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Re: The third N.M. House webcasting hero

dontlienow — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:26:05 -0000

Good for her and good for us! Thanks for the link to www.nmgov.tv it makes it easier for people to just click on a link then type in the URL sometimes that can get confusing for the more mature folks who want to be a part of transparency in government.

Re: The unlikely victory of Karen Giannini

pari — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:54:24 -0000

Hey, you raise some good points. I've never particularly liked Fox and haven't followed her career as closely as you obviously have. Thanks for the additional info.

You may be right about the straight Obama-Democrats as well.

The one thing that happened with this election is that it has made me follow politics in general much more consistently.

These next few years are going to be fascinating.

Re: The unlikely victory of Karen Giannini

dontlienow — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:53:04 -0000

Also, keep in mind that Justin Fox is peceived as being very liberal by conservative Republicans. Her vote for the domestic partnership act only sealed her fate with her own base. Her vote totals were lower because she could not get her own base to support her (resulting in apathy) and the people she appealed to would rather vote straight Obama. The state GOP party (not the county) supported her because she is not conservative and this didn't motivate her base to go out and vote. Between 10-15% of Republicans didn't even to bother to vote. So when you put all that together you have the perfect storm for change and Giannini just rode the wave on in. She has a chance to prove herself either as a "Republican viewed" typical liberal (pro choice, pro gay, anti-gun, anti-school choice (vouchers), big government, increase taxes) or represent her district and be a moderate and find common ground with her constituents. Justin Fox Young didn't do it and so she is out. Let's see what will happen with these next two years.

Re: The unlikely victory of Karen Giannini

dontlienow — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:40:26 -0000

Do you really think she (Giannini) could have won without the Obama tsunami affect? I don't think so. I think this story and the comments underestimate the influence of Obama's ground (door to door) workers that worked on behalf of all the Dems. Because of the anti-Bush sentiment this election saw Republicans about 15-20% crossover. The amount of straight party dem voters was extremely high. I think these were people who probably didn't want to be bothered with the local races, amendments or bond issues. The early and absentee vote was in some districts over 60% of the entire vote. The Republicans totally missed out on this but the Dems won the election before Nov 4th. So in two years it will be a totally different picture. If Obama doesn't deliver then there will be a backlash of disappointed, disgruntled and fickle voters who could swing either way.

Re: N.M. GOP files formal complaint against Dem group

dontlienow — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:41:56 -0000

You say that Mimi Stewart is the treasurer yet the DLCC website http://www.dlcc.org/about/board says she is the director for New Mexico (The board of directors). Which is it? Does treasurer mean more or less accountability for how the money is spent? What does a "single occurrence" out of 50 mailers mean? More like 10,000 out of 5,000,000 mailed items? I guess if someone kills only 1 out of 50 people they pass by it isn't so bad? Oh, that's too harsh. Maybe, only committing 1 crime a day out of 50 days? No, that's still too harsh. How about, no killings, no crimes and no violations of law? Hey, Mimi only got arrested once for DWI. She doesn't think that is bad either because she takes full responsibility. So a DWI here and violation of FEC there, here a violation, there a violation. Oh McDonald had a farm. But what kind of farm is it? Unfortunately, it is probably marijuana haha. Oh, that's not a joke because we legalized it here in NM for medical reasons. I guess McDonald was sick of smoking tobacco haha again. I just read in the ABQ Journal that she (Mimi) is concerned about "character". So what is character? I guess it depends on who is doing the finger pointing.