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Re: GOP picks up seats in state House

barbwire — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:17:24 -0000

Might help to report who was giving David Doyle money -- like BP and Exxon: http://bit.ly/dw1QJ9

Re: Martinez leads Denish by 10, ABQ Journal poll says

barbwire — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:32:26 -0000

Why is it that so many media people take the Journal at their word when they refuse to release Sanderoff's crosstabs or any info on weighting of demographics? Virtually every other polling outfit worth its salt does so. Why is it that media people don't find it unethical for the Journal not to mention that they hold a financial interest in Sanderoff's polling company? I can't imagine the press in any other state not questioning this cozy arrangement and the lack of documentation of the poll results and methodologies, especially when Sanderoff also provides the ONLY analysis of polling results in the paper and on TV and radio. Sanderoff also provides analysis on debate performance and other aspects of the campaigns which, to me at least, creates a conflict of interest. In other words, Sanderoff attempts to influence voter opinions via his analysis of races, then does the polling for an outfit that owns part of his company, while allowing the outfit to selectively release data and other info.

NMI says it is about investigative reporting but I wonder why no study or research has gone into how these operations are conducted.

Re: Denish wins most out-of-state dollars but trails Martinez in money

barbwire — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:23:18 -0000

Big difference: Denish doesn't get $450,000 in one fell swoop from one guy and his wife in Texas who are crooked real estate developers and who created and funded the awful Swiftboating of John Kerry. Martinez also got a ton of money from the RGA, to which Bob Perry gave millions this cycle. In other words more big donations from him were transferred to Martinez via the RGA. To make any kind of equivalence between union support and taking money from compromised and corrupt individuals like Perry and the Koch brothers is indeed a stretch, but not unexpected.

Re: RealClearPolitics - Martinez Pulling Away in New Mexico

barbwire — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:42:35 -0000

Slight problem with the charge and the "response ad." The woman, who is no longer with the guy, was all for his arrest. So, like every charge Martinez has so far made, it's wrong, inaccurate and dishonest.

Re: GOP poised to take the Secretary of State’s race

barbwire — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:17:49 -0000

Unfortunately, the "reporters" don't seem interested in vetting Duran. It's so much easier to print unsourced quotes from Espinoza and Duran's other supporters and pretend you're doing "journalism."

Re: GOP poised to take the Secretary of State’s race

barbwire — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:28:07 -0000

The Republican is "poised" to take this race? How so? It doesn't seem like your headline matches what is in this article. I do remember when reporters strived to be neutral but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore, even on NMI. Of course Duran has a chance, as Rs do in all the races. But to say she is "poised" to win is just so much malarkey.

Re: Harry Teague distances himself from Dems in first TV ad

barbwire — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:15:47 -0000

Maybe he's "distancing himself" from all parties and being himself. If you have doubts, maybe you should ask him. That's what reporters do, right?

Re: Few sparks fly at Congressional forum

barbwire — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:03:23 -0000

Yeah, banks are doing a great job of it, aren't they? How would you prme the economy? What is your solution, more tax breaks for the rich so the money trickles down? Comparing this program to Fannie and Freddie is inaccurate, to say the least. The ONLY reason it was blocked was to make sure Dems can't get anything done. The same tactic has been used repeatedly by the GOP in Congress. Do you think this is good?

Explain to me how you think Rep. Heinrich is agreeable to damaging Americans. To imply there are no important differences between these candidates shows ignorance on the issues to the nth degree.

Re: Few sparks fly at Congressional forum

barbwire — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:53:01 -0000

I wish someone had asked Barela why his Republican cronies insist on blocking the legislation that would help small businesses get loans. The Republicans in Congress are all for their own political gain even if it damages Americans. We have seen it over and over again. As far as Heinrich allegedly lacking "independence," Martin voted as his constituents who voted him in wanted him to vote. He made no secret of what he supports. In other words, he represented the District. Jon Barela is a farce. As far as I can tell he has no solutions other than more deregulation and more tax cuts -- which is what got us here in the first place. Barela is a bag full o'BS

Re: On same-sex marriage ruling, Obama risks alienating his base

barbwire — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:06:00 -0000

No I mean the same rights all citizens get. Civil law is not church law and vice versa. Special rights are actually what the founders and their contemporaries got since only white, male property owners could vote back then. We've been perfecting our democracy ever since and I'm sure that will continue regardless. It's what America is.

Re: On same-sex marriage ruling, Obama risks alienating his base

barbwire — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:02:37 -0000

Civil rights by opinion polling and referenda. How American!

Re: Rio Grande Foundation hires reporter to cover the Roundhouse

barbwire — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:56:31 -0000

A sports anchor?

Re: Slideshow of President Bill Clinton’s visit to ABQ

barbwire — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:49:39 -0000

Gwyneth: If you click through to the photo album or to the larger version of the slideshow on Flickr, you'll see the captions. Every dang one of them entered in as I just about fell asleep at the keyboard last night!

Re: Domestic partnership bill on life support

barbwire — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:28:07 -0000

You forgot to mention that it was Allen Sanchez and the NM Conference of Bishops who suggested that the 800+ bill be written that way to ensure that no aspect of marriage was included. He and his lying (sinning) Bishops then withdrew their support after it took months to be drafted.

I don't care that much that George Munoz voted for sending it to SFC. He's never supported DP. Sen. Eichenberg, however, voted for DP last year, and many LGBT folks & our supporters worked to get him elected because he said he would support DP. He lied. Amazing all the lying and double dealing going on in the name of morality, isn't it?

Re: Video: Supporters and opponents speak out on domestic partnership

barbwire — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:44:07 -0000

I wish the bible thumpers would check out the bible because if god ordained anything, it was polygamy and harems

Re: Defining marriage

barbwire — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:01:15 -0000

The most powerful and logical set of argument in favor of same-sex marraige I've encountered comes from arch-conservative constitutional lawyer Ted Olson. You may recall that Olson represented George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore. He is currently representing clients who are challenging the constitutionality of Prop 8 before the California Supreme Court.

I encourage everyone on both sides of this issue to read Olson's recent piece in Newsweek entitled The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage: http://www.newsweek.com/id/... It's a bit long but I urge you to print it out and read the entire piece when you have the time.

Re: Get ready for challengers, union tells state lawmakers

barbwire — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:40 -0000

It's not just the teacher's union, either. It's rank and file Dems who will be watching.

Re: N.M. Legislative leaders lukewarm on health care opt-out

barbwire — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:50:54 -0000

That's one way to look at it. I have a more positive view. First of all many healthy young people who are currently uninsured are expected to choose the public option so that will help immensely. Another thing to remember is that when Social Security was first passed, it hardly covered anyone. You have to start somewhere. Legislation is negotiation, not purity.

Re: N.M. Legislative leaders lukewarm on health care opt-out

barbwire — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:48:48 -0000

The goal is just to get a bill out of the Senate, the more conservative chamber. Then it will be combined with the House bill via a conference committee. The House bill will have a stronger public option that will not be "opt out." Joe Lieberman will not be on the conference committee. Once the bill is crafted by the conference committee, it will have to be approved by both chambers, but the pressure will be incredibly intense to pass it at that time and any Dem who fails to vote for it will have hell to pay within their chamber and at election time.

Re: N.M. Legislative leaders lukewarm on health care opt-out

barbwire — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:13:30 -0000

Technically, states would not be opting in. All states would be a part of the public option plan unless there was action in the state to get out of the plan.

Re: State faces up to $1 billion shortfall in January

barbwire — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:39:53 -0000

I guess we could pray for the price of oil and gas to go up.

Re: Lawmakers go after Richardson’s political appointees

barbwire — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:04:17 -0000

Really? Every single one of them? You, like many others, paint with a very broad brush.

Re: Lawmakers go after Richardson’s political appointees

barbwire — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:56:52 -0000

While I'm not a big fan of some exempt appointments, I personally think we're talking about peanuts in the scheme of things here. The bottom line is that New Mexico and the federal government have to start taxing wealthy individuals, raising capital gains taxes and making corporations pay their fair share. Our economy got here because we've been following the idiotic trickle down myth, and the wealthy elite were wily enough to convince many that "taxes" are evil. What's evil is our anti-progressive tax code that lets way too many at the top of the heap completely off the hook.

The conservative noise machine has been bragging how the best way to bring down the government would be to starve it to death. It's been done, nationwide. The only thing that's kept it afloat this long is bubble investments. Now it's time to pay the piper and get those who have thrived in this greedy, thievish environment to pay their fair share.

Re: New state Senate proposal cuts K-12 education by $150 million

barbwire — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:06:38 -0000

No matter what they do, they'll have to "address it again" in 2010 because Richardson is refusing to allow lawmakers to fix the unfair and outrageously lax tax code as it deals with our wealthiest residents and inter-state corporations. The only people who seem to want these cuts are Republicans -- who can't accept that citizens need to pay their fair share in taxes -- and fake Dems like Jennings and Smith. Recent polling shows a large majority of New Mexicans don't want the cuts being proposed, but then what do they matter when you've got big dollar campaign donors hounding you or ideological pureness tests to meet?

Re: ABQ City Councilor Harris responds to NMI on “atheist” attack on challenger

barbwire — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:47:42 -0000

A humanist who believes in evolution in any office in America? I guess someone like Harris believes those are points against a candidate. I guess he doesn't understand the constitution or America.