation revealed 27-year-old Scott Owens was in the wrong lane of travel prior to the collision...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Jun 29 - 3 clicks
On my Road to the Lieutenant Governor Blog I have a copy of a News Release issued today which outlines my ethics proposals for the State of New Mexico. ...
Sheriff Greg Solano Blog - Jun 26 - 4 clicks
I visited the Special Olympics Golf Tournament this morning in Cochiti just to show my support. Corporal William Pacheco from my office helped to organize the effort on behalf of the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office. It was a lot of fun but really hot and humid today. I need to learn how to play golf, keep saying that but have not gotten out and done it. Golfers getting instructions before...
Greg Solano for Lt. Governor - Jun 26 - 2 clicks
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Greg Solano for Lt. Governor - Jun 26 - 4 clicks
from a News Release WASHINGTON, D.C. - EMILY's List, the nation's largest financial resource for women candidates, today announced its endorsement of Diane Denish for Governor of New Mexico. "Diane Denish has long been an effective and dedicated leader for the people of New Mexico," said Ellen R. Malcolm, president of EMILY's List. "As New Mexico's first woman Lt. Governor, Denish has ma...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Jun 26 - 2 clicks
I have been in the nation's capitol for a few days attending meetings. I was also fortunate to participate in a ceremony that the Wilderness Society put on in honor of Senator Jeff Bingaman. He was given the Society's hightest honor, the Ansel Adams Award, for his work on passing the Omnibus Public Lands act earlier this year. This act, which protect millions of acres of western landscapes, sim...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Jun 26 - 4 clicks
Chavez, Berry & Romero One good week does not make a campaign, but after a six month run in which incumbent ABQ Mayor Marty Chavez had not had much more than a glove laid on him, the camps of mayoral challengers Richard Romero and RJ Berry finally hit pay dirt. Not that it was anything that they or Chavez had done. The Denny's murder that soon morphed into a debate over illegal im...
Joe Monahan - Jun 26 - 2 clicks
I always say "I will show up to the opening of an envelope". Its a way of saying that when campaigning you need to show up to any group meetings you can get to. Anytime you can meet with a group its a good thing. The big plus is when you meet with a group of great, intelligent people who are blazing new trails in New Mexico. Ashley Drake Gephart organized the meeting which was the first mo...
Greg Solano for Lt. Governor - Jun 26 - 6 clicks
While police in Albuquerque try to find a third suspect in Saturday’s deadly MS 13 gang robbery at Denny’s, we are learning the leader of the Los Angeles based gang has been busted. 37-year-old Alex Sanchez was rounded up in a gang crackdown in the Southland on Wednesday. Sanchez, ironically has been hiding in plain site of authorities for years. He founded the anti-gang program Homies Unido...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Jun 25 - 4 clicks
