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EXCLUSIVE: SOS exposed for taking dark Soros money after claiming to ‘fight’ dark money

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Although Democrat Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver’s latest financial report was overshadowed, or downright ignored, by the mainstream news media, which opted to cover the fundraising in New Mexico’s tight governor’s race, the Piñon Post has exclusively uncovered dark money in the secretary of state race. 

On her donation pages, Toulouse Oliver constantly writes, “Maggie Toulouse Oliver serves the state of New Mexico as Secretary of State, where she is dedicated to fighting for clean and fair elections devoid of dark money and outside influence.”

She also writes on the official New Mexico Secretary of State website, “I’ll keep working to shine a light on dark money wherever possible.”

However, her latest campaign filing proves that her supposed “fight” against “dark money” is a big lie. In the fourth primary report she filed with her office on July 7th, the Secretary of State listed a $5,200 donation from “Open Democracy PAC.”

The organization is almost exclusively a front group that is funded by a dark money 501(c)(4) organization, “Sixteen Thirty Fund,” or sometimes written as “1630 Fund,” according to filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

According to POLITICO, “The Open Society Foundations, founded by liberal mega-donor George Soros, also lists nearly $17 million in 2020 grants to the Sixteen Thirty Fund on its website.” 

The dark money group is a member of a coalition of other leftist dark money organizations through “Run For Something,” which seeks to elect far-left Democrats who believe in election subversion to weaken election laws. 

“These organizations are engaged in what can charitably be called credibility laundering,” Honest Elections Executive Director Jason Snead warned. “They engage with bipartisan groups and promote ostensibly Republican allies. However, their funding and agenda are distinctly left-wing.”

An example of Sixteen Thirty Fund’s activism is its spending in the 2018 Midterms in Colorado. It dunked a hefty $3.92 million in dark money into the state to help elect far-left anti-election integrity Democrats, according to the Colorado Independent. 

Not only is Maggie Toulouse Oliver’s claim to fight “dark money” false, but she is one of the worst examples in the state of politicians actively taking dark money from left-wing elites from outside of the state. She ended up raising $44,964.71 in the fourth reporting period, with $20,487.70 in expenditures, leaving her with $148,289.29 cash-on-hand. She faces Republican Audrey Trujillo in the November General Election. 

‘Cringe’: MLG embarrasses New Mexicans at soccer game

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On Saturday, far-left Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham showed up at a New Mexico United soccer game, where she awkwardly danced and tried to get some noise out of the crowd by shaking her fist in the air.

The soccer franchise wrote on its Twitter account, “Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham… is in the house.”

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New Mexicans responded to the Governor’s embarrassing showing at the game.

“Nothing could be less cool,” said one commenter. 

“I’m literally suffering secondhand embarrassment for her. She will be out of a job come November,” one commenter wrote.

One New Mexican shared a meme reading “cringe.” 

“A group of absolute clowns,” another person wrote. 

Lujan Grisham faces off against Republican Mark Ronchetti and Libertarian Karen Bedonie in the November General Election.

MLG campaign makes its most desperate fundraising plea yet

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On Friday, far-left Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s campaign made its most desperate fundraising plea yet.

This time, Lujan Grisham shared a screenshot of a June 27 tweet from waning actress Bette Midler who posted an altered photo of the New Mexico sign, edited to add, “We’ve got Chile, Weed and Reproductive Rights.”

The screenshot included Lujan Grisham’s retweet, which added, “And we’re going to keep it that way.”

The sign references the extremist Democrat Governor’s legislation that legalized abortion up to birth, which she claims is “reproductive rights,” despite abortion ending the reproductive process and killing a child.

She also called a special session of the state Legislature to ram through a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana despite it being a federally illegal Schedule 1 substance.

The fundraising email read, “You heard the Governor, friend! Donate now to keep New Mexico the land of chile, weed, and reproductive rights.”

This could possibly be the laziest fundraising ploy yet from Lujan Grisham, but there are still four months until the November 8 election where she faces off against tough competition.

Campaign finance report: MLG takes at least $16K in dark money, spends big on TV

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On Thursday, Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s campaign filed its fourth primary report with the Secretary of State’s Office. The report shows she is trailing her Republican opponent, Mark Ronchetti, in fundraising by $452,973.37. She brought in $755,303.63 compared to Ronchetti’s $1,208,277.00. Republican-turned-Libertarian candidate Karen Bedonie reported $4,079.70 during the same filing period.

During the reporting period, she brought in donations from many of the pueblos and tribal economic councils, ringing up to around $78,100, with donations from the Pueblo of Zuni ($5,400), the Jicarilla Apache Nation ($5,000), the Laguna Development Corporation ($3,000), the Pueblo of Jemez ($5,000), the Pueblo of Isleta ($15,600), the Pueblo of Picuris ($10,400) the Pueblo of San Felipe ($2,500), the Pueblo of Sandia ($10,400), the Mescalero Apache Tribe ($10,400), and the Santa Clara Development Corp ($10,400).

Other donations included $1,000 from Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber, $500 from state Rep. Harry Garcia (D-Grants), $1,000 from state Sen. Antoinette Sedillo-Lopez (D-Albuquerque), $1,000 from state Sen. Liz Stefanics (D-Santa Fe), $10,400 from ConocoPhillips, $2,500 from “Black PAC,” $250 from Santa Fe City Manager John Blair, $1,000 from failed two-time Democrat candidate for state House Karen Whitlock, $10,400 from Lujan-Grisham appointed far-left Citizens Redistricting Commission member Lisa Curtis, and $10,400 from “PNM Responsible Citizens Group.”

Other contributions included $5,000 from the Verdes Foundation, which does medical marijuana, as well as marijuana company Nature’s NM Management LLC, which donated $5,000. Former U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s family dug deep, with the former senator donating $8,300, his wife, Anne, donating $8,300, their son, John, donating $9,800, and his wife, Marlene, donating $9,800. One contribution of $340 was attributed to a “Marilyn Monroe” purported to be living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

There were at least $16,400 in contributions that did not specify a donor, with $10,400 coming from an anonymous “political committee” on June 29, an anonymous $1,000 contribution on June 2, and $5,000 from an unnamed “political committee” on June 6, among others. Most of the Governor’s campaign contributions came from out-of-state people and entities. This is by definition “dark money.”

During the reporting period, Lujan Grisham received $939.88 in in-kind digital ad contributions from the abortion up to birth Planned Parenthood Votes New Mexico and $1,618.12 from the Democrat Party of New Mexico.

The Governor spent heavily on television advertising during this reporting period, with four separate transactions to the Washington, D.C.-based Buying Time LLC totaling up to $569,289.46.

She paid the Alexandria, Virginia-based Clarke & Sampson, Inc. $20,651.50 for insurance costs, $35,300.00 to the Washington, D.C.-based Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc. for polling, and a hefty catering expenditure to Santa Fe-based Honey Yohalem for $4,522.31. Failed Democrat State Auditor Candidate Zachary Quintero was also paid a salary of $3,026.01 on June 29.

Ronchetti’s campaign said it has received 95% of its contributions from in-state. The election will occur on November 8.

Big Texas abortion business moving practice to NM

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It was reported on Wednesday that another big Texas abortion business Whole Woman’s Health was moving the practice from Austin to somewhere on the New Mexico/Texas border to continue its practice of aborting children in the womb. According to Huffington Post, Whole Woman’s Health is the largest independent abortion provider in Texas.

This comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson that there is no federal constitutional right to an abortion and the abortion question now moves back to the states. 

The organization is notable for it being on the winning side of the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt U.S. Supreme Court case in 2016 limiting Texas’ limits on abortion. Now, the State of Texas is getting its last laugh by effectively booting Whole Woman’s Health out of its state due to its pro-life laws.

New Mexico, which has no restrictions on abortion whatsoever after the Democrat-run legislature struck down all protections for women, unborn babies, and medical professionals in 2021, is seeing more abortionists move their practices to the state, such as Jackson Women’s Health Organization which is relocating from pro-life Mississippi to Las Cruces.

“With the shuttering of our four Texas clinics, we do not have the financial reserves to open in New Mexico without community support,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, said in a statement, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

Miller further proves that these abortion facilities like Planned Parenthood and Whole Woman’s Health are not profitable without the ability to kill babies in the womb at their centers. For a long time, pro-abortion proponents have claimed these abortion mills provide “a whole range of women’s health care.” But without abortion, these supposed “health care” facilities are closing down in pro-life states because, as Miller notes, it is not “financially” sustainable.

Albuquerque’s Southwestern Women’s Options performs abortions up to birth, while there are a few other abortion facilities in Santa Teresa near the Texas border, while another Planned Parenthood location is set to open in the area.

TV station debunks MLG’s bogus campaign ad lying about ‘free’ college

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Recently, Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has faced constant scandal during her tenure as governor, released a campaign ad featuring a Portales woman named “Carla.” The woman, who is now a nurse, credits Lujan Grisham in the ad for helping her get her degree through the Governor’s “free college” Opportunity Scholarship program.

The problem is that the legislation was only enacted just days ago on July 1st, making it impossible for “Carla” to have been a beneficiary of the initiative.

“I promised my parents I’d become a nurse, but I couldn’t have done it without the Governors Opportunity Scholarship. Nursing school is completely free,” Carla Osborn said in the campaign ad:

KOAT 7 News debunked Osborn’s claims. “Target 7 dug deeper into the nurse Carla Osborn. According to the governor’s campaign she started nursing school in 2017 two years before the governor was sworn into office. Rodriguez said that Osborn received some of the opportunity scholarship money in her final semester. She graduated at the end of 2021,” the television station reported.

The station further proved that the facility Lujan Grisham was attempting to pass off as Portales was actually a hospital in Santa Rosa — a place Osborn does not work.

“The ad says Osborn is from Portales. It shows her driving to work at a hospital and sitting in the front of it chatting with the governor. Target 7 found that hospital is in Santa Rosa which would be about a two-hour commute from Portales. The governor’s campaign acknowledged Osborn doesn’t actually work there,” the report found.

This is just the latest attempt by Lujan Grisham’s campaign to skirt the truth in her campaign to dodge her record. 

After the exposé hit, Republican Governor’s Association’s Will Reinert wrote on Twitter, “Whoa — @GovMLG ‘s opening campaign ad is 1 MASSIVE lie, according to @koat7news. The woman began nursing school 2 years before @Michelle4NM became Gov. She doesn’t work at a hospital, like the one featured in the ad. The time she spent in school was not ‘completely free.’” 

Abortion exec who lost Supreme Court case now moving facility to NM

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Shannon Brewer whose abortion mill lost the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is moving her abortion business from Jackson, Mississippi to Las Cruces. Dobbs overturned the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) decisions, which legalized abortion on demand in the United States. It now sends the abortion question back to the individual states.

The Texas Tribune reports, “Brewer’s team picked Las Cruces, about 40 miles north of El Paso, because of its proximity to Texas and its lack of abortion care. They found an old dentist’s office in the city this spring and hope to have their new clinic open [in July].”

Brewer touted how the new abortion facility in Las Cruces, which used to be a dental office, has a parking lot in the rear, making it harder for pro-life sidewalk counselors to help pregnant mothers turn around and not go through with the baby-killing abortion.

“You have antis who were in these 20-some states that are fixing to close — what are they going to do?” she said. “This is all they know, and this is all they’ve been doing,” said Brewer to the Tribune.

New Mexico has long been the abortion capital of the Southwest and the late-term abortion capital of the country. But in 2021 when radical pro-abortion Democrat politicians did away with all protections for women, babies, and medical professionals, it left open the floodgates for unregulated abortion up to and after birth in the state.

Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who is up for reelection in November, signed the controversial bill after spending big bucks to knock off moderate pro-life Democrats from the state Senate chamber so she could ram through the unlimited abortion bill.

Just last week, Lujan Grisham signed an executive order shielding fugitive abortionists from extradition to other states where they have illegally performed abortions. More of this pro-abortion radicalism is expected in the upcoming 2023 Legislative Session, where Democrats are likely to propose more anti-life bills.

Maggie Toulouse Oliver bashes America, Founding Fathers on Fourth of July

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On Independence Day, far-left Democrat Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver bashed America’s Founding Fathers and America in general, claiming the holiday only secures freedom for a “select few.”

“But our struggle for freedom is more than a single historical event. We are still striving to ensure the promise of America is not reserved for a select few,” Toulouse Oliver wrote in an email.

She continued, “We have fought to expand the freedoms originally meant only for land-owning white men. Through years of hard work, women, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), and the LGBTQ+ community have won their rights and brought our nation closer to its goal of a more perfect union.”

Still, she believes the nation has not reached its “perfection.”

“But over the past few days, we saw many of the rights we have fought so hard for threatened and repealed. We have so far to go before we can fully live our values of liberty, equality, and justice. We simply cannot allow ourselves to go backwards.”

Toulouse Oliver is likely alluding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that repealed the archaic 1973 decision, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion on demand in the United States. The Dobbs v. Jackson case recently decided now lets the abortion question go back to the states. Apparently, Toulouse Oliver takes offense to the court saying there is no right to kill children in the womb on a federal level.

Despite bashing the United States and our Founding Fathers as “land-owning white men” who fought to secure our country, the Secretary of State still claims to be “so proud to be an American.”

“Today’s celebration is bittersweet, but our country has come so far since our founding, and I know we will again bend towards justice. These ideals are what make our country great, and they are what still make me so proud to be an American,” she wrote.

Lujan Grisham joins Biden to promote radical pro-abortion policies

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On Friday, Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham joined Joe Biden and other governors in support of abortion up-to-birth policies being pushed by both the Biden and Lujan Grisham regimes. The discussion comes after the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision struck down the archaic unconstitutional Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion on demand. The issue now goes back to the individual states.

The announcement for the event billed itself as an opportunity to “discuss efforts to protect access to [abortion].” The conference happened at a set in the basement of the White House, where Biden read off a teleprompter.

“We’re in a really important area here,” said Biden during the conference, calling the Roe v. Wade reversal “terrible” while bashing the Supreme Court as an “extremist court.” He also claimed pro-life governors are “extremists.”

“We are, in fact, that brick wall against that horrific Supreme Court decision,” said Lujan Grisham, referring to Democrat governors.

The Governor attacked the pro-life neighboring state of Texas as “draconian” for its life-affirming efforts.

She endorsed comments made by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), who suggested using Veterans Affairs hospitals and military bases to perform abortions on federal land. She even went one step further, endorsing using “Indian Health Services clinics” as an “effective vehicle” to perform abortions.

She said some sovereign Indian nations she has spoken to are “very supportive and interested” in the idea.

Lujan Grisham said she stands “ready to fight hard” to elect more pro-abortion Democrats to Congress so the pro-abortion left “can codify Roe v. Wade.”

Dem Party-affiliated attorneys attempt to get Trump’s NM attorneys disbarred

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On Thursday, it was reported that six Democrat attorneys in New Mexico are petitioning the state Supreme Court to disbar attorneys who worked on lawsuits for President Donald J. Trump following the 2020 General Election in New Mexico. Those lawyers are Albuquerque-based personal injury attorney and Texas-based attorney Michael Smith.

“While the lawsuit did not make any specific allegations of voting fraud or irregularities, it alleged Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver had overstepped her legal authority by authorizing use of the ballot drop boxes amid the coronavirus pandemic,” the Albuquerque Journal reported.

The 31-page petition demands the Court references GOP electors delivered to Congress in case the results skewed from Joe Biden winning the state to Trump.

The petition was filed by former state Democrat Party chairman John Wertheim asking the Supreme Court to appoint a special counsel to investigate and then publicly release the findings of the probe.

The petition was also signed by ex-Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez.

The New Mexico Supreme Court previously denied petition requests in February 2021 to investigate the attorneys involved in the Trump campaign lawsuit.

But Chávez, Wertheim, and the other attorneys claim new testimony regarding Mike Pence’s legal counsel Greg Jacob brought forth new details via Democrat U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s partisan January 6th Committee.

“In that memo, Jacob says Trump attorney John Eastman, a Santa Fe resident, proposed the vice president could delay reading the electoral certificates for fives states – including New Mexico – until legislators in those states could certify which of the competing slate of electors for each state was ‘true and correct’ in their claims of victory,” the Journal noted.

It was reported last week that Eastman’s phone was seized by federal agents while the attorney ate lunch in town. Eastman later decried these tactics by the FBI while appearing on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight.

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