It looks like Bill Richardson will be cleared of any wrong doing in the pay to play scandal: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former high-ranking members of his administration won’t be criminally charged in a yearlong federal investigation into pay-to-play allegations involving one of the Democratic governor’s large political donors, someone familiar with the […]
Florida: Obama 52 percent/McCain 44 percent Georgia: Obama 47 percent/McCain 51 percent Indiana: Obama 52 percent/McCain 48 percent Iowa: Obama 58 percent/McCain 42 percent Michigan: Obama 60 percent/McCain 39 percent Minnesota: Obama 60 percent/McCain 39 percent Missouri: Obama 52 percent/McCain 48 percent Nevada: Obama 55 percent/McCain 45 percent New Hampshire: Obama 57 percent/McCain 43 percent […]
That’s what a lot of schools are considering now: Facing a crippling increase in fuel costs, some rural U.S. schools are mulling a solution born of the ’70s oil crisis: a four-day week. Cutting out one day of school has been the key to preserving educational programs and staff in parts of Kentucky, New Mexico […]
Just to let everyone know that New Mexico is still counting, though it is looking more like it will go to Clinton. Here’s the tracker for those wondering: [election 29]
Counting is supposed to continue today at 11:00am est. Here is the tracker for that state so we can keep an eye on it. [election 29]
And the latest asshole leaving Congress – Pete Domenici: Veteran Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008, according to several informed sources, a decision that further complicates an already difficult playing field for Republicans next November. Domenici has struggled with health problems over the […]
Old Pete must be getting worried: Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) has hired a top defense attorney to handle the pending ethics investigation into allegations that he pressured a federal prosecutor to bring indictments against New Mexico Democrats on the eve of the 2006 elections. Lee Blalack, who recently represented former congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham […]
I haven’t posted on the firing of the federal prosecutors lately, but there has been some real interesting developments in the case. Yesterday, we received this news: The controversy flared up early Wednesday afternoon after David Iglesias, the departing U.S. attorney from New Mexico, told McClatchy Newspapers that he believes he was forced out because […]
The New York Times has a great write up about YearlyKos today: If any more proof were needed of the rising influence of bloggers — at least for the Democratic Party — it could be found here on Friday on the Las Vegas Strip, where the old and new worlds of American politics engaged in […]
As people are being rescued, the questions are pouring into the catastrophic breakdown in our government’s infrastructure to handle such a disaster as we have seen unfold this week. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state’s National Guard on Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco […]