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Maggie Toulouse Oliver, Hector Balderas sued in federal court

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On Monday, election integrity watchdog Voter Reference Foundation (VRF)  filed a lawsuit against New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and Attorney General Hector Balderas to ensure the publication of the state’s voter rolls.

The suit was filed in ​​U.S. District Court in Albuquerque with the First Amendment being front and center in the complaint about the group’s right to publish the voter rolls for taxpayers to view.

VRF claims Toulouse Oliver falsely claimed in public statements that the group illegally published New Mexico’s voter rolls. She has a past of refusing to release voting records, as she did in 2017 when they were requested by President Donald J. Trump. 

“After VRF published the New Mexico voter roll in December, Oliver said it was illegal and referred the matter to Democratic Attorney General Hector Balderas for investigation and possible prosecution, according to a ProPublica article cited in the lawsuit,” Just The News reports.

“We are not going to be deterred by partisan election officials who believe the election records taxpayers pay for are their personal possessions,” said Doug Truax, Founder and President of Restoration Action, which started VRF. “The public has a right to see them and if they try to block us, we will assert that right in court.”

“The taxpayers of New Mexico pay for election administration, and they have an absolute right to view the records that are produced,” added Truax.

The lawsuit reads, “Because their First Amendment rights to use and disclose the voter data for purposes of encouraging voter participation and protecting election integrity are being chilled, Plaintiffs sue the Defendants in their official capacities to obtain a declaration that their conduct is lawful and to enjoin Defendants from enforcing any statute in violation of Plaintiffs’ rights.”

MLG touts abortion, pot, taxpayer-funded college as biggest accomplishments

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On Tuesday, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham sent out yet another fundraising email, this time trying to claim her administration has been a success on three major issues: abortion, recreational marijuana, and taxpayer-funded “free” college programs.

She spoke about how her signing of a 2021 bill to legalize abortion up-to-birth and infanticide was a “safeguard” for the ability to kill more children in the womb in New Mexico.

Lujan Grisham wrote, “I safeguarded our reproductive rights as the GOP attempted to enact near-total abortion bans in other states.”

Regarding pot legalization, she wrote, “I legalized cannabis to take a step toward ending the war on drugs, which has disproportionately harmed Black and brown communities.”

Lastly, she wrote, “​​I just signed a bill that will provide free higher education to every New Mexico student – opening doors for a generation of young adults.” This program costs the taxpayers a recurring $75 million, which in times of economic crisis will require tax increases to fund.

Lujan Grisham did not, however, talk about the 40% of small businesses killed under her pandemic lockdowns, the high pandemic virus numbers despite stringent mandates, or New Mexico having the highest unemployment rate in the United States.

Under her tenure, other than mass economic devastation, the Governor faced scandal after scandal, including a $150,000 payoff from campaign funds to a sexual abuse victim who claims she groped him. At the Children, Youth, and Families Department, important records were being deleted while whistleblowers who sounded the alarm got fired.

The Department of Workforce Solutions also had hundreds of millions of dollars missing while she paid people not to work during her pandemic lockdown — further exacerbating the economic devastation.

But despite these grievous offenses in office and more, Lujan Grisham is banging the drum on her legislative record of killing more babies up to the date of their birth, legalizing drugs, and forcing New Mexico’s already impoverished taxpayers to fork over more dough for “free” college programs.

Lujan Grisham faces multiple GOP opponents, one of which will be selected on the June 7 primary to take her out. Multiple Libertarians are also running for the nomination, showing a competitive race to defeat the scandal-ridden Governor in November.

As NM families struggle, state pays Dem consultant $125/hr for pro-pot propaganda

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Democrat political insider and consultant for some of New Mexico’s highest-ranking Democrats was recently reported to have been given a no-bid contract with the state’s Cannabis Control Division to help generate propaganda supportive of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s pro-pot law that legalized recreational marijuana use. 

The contractor, Heather Brewer of “HB Strategies,” was paid “$125 an hour under a no-bid, $64,750 consulting services contract designed to make the agency look good,” according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.

Brewer ran Maggie Toulouse Oliver’s failed U.S. Senate race, has assisted pro-abortion up-to-birth group Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, worked as a staffer for U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, and consulted for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, appointed Supreme Court Justice Shannon Bacon, and pro-abortion group “Respect ABQ Women.”

She is a founding board member of the extremist Democrat training camp “Emerge New Mexico,” which promotes radical pro-abortion female candidates to run for political office in the state.

Now, all of Brewer’s support for radical Democrat policies and politicians is paying off with this hefty contract that some could construe as a political kickback from Democrats who are in charge of the state.

But Bernice Geiger, public information officer and marketing director for the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, claimed, “HB Strategies brings years of high-level communications experience, and the compensation is commensurate with that experience.” 

To further defend the lucrative contract, Geiger said, “It’s also important to note that overall costs for an independent contractor are likely to be less, given that they are paid a flat rate without the overhead costs of payroll taxes, employee benefits, etc.”

But Republican contenders for governor blasted the payoff to the Democrat consultant. 

State Rep. Rebecca Dow, who is one of the GOP contenders for governor, wrote in a release from her campaign, “While New Mexicans across this state are suffering from skyrocketing gas prices and the highest inflation in decades, Michelle Lujan Grisham paid a sweetheart deal to a party faithful. The no-bid contract was given to Heather Brewer, a Democrat consultant who has worked with New Mexico Democrats and Planned Parenthood, and was billed at a rate of $125 an hour to the New Mexican taxpayer. What is a cannabis spokesman anyway?”

“When I call for MLG to get New Mexicans back to work, this isn’t what I have in mind,” Dow said. 

“MLG is signing premium checks to her far-left friends and allies who are turning exorbitant profits. With our dollar being devalued more every day due to the Biden inflation crisis you would have hoped to see our leaders in Santa Fe getting the most out of our hard-earned tax dollars. New Mexicans are struggling to make $125 per day; to pay that rate for an hour’s work to a Democrat operative is a textbook example of Santa Fe waste from MLG. New Mexico is last in unemployment, but one thing is clear – it sure pays to be one of MLG’s cronies!”

After signing $8.5B budget, MLG touts mere $31M/yr recreational pot will bring

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On April 1, recreational marijuana sales start in New Mexico after scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham rammed through a bill legalizing the illicit substance in 2021 following a failed attempt to pass it in a regular session.

“[A]ll adults 21 and up will be allowed to buy up to 2 ounces (57 grams) of marijuana at retail outlets throughout the state. It’s enough pot to stuff a sandwich bag or roll about 60 joints or cigarettes,” reports U.S. News.

But despite budget concerns about the cost of implementing the new law, as well as troubles it will bring with more crime on already crime-ridden New Mexico streets, the Democrat governor is touting the measure. 

Lujan Grisham claimed on Saturday, “We legalized cannabis and with it, we’re going to bring in $31 million in revenue in its first year alone. This means new opportunity for New Mexico!”

Even if the figure Lujan Grisham cites is true, the mere $31 million in tax revenue would generate would be a drop in the bucket as the far-left budget bassed by the Legislature this legislative session was the largest in the history of the state at $8.5 billion. 

That means it would be a mere 0.36% of the needed revenue to make up for the Democrats’ anti-energy policies implemented under the Lujan Grisham administration.

Elisa Martinez announces candidacy for NM House District 27

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On Friday, pro-life leader and conservative activist Elisa Martinez announced her candidacy for New Mexico State House of Representatives in District 27, based in Albuquerque.

In her announcement, Martinez wrote,  “As you know, I have fought tirelessly for the past decade to try to get our laws changed in Santa Fe, and I have often been discouraged by how tone-deaf our legislature can be. Many are simply unwilling to listen to the voices of the people. And the results are clear: sadly, we are last in everything good and first in everything bad. This is why I am excited to share this news with you. I have decided to take on the Santa Fe establishment – it’s time to put New Mexico’s voices first – not last.” 

“If the Santa Fe politicians won’t listen to our serious concerns with rising crime, failing education, lack of jobs, and ever-rising prices, then I’m running to MAKE them listen to us. It’s way past time for accountability and new representation. to move New Mexico forward – not backward,” she wrote.

Martinez has lived in Albuquerque for over 25 years and worked as a small business owner as well as a family and community advocate. 

According to her website, “Elisa has vast experience working with every level of government including the White House, Congress, as well as state, city, and county governments across the state for over 10 years for a safer. She is a nationally recognized speaker on economic and social policy issues, and has been featured in national media from Fox News to the New York Times. Elisa has worked on policy issues for over 10 years and is passionate about youth, Hispanic and Native American engagement in politics.” 

Martinez is challenging incumbent Rep. Marian Matthews (D-Bernalillo), who was first appointed to the Legislature in 2020 after the sudden passing of Rep. Bill Pratt (D-Bernalillo). She is a party-line Democrat who has been a rubber stamp for Gov. Lujan Grisham’s leftist agenda. In the GOP primary, Martinez faces former candidate for District 27, Robert Godshall. 

Toulouse Oliver campaign claims she’s ‘been upholding election integrity’

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In a recent fundraising email, Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver’s campaign made an inaccurate claim that she “has been upholding election integrity since she took office.” This comes after she has repeatedly tried to unilaterally change the election code, which has forced the state Supreme Court to strike down her attempted changes.

Also, Toulouse Oliver backed multiple far-left proposals in the Legislature to remove integrity measures and let absentee ballots arrive the Friday after an election. That proposal also called for universal unsecured ballot drop boxes, ballot harvesting, and other measures that would have left New Mexico elections even more wrought with fraud.

But despite that, her campaign claims, “In one of the most vital election years on record, they say it’s all about election integrity for them, yet we’re not sure why because Maggie has been upholding election integrity since she took office. She intends to continue ensuring our elections are fair, free, safe, and secure when she wins reelection.”

Also, Toulouse Oliver’s campaign asserts it is “busy fending off attacks from far-right extremist billionaires with deep pockets claiming our election was a lie,” citing an unnamed “billionaire-backed dark money group.”

The comment reeks of irony as Toulouse Oliver has had the backing of far-left billionaire-backed dark money groups, including George Soros-funded pro-abortion EMILY’s List, Planned Parenthood Votes New Mexico, eco-Marxist “350” and the “Sierra Club,” among others.

The Secretary of State has weaponized her office throughout the years to go after political opponents, including her attempt to stop the Otero County audit of the 2020 election, which has already shown multiple abnormalities. She has worked in concert with Attorney General Hector Balderas and State Auditor Brian Colón to attempt to stop the county-sanctioned inquiry.

MLG focuses on indoctrinating NM kids with CRT

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This week, the Albuquerque Journal reported on the updated social studies standards by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s New Mexico Public Education Department that include the racist Critical Race Theory language aimed at dividing children by their race, gender, economic situation, and more.

These new standards include Critical Race Theory principles of “unequal power relations,” “privilege or systemic inequity,” and mandates that students identify their “group identity” beginning in kindergarten.

“Whether they fit all the definitions of ‘critical race theory’ or not, the new standards appear designed to divide New Mexicans by race, ethnicity and economic status,” Rio Grande Foundation president Paul Gessing told the Journal.

According to recent scores, New Mexico ranks last in public school education and nearly 1 in 4 students never graduate high school.

Republican Governors Association regional press secretary Will Reinert said, “‘Privilege, power and inequity language’ will be sure to divide students instead of uniting kids to build a stronger New Mexico together.”

“Distracted from countless scandals and constant education secretary turnover, Michelle Lujan Grisham is not capable of turning around the state’s public school education system,” Reinert said. “Instead, Governor Lujan Grisham forces teachers to focus on teaching a divisive curriculum instead of skills that will lead to better opportunities for New Mexico’s children.”

The news of the Critical Race Theory standards is not new, as the Legislature previously passed the “Black Education Act” in the form of 2021’s H.B. 43, a bill sponsored by disgraced ex-Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton (D-Bernalillo), who served as the Democrats’ House majority leader. She is currently being charged on multiple federal counts after she appears to have stolen millions of dollars from the Albuquerque Public Schools through her role as a legislator and an administrator.

H.B. 43 included adding CRT to the New Mexico public schools, indoctrinating children with language such as “…creating and sustaining equitable and culturally responsive learning environments.” It requires all school personnel to “successfully complete an online or in-person antiracism, racial awareness and sensitivity training or professional development approved by the department that addresses race, racism and racialized aggression and demonstrates how to create and foster an equitable and culturally responsive learning environment for racial minority students.”

Furthermore, H.B. 43 also mandated, “All school discipline policies shall define and include a specific prohibition against racialized aggression involving a student or school personnel.” Now, CRT is seeping through the public school system, leaving districts with not many options.

Groups commemorating the Battle of Glorieta Pass on its 160th anniversary

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On Saturday, multiple groups are holding an event at the Plaza in Santa Fe to honor the sacrifice of the brave Union soldiers who fought the Confederacy in the victorious 1862 Battle of Glorieta Pass, helping to stop the Confederates from moving west. 

The Battle was a decisive Union victory in the American Civil War, fought near Pecos in the Sangre de Cristo mountains, which forced the Confederacy to flee with their remaining forces to the Territory of Arizona, then Texas.

The event will be held near the Soliders’ Monument obelisk, first erected in 1866, honoring the Union soldiers, which was toppled by hate groups and out-of-state activists in October 2020. The Santa Fe district attorney let all of the guilty go free, claiming “restorative justice” was their punishment. 

“Unfortunately, there are some in our community [who] don’t fully understand our history or the sacrifices New Mexicans have made in the cause of freedom for all our residents. And although the Soliders’ Monument was vandalized … leaving our community itself feeling damaged, we can take a positive step [toward] healing by remembering why it is there. Honoring our brave veterans still with us and reviving the old tradition of honoring past generations that fought and died for the freedoms we all enjoy today,” a video for the event noted. 

Multiple groups are putting on the event, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, Union Protectiva de Santa Fe, Road Warriors, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Hispanic Anti-Defamation League, and the Hispano Round Table of New Mexico, according to the ads for the event.

The event begins at 12:00 noon on Saturday, March 26, featuring “great speakers and a brief history lesson” being given by a historian. The names of the soldiers fallen in battle will be read aloud to honor their memory. 

Soros orgs that were mum on MLG groping scandal now demand Dem senator resign

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On Monday, far-left dark money groups, including some funded by billionaire George Soros, demanded that state Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto resign amid new supposed “allegations” from lobbyists where he is accused of raising his voice at women. Another allegation that just came to fruition was one from the 1990s where a former alleged college classmate claimed he pinned her to a wall.

The move comes as a far-left proponent of Democrats’ pro-voter fraud measures in the 2022 Legislative Session, Marianna Anaya, filed a complaint against Ivey-Soto for inappropriate behavior, which the senator denied. She claims Ivey-Soto slow-walked the pro-voter fraud bill to get back at her. 

The new allegations accuse Ivey-Soto of referring to one lobbyist, Heather Ferguson of Common Cause New Mexico, as “Lips and Hips.” New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence lobbyist Miranda Viscoli claimed the senator once screamed and cursed at her.

One allegation comes from Carmen López, who worked at the Thornberg Foundation. She doesn’t remember when Ivey-Soto allegedly raised his voice at her sometime between 2014 and 2018.

“Gayle Krueger, then a University of New Mexico staff member, said Ivey-Soto in the 1990s pressed her against a wall and screamed in her face. He was a student at the time, she said, and had been elected chair of a graduate student government organization,” reported the Albuquerque Journal.

The dark money groups demanding Ivey-Soto resign include “Common Cause, OLE-Organizers in the Land of Enchantment, Equality New Mexico, New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence, NM Native Vote and the Center for Civic Policy,” the Journal report noted.

It should be noted that not a single one of these organizations spoke out against multiple men accusing Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has been endorsed by many of these groups, of sexual assault. Lujan Grisham paid out $150,000 to one alleged victim, James Hallinan, for claims she poured water over his pants and then groped his penis at an event held at state Rep. Deborah Armstrong’s house.

Now, these dark money groups, who have a political goal by attempting to oust Ivey Soto, suddenly care about sexual assault allegations when it appears to line up in ther best interest — to install a new Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham-appointed senator in his seat.

MLG hires cyber security aide in fear of ‘crippling’ Russian attacks

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On Friday, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced she had hired a new cyber security advisor, Annie Winterfield Manriquez, citing Russian attacks.

According to StateScoop, “Manriquez is tasked with bolstering the state’s cybersecurity posture by working with ‘key stakeholders across government,’ developing statewide standards and ‘best practices for information-sharing, communications, and incident response protocols,’” 

Lujan Grisham claimed her new hire was because of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with “state-sponsored cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure in the U.S.” She said that “potentially crippling Russian cyberattacks” could target New Mexico.

“As the current geopolitical situation in Ukraine devolves and state-sponsored cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure in the U.S. grow more sophisticated, the White House and federal agencies responsible for cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection have called for states to take immediate steps to strengthen their defenses against potentially crippling Russian cyberattacks,” her news release read.

“New Mexico holds the distinction of being the first state this year where a local government disclosed being hit by a successful ransomware attack. On Jan. 5, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, reported an incident that led to extended disruptions of numerous services and functions, including an outage of technology used by the county jail, prompting officials to keep inmates in lockdown,” the report continued.

Manriquez worked at the Mitre Corporation, a federally funded research and development group. She also previously worked at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.

“A robust cybersecurity framework has never been more important, and we are already seeing more sophisticated cyberattacks being carried out in New Mexico and the rest of the country,” said Gov. Lujan Grisham. “It is critical that the state continue to take action to make sure we are as prepared and protected as possible, and Annie is the leader the state needs.”

This comes as Lujan Grisham’s departments have had abysmal security measures, with IPRA requests provisioning login credentials and countless records being deleted by important departments, such as the Children, Youth, and Families (CYFD) Department which deals with sensitive data regarding minors. 

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