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Totalitarian rule at the Roundhouse: Jabs, masks required for the public

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In a move to further keep the public away from the Roundhouse during the Special Session of the Legislature rumored for December 6, “proof of full vaccination will be required for any member of the public to enter the Capitol building in Santa Fe during the upcoming special session and regular session,” according to KOB 4.  The reconvening of the Legislature is meant for redistricting, which is done every ten years following the Census.

Despite scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham claiming “fully vaccinated” is “three shots” — two regular shots and a booster — the Piñon Post has learned from the Legislative Council Service (LCS) that they are going by CDC guidelines. CDC guidelines define“fully vaccinated” as two weeks following the second Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 shot. It will not require a COVID booster shot.

Raúl Burciaga, director of the New Mexico Legislative Council Service said, “Given the high number of COVID-19 cases across the state and the strain this continues to put on state resources, it is incumbent on us to protect everyone in the Capitol complex while conducting the state’s business,” He added, “I believe the measures being taken for the special and regular sessions will allow for the work to get done while greatly minimizing the risk for COVID spread.”

The new rules according to KOB:

  • The Roundhouse will remain open to members of the public for the special and regular sessions.
  • Proof of full vaccination will be required for any member of the public to enter the Capitol.
  • The Rotunda will not be used for displays, booths, presentations, special days, etc.
  • Pages will not be used by the House or Senate. 
  • No tours will be conducted or allowed in the Capitol. 
  • Masks will continue to be required throughout the Capitol Complex. 

As well as the extreme “COVID” mandates at the Roundhouse, leftist legislators rammed through a gun ban on most firearms at the Capitol, which can be read more about here.

According to the LCS, the special session will be held both in-person and virtually.

Do not applaud MLG throwing crumbs to the peasantry

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Scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Michelle Lujan Grisham believes she is so generous, so magnanimous, and oh so kind to us peasants who live under her rule. 

After raiding the permanent fund for her extremist socialist policies, crippling the oil and gas industry at the knees with the passage of her “Green New Deal,” shuttering 40% of New Mexico small businesses with her pandemic orders, forcing New Mexicans to stand in breadlines over the holidays last year, and the constant abuse she has delved out to New Mexicans from Española to Hobbs, now she is ready to throw us some crumbs.

Crumbs that come in the form of one of the most insignificant, insulting “tax cuts” that would make Marie Antoinette faint. 

Michelle Lujan Grisham wants to give us New Mexicans a whole 0.25% decrease in gross receipts tax. That means our already mammoth 5.125% tax rate would fall to 4.875% if passed by the Legislature.

A vote against this bill is cheap and easy political fodder to claim Republicans who oppose it “voted against tax cuts,” even though the Lujan Grisham regime has raised taxes far above 0.25% with her policies. Have you checked your gas bill recently? Yeah, it’s bad.

And it being an election year, Lujan Grisham thinks she can steal another term as governor by throwing crumbs at you and me. Pardon my French, but as the old saying goes, “don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.” 

MLG must think we are all a bunch of idiots who will simply ignore her payments of $150,000 to an ex-staffer who claims she groped his crotch. She thinks these crumbs will make us forget she munched on $200/lb Wagyu beef steaks, whiskey, and fine wine while New Mexicans waited in bone-chilling temperatures outside the local Walmart to get bread and milk. 

Lujan Grisham thinks New Mexicans will simply forget her belittling of citizens over supposed lack of mask-wearing, her mocking of people living in Deming, her displacement of elderly folks living in nursing homes during the pandemic, her mishandling of $250 million in federal funds that suddenly went “missing” from the Department of Workforce Solutions, and the countless scandals Lujan Grisham has racked up.

The Governor’s insulting supposed “tax cut” she wants to throw at us New Mexicans as some idiotic form of “charity” shows she truly thinks we are some of the dumbest, easily manipulatable people on Earth. If she really wanted to boost economic development, maybe she shouldn’t displace oil workers with her evil policies, such as those who live in the Navajo Nation and in southern New Mexico in the oil patch.

If MLG was truly serious about helping hurting families in New Mexico, DO AWAY WITH THE GROSS RECEIPTS TAX ALTOGETHER! 

At least for me, I refuse to forget MLG’s years of abuse, and I will be doing everything I can, from my local neighborhood meeting to the voting booth, to kick her to the curb, whether she wants to throw crumbs at me or not. What about you?

Republican jumps into 2022 BernCo sheriff race

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On Monday, Republican Joshua James Ryan Lawrence posted that he had announced over the weekend that he will be running for sheriff in Bernalillo County in 2022.

“As a Constitutionally Bonded Sheriff, I will be Constitutionally putting the Constitutional authority back in the hands of ‘We The People’,” he declared.

“Under my supervision, Bernalillo County will have a forensic audit of our votes, we will be auditing the financial books, and will be cleaning house of all unnecessary spending in the BCSO. There will be no more corruption in Bernalillo County so long as the people put me Constitutionally in charge.”

From Joshua James’ announcement:

From the time I take my constitutional oath, and then bond that oath per the constitution of New Mexico Article 22 Section 19, we will have a 30-day countdown from the time every elected candidate takes their Oath of Office, any candidate that fails to bond their oath, they will be forfeiting their elected office, and the Bernalillo Sheriff’s department will be escorting those people out of that office, and we will hold a protected special election to Constitutionally fill those seats. Also, we will have paper [ballots], and no DOMINION cheating machines.

All Vets/LEOS will be constitutionally guaranteed a job with the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s department per the Constitution, and I highly suggest all constitutional Americans here in Bernalillo County come get vetted and deputized as a Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputy in order to protect your neighborhoods. All deputies/police will be designated to the neighborhoods/vicinity where they live. It’s vital LEOS know their neighbors, fore they are the jury of your peers.

Sheriff is also the head officer of the Courts, so no more games.

ALL Covid mandates and restrictions will be eliminated completely. There will be no more violations of our Bill of Rights, and we will only Enforce The Constitution.

I will work with all Bonded Sheriff’s in the State to make Constitutional corrections collectively.

Note to APD, the Mayor will no longer be your Police Chief, fore your authority comes from the County Sheriff, and we will hire a Constitutionally Bonded Police/Patrol Chief. We will make the Constitution precedent again. May God bless us all through this journey, we will bring God back to New Mexico, and our Local Government.

Lawrence, who goes just by“Joshua James,” has long been an advocate for Constitutional rights and has shown up at many pro-freedom rallies across New Mexico, including at the Roundhouse against the Governor’s Green New Deal, in Alamogordo for a“33 Counties” rally, among other places. With his conservative credentials, he will be a frontrunner in the Republican primary.

The announcement comes as Bernalillo County Sheriff Manny Gonzales failed in his run for mayor against socialist Mayor Tim Keller. His seat appears to be open unless Gonzales once again seeks the Democrat nomination for the seat.

NM Senate bully targets another senator in apparent vindictive rage

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Over the weekend, far-left Sen. Jacob Candelaria (D-Bernalillo), who has not always towed the party line and gone along with the Senate Democrats’ wishes, is being targeted by the Senate bully, Pro-Tem Mimi Stewart (D-Bernalillo), according to his tweets.

Candelaria wrote, “Have been informed that Sen Mimi  Stewart will remove me from Senate Finance Committee, on account of my opposition to Gov control over federal ARPA funds.” 

In a subsequent tweet, he wrote, “This move will require full senate approval before final, let’s see if Mimi can pull it off. One things [sic] for sure though—Mimi Stewart is not morally or ethically fit to lead the Senate. Our legislature needs better and actual leaders.”

According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, “But Senate President Pro Tem Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, says that’s not true. She said if she removes Jacob Candelaria, who also represents Albuquerque, from that position, it will be because he has pulled away from his party and no longer caucuses with other members.”

“It’s no big surprise to me that this is coming on the heels of the decision of the Supreme Court on Wednesday,” Candelaria said. “This in no way has dampened my spirits. If leadership wants to act in this sort of retaliatory fashion, that’s their decision, just as it will be the Senate’s decision as to whether it will go along with this childish behavior.”

“He’s completely wrong. What he did this week [before the Supreme Court] has nothing to do with what I might have to do,” Stewart countered. While she said it is “possible” she may move to remove him from that committee, “it will have nothing to do with his great performance in front of the Supreme Court.”

Stewart has long bullied other members she disagrees with, including many in her own party. She bullied Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto (D-Bernalillo) in committee hearings, then subsequently refused to answer Ivey-Soto’s questions on the Senate floor on a bill she sponsored. Because she refused to answer, she claimed Ivey-Soto was being “sexist.”

In a previous committee hearing, Ivey-Soto claimed “leadership” (meaning Stewart) told him he could no longer debate on House bills, so he left the meeting and claimed he would not hear House bills in his Senate Rules Committee for the foreseeable future. This came after Stewart accused Ivey-Soto of not emailing her the proper bill, which he countered with a time and date the bill was sent to her email.

In committee hearings, Stewart bashed the public who had concerns over her extremist bill that would add on at least 20 a cent per gallon of gas tax that would harm poor New Mexicans the most.

“Two cents a year — That is nothing,” she said, claiming, “I am not concerned about that because I do believe this is kind of fear-mongering…. I want to answer honestly because that’s how I feel about it.”  

Stewart clapped back at concerns with her bill, “I don’t have concerns. I’m certainly proud that you all are concerned about low income. I don’t think it’s going to impact us,” she said, adding, “We’ve got two years to phase this in. We’re going to do it right.”

Stewart’s spat with Candelaria appears to be her latest move in her nasty tirades against other members of the Legislature, both Republican and Democrat.

ACLU threatens Estancia with lawsuit over ‘legally armed’ town meetings

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Following the assault at the New Mexico Capitol against the Second Amendment, where nearly all firearms are banned from the premises, the town of Estancia in Torrance County is fighting back by holding town meetings where recipients are required to be “legally armed.”

“‘Legally armed’ is everything from showing up with the knowledge, willing to fight. The pen is mightier than the sword – to actually carrying, open-armed. Or, concealed carry,” Estancia Mayor Nathan Dial explained.

However, the far-left dark money group the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has blackmailed Dial and the Town of Estancia with a hostage letter “demanding they rescind a town rule that requires individuals to be armed in order to attend a council meeting or conduct business in a town building.”

The fringe group claimed, “The rule will create a chilling effect on the exercise of their fundamental rights under the First Amendment. The ACLU-NM is prepared to intervene if they do not rescind it.”

However, the rule does not require anyone to physically carry a firearm into the town meeting. But the ACLU appears to have misinterpreted the rule, as it has done in other municipalities to strong-arm local officials.

“We are a Second Amendment city within a Second Amendment county,” Dial said.

“It’s not designed for someone to have to have a firearm. It’s designed to tell the state that, ‘No, what you did unconstitutionally at the state level will not come down in the municipality of Estancia,’” Dial added, according to KRQE 13.

Previously, the ACLU has threatened municipalities such as the Alamogordo Public School (APS) Board of Education with a lawsuit over a proposed piece of legislation to ban transgenders from school sports. The APS Board, which is run by a majority of leftists, caved to the ACLU and the bill was taken off the agenda. 

NM Supreme Court pauses citizen grand juries against MLG’s malfeasance

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According to reports, the New Mexico Supreme Court has approved scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s request for a temporary stay of at least three attempts to convene citizen-led grand juries to investigate the Governor’s botched handling of the pandemic.

The petitions filed in Eddy, Lea, and Chaves counties against Lujan Grisham and her tyrannical rule specifically target the Governor’s extreme jab coercion and mask mandates, among other measures that have led to economic destruction. 

New Mexico is one of the few states that allows citizens to petition for a grand jury with a certain threshold of the voting public. This is traditionally a tool used by prosecutors to go after criminal wrongdoing — in this case, the Lujan Grisham regime’s abuses of power during the pandemic.

“You would think at some point in time the people could be heard,” Sen. David Gallegos (R-Eunice) said. Gallegos is one of the signers on the petitions and has been advocating for them against Lujan Grisham for her “malfeasance” in office regarding the pandemic.

“Though controversial to some, the governor’s pandemic measures have been consistently upheld by the courts – including this court,” claimed Holly Agajanian, the Governor’s general counsel.

“I’d like to know why they didn’t let the process work,” Gallegos said, referring to the court.

A response letter submitted by Larry Marker, one of the filers on the petition, wrote in response, “​​The failure of the Governor and the Department of Health to adhere to the mandatory procedures for quarantine when issuing lockdown orders and limiting access to certain facilities is by law nothing short of false imprisonment and possibly abduction.”

Another passage of the response letter reads, “30-Counsel for Petitioner has failed to show the Governor or her administration would suffer irreparable harm or any specifics to [the] type of injury suffered by her with the Court acting on a constitutionally authorized mandatory action of convening a Grand Jury inquiry initiated by the Citizens.”

“The Citizens Grand Jury has been established as the Citizens checks and balances to [ensure] one branch of the Government does not have absolute authority. Petitioner has exercised her constitutionally authorized authority in a manner that has centralized absolute power with her and within the executive branch of the NM government. Through political acquiescence, lack of oversight, impasse or cowardice of the Judiciary and Legislature the instant controversy has evaded traditional means of remedy or correction.” 

Other motions filed by Lujan Grisham’s administration have attempted to suppress evidence produced by the grand juries, which is characterized by Marker as a“sneaky lawyer trick.”

According to the Journal, “In its Tuesday order preventing the citizen grand jury petitions from moving forward, the Supreme Court ordered that the grand jury proponents file responses in the case by Dec. 6.”

Fernandez, Stansbury vote for Biden’s extremist $1.9 trillion spending bill

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Like clockwork, on Friday, the far-left Democrats in New Mexico’s U.S. House delegation, Reps. Teresa Leger de Fernandez (D-NM-03) and Melanie Stansbury (D-NM-01) voted with the radical Democrats for Joe Biden’s extremist spending bill, erroneously dubbed the “Build Back Better Act.”

The far-left bill, which is estimated to cost around $1.9 trillion, included $500 billion for so-called “climate change” initiatives, which are largely spent through “clean energy tax credits” to heavily subsidize failing “alternative” energy sources like wind and solar.

The bill also includes “[u]niversal preschool for all 3- and 4-year olds” and “4 weeks of federal paid parental, sick or caregiver leave,” according to CNBC among other fringe spending proposals that will cost future Americans trillions in debt.

Following the bill’s passage, far-left Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who voted for the Senate version of the bill, claimed, “With the support of Americans across this country, this historic legislation will make a difference in the lives of every community across America.” 

Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM-02), who did not vote for Biden’s boondoggle, wrote, “Build Back Broke will go down in history as more disastrous than ‘Too Big to Fail’ bailouts, Obamacare, and the 2016 Ghostbusters movie combined.”

Stansbury claimed on Twitter, “It’s hard to overstate how historic the BBB is for New Mexico. It will help address the climate crisis & touch every aspect of our lives from childcare to elder care, cut taxes for families, and reduce the costs of childcare, home care, education, healthcare, Rx drugs, & housing.” 

The fringe spending package, which heavily targets leftist industries, may backfire on the Democrats if it reaches final passage, just adding another feather in Republicans’ caps come election time. Democrats have already suffered electoral losses at the ballot box in 2021 and those losses are predicted to extend to 2022 and beyond.

MLG claims ‘fully vaccinated’ means ‘three vaccines’

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Scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is now moving the goalposts yet again, this time fear-mongering New Mexicans not only into getting the COVID-19 vaccine but claiming those who don’t have a third “booster” are not “fully vaccinated.”

Lujan Grisham said on Wednesday, “We are analyzing what we can do to create those incentives – and potentially mandates – for making sure that people are fully vaccinated, which means three vaccines.”

According to Just The News, “Grisham has blamed the unvaccinated for the ongoing pandemic but recently acknowledged that vaccinated people can also contract and spread the virus and that those who become infected have only mild symptoms that don’t require hospitalization.”

Throughout the pandemic, Lujan Grisham has belittled and mocked New Mexicans for not following her strict COVID-19 practices, despite her harmful lockdowns resulting in the 5th-highest virus infection rate in the nation. Her lockdowns have also killed at least 40% of New Mexico’s small businesses.

Despite these crises in New Mexico, Lujan Grisham spent an unknown fortune in taxpayer dollars to fly to Glasgow, Scotland for a “climate change” conspiracy theory summit and to Washington, D.C. to watch Joe Biden sign a $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill that only included a mere 15% of items going to infrastructure. 

Throughout the pandemic, Lujan Grisham has broken her lockdown orders to buy lavish jewelry and she spent thousands in taxpayer dollars on $200/lb Wagyu beef steaks, fine wine, and liquor. This all came as New Mexicans were forced to stand in bread lines during the holidays due to her strict 75-person capacity limit in grocery stores.

Students, staff holding Thursday protest against NMSU’s jab mandate

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On Thursday, the New Mexico Freedoms Alliance (NMFA) is holding a protest to New Mexico State University’s (NMSU) jab mandate on-campus, which is forces all students and staff to get the jab by December 8. The Thursday protest comes after NMSU Students and Staff Against the Mandate has written an Open Letter to the NMSU Administration that asks the University to reconsider the enforcement of the mandate.

“The Administration of NMSU is actively disrupting the educational process by means of threats and intimidation to staff, faculty, and students with the enforcement of this health mandate. Furthermore, NMSU Administration is using intimidation and discrimination to coerce employees and students to accept an experimental treatment which has not undergone long-term safety testing and for which the clinical trials are ongoing until 2023.”

“If we are going to be forced to choose between an experimental vaccine and our jobs and/or education, we demand that our concerns be heard.

“NMSU has an ethical obligation to acknowledge the fact that:

  1. Use of these vaccines does not stop people from contracting the COVID-19 Virus.
  2. Use of these vaccines does not prevent the fully vaccinated from spreading the COVID-19 Virus.
  3. Many in our NMSU community who oppose this mandate have experienced previous COVID-19 infection, and now carry robust natural immunity which provides the same, if not more powerful, protection against COVID-19 than a vaccination would.
  4. The use of these emergency vaccinations has led to a great number of adverse reactions. Where there is a risk, there must be a choice.
    “Is NMSU prepared to take full financial responsibility for any adverse reactions experienced by staff, faculty, and students that may potentially come from the enforcement of this mandate?

“In addition, we want it to be clear that while many of us have made an informed choice not to receive the vaccine, there are also many among our ranks who have individually chosen to receive the vaccine but firmly stand against this mandate. A health directive or mandate is not law, and should not be treated as such. We, the vaxxed and unvaxxed, are in agreement that the enforcement of this mandate is unlawful and violates our civil liberties.

“In closing, we come together from all fields and positions within the NMSU family asking you to reconsider your enforcement of this mandate in favor of personal freedom and bodily autonomy. At the very least, we are asking for reasonable accommodations that do not further strip us of our freedoms and dignity. Please don’t make us choose between an education or a job we love and our personal health and bodily autonomy.”

Details about the Thursday protest:

What: Demonstration Against NMSU Vaccine Mandate
When: Thursday November 18th from 11am-1pm
Where: Sun Dial on the NMSU Horseshoe, Main Campus

NM Supreme Court sides with legislators, dealing a crippling blow to MLG

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According to multiple reports from the New Mexico Supreme Court, the Court has ruled against scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Michelle Lujan Grisham and in favor of two legislators who sued the Governor over her unilateral use of federal funds during the pandemic.

Lujan Grisham spent $1.7 billion in federal funds without legislative approval, which sparked the lawsuit from Sens. Greg Baca (R-Valencia) and Jacob Candelaria (D-Bernalillo).

According to the Albuquerque Journal, “The ruling, which was announced after the state’s highest court heard arguments from attorneys and deliberated for roughly one hour, clears the way for the Legislature to appropriate nearly $1.1 billion in allocated money received under the American Relief Plan Act in the coming months— though the governor would still have the ability to fully or partially veto any legislative spending plan.”

Even Lujan Grisham-appointed justices, such as Justice David Thomson, agreed with the two senators over the Governor, saying it is clear in the Constitution what role the legislature has regarding appropriation of funds. “I learned that in second grade — they control the purse strings,” Thomson said.

“I’m excited to see the court side with the people and the Constitution,” Baca told reporters following the ruling.

In a statement, Baca wrote, “In one of the most significant rulings in decades, the New Mexico Supreme Court today preserved the appropriating authority of the legislature and affirmed the separation and balance of powers enshrined in our Constitution. As legislators, we are the representative body of government and we are accountable to our constituents for the spending of their tax dollars. The Governor’s attempts to assume unilateral control of our state by bucking the authority of her office and the state constitution are an egregious power grab, and we are thankful that the high court has ruled in favor of the people.”

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