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Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh has started a political action committee aimed at “building citizen awareness and support for the principles the American republic is based on.” Continue Reading
The upcoming November elections are just the beginning of a new era in American politics where more young people, women and Hispanics will begin to make a big leadership impact within the Republican Party both locally and nationally. Continue Reading
The candidates for New Mexico’s 2nd and 3rd congressional district seats have agreed to two televised debates in the coming weeks, while in the 1st District both candidates have agreed to one televised debate, but the Democrat, Martin Heinrich, has rejected the second. Continue Reading
Rove’s bluster, which is one part misrepresentation of the facts, and one part righteous indignation, is an intoxicating cocktail for a lot of people. Continue Reading
The final session of the Domenici Public Policy Conference at times felt like a contentious panel discussion on a cable news channel as Karl Rove and Joe Lockhart debated national politics. They agreed on at least one thing: Voters are angry and are going to send a lot of elected Democrats home on Nov. 2. Continue Reading
Reducing the federal government’s massive debt is the most important issue of the day and should be approached like fighting a war, former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici said Wednesday. Continue Reading
I rushed home from the gym last evening (and probably, no surely, cut a few cars off along the way) to catch what I have loved since the Berlin Wall came down. What is that? A good Presidential address – yep, I’m a sucker. A few comments. Continue Reading
Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate Steve Pearce has an answer to his debate challenge: Democrat Harry Teague won’t agree to 10 – or 18 – town-hall style debates across the district, but he will agree to two TV debates and is proposing his own series of radio debates on specific issues. Continue Reading
New polls of the governor’s race and the 1st and 2nd congressional district contests suggest that the mood in New Mexico isn’t as bad for Democrats as many, including me, previously thought. The bottom line: All three races are still up in the air. Continue Reading
The warming within the GOP ranks – and, moreover, across the American heartland – to gay marriage is just as much commonsensical as it is generational. Seeing that marriages come and go so whimsically here in America– why should the male-female scenario have a lock on what is defined as marriage? Continue Reading
Controversy has swirled around two TV ads from Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund attacking Republican congressional candidate Steve Pearce, with Pearce and others calling the ads false and misleading and Defenders standing by the accuracy of its ads. I’ve been looking into the situation and found that the truth is somewhere in between. Continue Reading
To mark the formal end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, President Barack Obama will travel to El Paso on Tuesday to meet with soldiers at Fort Bliss. Continue Reading
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez supports the creation of an independent redistricting commission to take the politics out of redrawing the state’s political boundaries, while Democrat Diane Denish is open to considering the creation of an independent committee that would advise lawmakers and the governor. Continue Reading
The last U.S. Combat Brigade marched out of Iraq yesterday, symbolizing just that – the end of the combat component of Operation Iraqi Freedom. A heartfelt and sincere thank you to all of the troops and civilians, both standing and fallen, who served so courageously over the last seven years in Iraq. Continue Reading
With U.S. Rep. Harry Teague not directly answering Steve Pearce’s challenge to 10 “town-hall style” debates across the district, and instead accusing him of ignoring some counties, Pearce has upped his challenge to 18 debates – one in each county in the 2nd Congressional District. Continue Reading