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Teachers unions pleased as MLG punishes educators with new mandates

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On Tuesday, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced new harsh mandates, including mask mandates indoors for all people regardless of vaccination status, forced vaccination for medical workers, and requiring educators to show proof of a negative virus test. She claimed these were due to a new strain of the virus called the“Delta variant.”

According to the Governor’s press release, “The state also issued a requirement that all workers at private, public and charter schools in New Mexico either be vaccinated against COVID-19 or otherwise submit to COVID-19 testing on a weekly basis. This policy aligns with the state’s requirement for all state government personnel.” 

While the strict mandates will harm educators, who already have been subjected to extreme testing and masking standards, educators (including apparently private institutions who are not under the mandates of the New Mexico Public Education Department) will further be punished.

But New Mexico teachers unions, which purport to care about educators in the Land of Enchantment, apparently do not care about the strenuous requirements implemented by the Governor. On the contrary, the National Education Association New Mexico (NEA-NM) and the American Federation of Teachers New Mexico (AFT-NM) sent out statements in support of the mandates.

AFT-NM wrote the following: 

“Universal masking requirements for students, staff, and visitors have been proactively negotiated at the local level in many school districts across New Mexico, so standardizing this common-sense, science-based mitigation effort represents another way to best help keep students and educators safe and our doors open for learning. 

“We recognize universal masking and increased surveillance testing for the unvaccinated may be onerous for some educators and students, but we must view these procedures and precautions through the lenses of science and public safety, rather than our own personal comfort. 

“Educators have been on the front lines throughout this pandemic, and our commitment and obligation to advocate and work for safe and in-person learning must not waiver. The example we set moving forward will be seen by our students and families, and New Mexico’s educators must continue to be the role models our students, families, and communities know us to be.”

NEA-NM shared a link from the Albuquerque Journal and claimed the edict for educators “matches a policy imposed for state employees earlier this month.”

Despite claiming to care about children and teachers, the governor’s mandates have forced many parents to pull their children out of the public school system and made many teachers’ lives even harder, with steps to encroach on teachers’ preferences not to take the vaccine.

MLG forcing New Mexicans to wear masks indoors regardless of vaccination status

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On Tuesday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced she is reinstating her previous mandate forcing New Mexicans to wear masks indoors, this time regardless of vaccination status. 

According to a press release from Gov. Lujan Grisham’s office, she will “announce that the state of New Mexico will temporarily re-implement a statewide requirement that facemasks be worn in all public indoor spaces, with only limited exceptions, and regardless of vaccination status, to stem the state’s rising tide of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations.” 

The reasoning given by the Governor is as follows:

The spread of COVID-19 in New Mexico has increased dramatically in recent weeks, driven by the highly infectious “Delta” variant and primarily unvaccinated populations. State modeling projects that New Mexico will reach 1,000 new daily cases of COVID-19 by the end of August, and as many as 1,000 new daily cases in southeastern New Mexico alone in the weeks after that.

Dan Boyd of the Albuquerque Journal wrote, “New vaccination requirement for workers in hospitals and congregate care settings also on tap.” The Governor’s press release noted,“Under a separate public health order issued by Secretary Scrase, all workers in New Mexico hospitals and congregate care facilities are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with only limited exceptions.” Few exceptions are allowed. Read more about those here.

According to a release from the Governor’s office: 

Under a public health order issued by Acting Health Secretary David R. Scrase, M.D., the re-implemented mask requirement applies to all individuals aged 2 and older in all indoor public settings — except when eating or drinking.

Masks will be required to everyone in school buildings regardless of vaccination status, which aligns with the most recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Public Education Department has been in the process of updating its toolkit for schools and district personnel.

The indoor mask requirement will be effective Friday, Aug. 20. It will remain in effect until at least September 15. The governor, acting upon the counsel and analysis of the state Medical Advisory Team and state health officials, may decide to extend or lift the requirement as necessary.

Businesses, houses of worship and other entities may enact stricter requirements at their discretion.

MLG now harvesting New Mexicans’ sexual orientation info

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Despite Democrats’ failure to pass a bill in the 2021 Legislative Session to harvest New Mexicans’ sexual orientation data through state agencies, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed an executive order unilaterally mandating the State to harvest this private data from citizens.

The Governor is trying to frame the new action as meant to “improve the provisions of service to a traditionally underserved population,” but during the committee process, the analogous bill, sponsored by state Sen. Carrie Hamblen, was met with backlash from community members concerned over the government getting this sensitive data and being able to use it for nefarious purposes.

“The effect of the order will be to enhance the capacity and ability of state agencies to address health disparities and identify and remove barriers to effective care for non-conforming and traditionally undeserved individuals, as well as enhance services and outreach to those groups of people,” claimed the Governor’s office in a press release.

“If we want to solve a problem, we first need information about what’s causing it,” said Lujan Grisham. “If we are to address inequities that LGBTQ+ New Mexicans experience in their interactions with state government, we must first have the information about where those breakdowns are occurring. This voluntary mechanism for demographic analysis is a tool the state of New Mexico can and will use to improve its service to traditionally underserved New Mexicans. I’m proud to have the chance to initiate that process.”

“I’m grateful this executive order will put into place the representation that is overdue and to start compiling necessary data that will be used to determine resources and services that are desperately needed and deserved,” claimed Hamblen.

Despite community members concerns over the harvesting of this data and the keeping of this database, the Governor’s Office claims, “Under the order, information that is voluntarily provided about sexual orientation and gender identity may only be used for demographic analysis, coordination of care, quality improvement of government services, conducting research and guiding policy and funding decisions. Protections about individual identification are likewise written into the order, as well.” 

Time will tell if this new system will create more problems than answers.

Anti-life ‘Catholic’ Tim Keller endorsed by abortion up-to-birth group

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On Monday, anti-life “Catholic” Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller was endorsed by the abortion up-to-birth group Planned Parenthood, which commits hundreds of thousands of abortions upon innocent children in the womb each year.

Planned Parenthood wrote, “We are thrilled to endorse [Tim Keller] in Albuquerque’s mayoral race. Mayor Keller will fight for our health and our rights — and will work to make sure everyone has access to quality, comprehensive sex education.”

Albuquerque has been known for many years as the abortion capital of the nation, known especially for extreme late-term abortions going past 32 weeks at facilities such as Southwestern Women’s Options.

Keller faces two opponents who have hit the threshold of signatures to get on the ballot, Bernalillo County Sheriff Manny Gonzales and talk radio host Eddy Aragon. 

In a Facebook post in 2019, Keller was overjoyed about a 90% save rate for a local shelter, writing, “A save rate of over 90% is definitely something to wag about. Our Albuquerque Animal Welfare department has worked hard to get to this point and we’re proud to have them on our #OneAlbuquerque team.” But Keller supports full-term abortion and infanticide, the only way he would have earned a Planned Parenthood endorsement. 

Congresswoman Yvette Herrell shreds Biden over ‘international embarrassment’ in Afghanistan

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On Monday, Republican Congresswoman Yvette Herrell of New Mexico’s Second District did not mince words in her reply to Joe Biden’s realized failure in Afghanistan, which is now nearly entirely ravaged by the Taliban.

Herrell said, “After 20 years, it was long past time to leave Afghanistan. But it did not have to be this disaster.”

She added, “The Biden admin. presides over a complete tactical failure and international embarrassment, as well as a tragedy for families who will suffer under a new Taliban regime.”

Biden was nowhere to be found amid the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, with the White House frantically releasing a photograph of what some are calling a “feeble” and “impotent” Biden staring at a screen while sitting alone at a conference table at Camp David. 

45th President Trump, an ally of Congresswoman Herrell, brokered historic peace deals in the Middle East, including a plan to exit Afghanistan safely. But once the Joe Biden regime came to power, all bets were off, and the emboldened Radical Islamic Terrorist group the Taliban took America’s perceived weakness for everything it has got. 

Afghani President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai fled the country hours before the Taliban took Kabul and descended upon the presidential palace in the country’s capital. Taliban members can be seen sitting at the presidential desk while reading the Quran and holding American weapons. 

Even far-left propaganda network CNN blamed Biden for his failure in Afghanistan, with Jake Tapper saying, “It seems shocking that … Biden could’ve been so wrong.”

President Trump has called for Biden to“resign in disgrace” over Biden’s Afghanistan catastrophe. No other members, including Reps. Teresa Leger de Fernandez and Melanie Stansbury or Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján of the New Mexican delegation have commented on Biden’s Afghanistan failure.

Dems politicize ABQ school shooting, use slain boy’s name as vehicle for anti-gun bill

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A school shooting on Friday at Washington Middle School in Albuquerque took the life of 13-year-old Bennie Hargrove by another student, Juan Saucedo. According to reports, Hargrove told Saucedo to stop bullying another boy, which may have led to Saucedo taking out his anger with violence.

The horrific shooting of Hargrove, despite New Mexicans from across political lines mourning his death, has sparked an opportunity for Democrats to use the shooting for political purposes.  

State Sen. Antoinette Sedillo-Lopez (D-Bernalillo) sponsored an extreme anti-gun bill, S.B. 224, during the 2021 Legislative Session that would have criminalized parents for teaching their children how to shoot and brought misdemeanor charges for not locking up all guns in the house. 

The extreme bill was met with backlash from across the country. The New Mexico Shooting Sports Association said of the bill that it was “​​entirely unenforceable, unless police will go door-to-door inspecting firearm storage in your home, it is impossible to know who is and who isn’t complying with the law. The bill [is] entirely unnecessary, it is already a crime to place a child in a situation that endangers their life. This bill only seeks to demonize firearm ownership and scare people away from choosing to protect their family with a gun.” 

But the gaping holes in her anti-gun bill, which was not passed into law in 2021, did not deter Sedillo-Lopez from using the tragedy at Washington Middle School to her advantage. 

She told KOB 4 in a television interview, “Right now the parent has no legal consequence for allowing that gun to be available to the 13-year-old, my wish is the parent would have understood that by law the firearm should have been secured, and it wouldn’t have happened at all.” 

“That child [Saucedo] needed help and so a combination of gun safety legislation and more importantly behavioral health could have prevented this,” Sedillo-Lopez said, adding regarding the next legislative session, “Maybe the Governor would consider putting on her call. I don’t know that this was on her radar. Hopefully, this [shooting] will get it (S.B. 224) on the radar and so we can see some action.” 

But the Albuquerque-area legislator did not mention that there is no evidence available right now regarding how Saucedo obtained the weapon he used to kill Hargrove. Her conclusion came so taht she could apparently politicize the tragedy. KOB reported that there are “talks” of reintroducing the bill as “Bennie’s Law,” using the slain child’s name as a vehicle to ram through the extreme anti-gun legislation.

Bodycam released of police serving disgraced ex-Rep. Williams Stapleton search warrant

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On July 18, 2021, former Representative and Democrat floor leader Sheryl Williams Stapleton had officers at her home executing a search warrant for her alleged involvement with a years-long fraud scheme where she is accused of racketeering, money laundry, and graft through the Albuquerque Public Schools. One of the companies alleged to have benefitted from the corruption scheme is “Robotics,” a Washington, D.C.-based company run by her associate.

Now, “ABQ Raw” has uncovered the bodycam footage from an officer who helped execute the warrant at Williams Stapleton’s Albuquerque home. At the home, Stapleton can be seen exiting the house in a blue nightgown where outside are parked what appear to be five cars, four of them being Volvos. 

“I need to know what’s going on,” Williams Stapleton said to one of the officers.

The officer replied, “We’ll explain everything to you very soon.” 

“A search warrant?” asked Williams Stapleton. When the officer told her she had to stay outside, Williams Stapleton asked, “With all these police?”

“Oh my God. You have all these police for a search warrant?” Another woman came out of the house, saying she didn’t know what was going on. Williams Stapleton replied, “I don’t know what they are [looking] for either.” 

She asked a female officer, “IRS? You’re the IRS?” Then the unidentified woman asked for face masks.

A male agent is then seen speaking to Williams Stapleton, handing her what appears to be the search warrant and the affidavit for the search warrant, telling her “In there describes all the information concerning the information that APS (Albuquerque Public Schools) provided us… [inaudible] to Robotics. So, myself and we also have federal agents here with us today as well. They are investigating, of course, the, you know, everything that’s going on in Washington, D.C. concerning…” 

Stapleton jumped in, asking, “Robotics?” She added, “What does Robotics have to do with… I do do the program. But I don’t have anything to do with anything in Washington.” 

The agent said, “Well, that’s something that we can discuss. And again, the job right now, is to make sure the house is safe and everything else is… and we can talk inside where it’s more comfortable if you wish.” 

The video reveals a stunned Williams Stapleton who appeared to try to distance herself from Robotics and its Washington, D.C. operations, which she called a “program.” More information will come out in the coming days through an exclusive Piñon Post report on Williams Stapleton’s alleged graft.

Torrance County Commission passes resolution protecting local school boards from NMPED

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On Friday, the Torrance County Commission passed a resolution to protect the elected Torrance County municipal school district boards of education by affirming state statute that grants them “certain powers and duties which include developing educational policies for school districts, overseeing budgeting and procurement, and adopting rules pertaining to the administration of all powers and duties of the Torrance County municipal school boards” without threats from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED).

The action comes after duly elected local school boards, including Floyd Municipal Schools in Roosevelt County, have been under fierce attack by the Governor, who has attempted to suspend them and install her hand-selected NMPED bureaucrats in their stead. 

Floyd Municipal School Board rejected the Governor’s mandates instituting forcible masking of children, instituting segregation based on vaccination status, and instituting a surveillance state where students must show proof of vaccination at all times. Lujan Grisham “suspended” the Floyd School Board members after the duly elected body opposed her edicts.  

The Commission noted, that “dictates by the New Mexico Public Education Department to Torrance County municipal school boards threatening punitive actions such as adverse licensure decisions against school district personnel, suspension of Torrance County municipal school board governance, and other enforcement measures, and regarding operations and policy decisions without legislative approval or going through the proper rule-making process and that do not include input from the local community are antithetical to the concepts of local control, federalism, and the rule of law and violate state statute, the New Mexico Administrative Code, and the Constitution of the State of New Mexico.”

Rep. Stefani Lord (R-Bernalillo, Sandoval, and Santa Fe) wrote on Facebook that the Commission “set aside money for legal defense.” Lord added, “the testimony from the people, especially the kids, was compelling.”

State Sen. David Gallegos (R-Eddy and Lea) was also in attendance for the event, where he spoke about the importance of local control. 

The County Commission’s resolution noted that the “Torrance County municipal school district boards of education be permitted to adopt rules and policies pertaining to the administration of all powers and duties of the Torrance County municipal school boards, which include the responsibility to identify community and school district needs and opinions, and to develop short and long term strategies for the educational success, health, safety, and welfare of students and staff.” 

All three commissioners, LeRoy Candelaria, Kevin McCall, and Ryan Schwebach signed onto the resolution.  

Today at the county commission special session, they amended and passed a resolution to protect the ELECTED school board, allowing them to make decisions that are best for their District without bullying and threats from PED or the Governor.

Seventh Republican, pro-life leader Ethel Maharg, running for governor

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On Saturday, pro-life leader Ethel Maharg announced that she is seeking the Republican nomination for governor of New Mexico, making her the seventh GOP contender for the coveted post to take out scandal-ridden alleged serial groper incumbent Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. 

Maharg announced her run at New Beginnings Church of God in Albuquerque, with many in attendance. Maharg, the former three-term mayor of Cuba, New Mexico touted her experience and how during her time running the municipality, she “brought economic development to the very economically distressed part of our state. What I left is still standing today, continuing to provide economic stability to the area. We brought national attention to the state with an event that showcased the White House Christmas tree. This event brought in double the gross receipts revenue for that quarter. When I left office, I left it with 1.9 million in the bank.” 

Maharg said, “I am running for governor to breathe life into New Mexico by restoring the foundation, for it is the foundation, our values, and our Constitution, that made our country the envy of the world.” 

She is a supporter of law enforcement, saying, “I am pro-law enforcement. Without respect for the law-no society can exist. I will never defund the police.”

In 2018, Maharg coordinated the Convoy of Hope for Albuquerque, an event that brought over a million dollars’ worth of goods and services to area residents. She also worked with the Hispanic Action Network to distribute 350,000 voter guides throughout the state in an effort to help with the last governor’s race in 2018. For five years, she worked for the pro-life pregnancy center Care Net and currently serves as the executive director of the Right to Life Committee of New Mexico.

“I will continue to work hard in bringing a Godly administration to serve my fellow New Mexicans,” she said.

Maharg joins Sandoval County Commissioner Jay Block of Rio Rancho, businesswoman Karen Bedonie of Mexican Springs, financier Greg Zanetti of Albuquerque, ex-Gary Johnson staffer Tim Walsh of Albuquerque, state Rep. Rebecca Dow of Truth or Consequences, and businessman Louie Sanchez in the crowded Republican field.

MLG whines about rising NM crime despite signing anti-police bills, backing ‘defund the police’ groups

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On Friday, KOB 4’s Tessa Mentus had an interview with scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, where the Governor complained about crime in New Mexico, especially in Albuquerque. She said the upcoming legislative session in 2022 will focus on crime.

“You want the safest community – that should be the standard in New Mexico. And in addition, Albuquerque and too many other communities in New Mexico are just not safe.”

She said to lawmakers regarding crime, “If you want a priority, make it a priority. And I expect all policymakers to be more engaged in public safety issues statewide. It’s not Albuquerque or… it’s not Santa Fe or…. We got to all do it together.” 

She added, “I’m open to any kind of legislative effort that makes a difference in the quality of lives (sic) for New Mexicans, and if that means making us safer, so be it.”

Mentus noted, “But we have seen legislative efforts before at our Roundhouse time and time again, and they go nowhere. Public safety bills get introduced, most of them by Republican lawmakers representing the metro, and they barely make it out of committee. Forget ever seeing them make it to the Governor’s desk.” 

When asking how this would be different to the Governor, in a commanding manner, the Governor said, “If I set that tone that this is what I expect, I get it.”

Lujan Grisham added, “I’ve got the votes, and I’ve got bipartisan support.” 

But if Lujan Grisham was focused on eliminating crime, she would not have been a staunch supporter of many anti-police bills proposed last legislative session, including H.B. 4, which put targets on peace officers’ backs by stripping them of qualified immunity and opening police departments and localities up to frivolous lawsuits — bankrupting them.

H.B. 4’s sponsors, Speaker Brain Egolf (D-Santa Fe) and state Rep. Georgene Louis (D-Bernalillo), just so happen to be “civil rights” attorneys who would directly profit off of their legislative proposals. Lujan Grisham signed the anti-police, anti-public safety bill anyway. 

Lujan Grisham’s allies in the Legislature, such as state Sen. Linda Lopez (D-Bernalillo), sponsored the most extreme anti-police bills in the nation, including S.B. 227, which would have implemented the “strongest” anti-police “use of force” standard in the nation.

Now, Lujan Grisham, amid record-breaking homicide rates in Albuquerque and some New Mexico streets looking like warzones, is trying to save face despite her support for Black Lives Matter protesters who want to defund the police. 

And if public safety was such a priority for Lujan Grisham, she would call a special session like she did to implement recreational marijuana in New Mexico. 

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