On Monday, George Soros-backed District Attorney Raúl Torres announced that he would be running for New Mexico attorney general, setting up a challenge between current state auditor Brian Colón and the Albuquerque-area district attorney.
“I think New Mexicans want bold leadership and tested leadership inside the AG’s Office,” he said in an interview with the Albuquerque Journal Monday. “I think they want someone who isn’t afraid to take on some of the toughest challenges we’ve got in the state.”
“Fundamentally, I believe we don’t have a system right now that provides adequate protections for the general public,” he said. Torrez has degrees from Harvard, Stanford, and the London School of Economics.
Hedge fund billionaire George Soros, who has funded extreme projects such as Black Lives Matter and other dark money groups backing socialist initiatives, donated $107,000 to a political action committee, “New Mexico Safety & Justice” that helped Raúl Torrez win the Democrat primary for district attorney in 2016.
According to the Journal’s report, State Sen. Jacob Candelaria, D-Albuquerque, said he is also weighing a campaign for attorney general.
Candelaria has a long past of unhinged far-left comments, which would likely not bode well for him in a matchup between a statewide elected official (Colón) and billionaire George Soros’ hand-selected candidate (Torrez).
The race for attorney general is wide open, as Hector Balderas is term-limited, and he declined to run for the U.S. Senate in 2020 against his fellow Democrat Ben Ray Luján, who now has filled that position.
I knew Torrez was crooked just did not know he was “George Soros funded” crooked.
Another NO MORALS lawyer in New Mexico Gov’t –just what we need… When is the BS of corrupt and ill-willed people be removed and shunned from office in this state? I’m hoping people are seeing what corruption and thievery in the democrapic party is doing to America and we put a stop to it!
followthemoney.org MLG is highly funded by Soros – the whole Soros family not just him and his son as reported. Anyone funded by them is ANTI-AMERICAN!!!
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It’s not dark money if Soros attaches his name to it. I am voting against the incompetent Brian Colon!
Ah ha , I knew it as soon as he took to the TV to attack AntiAbortion Conservative Counties in South East New Mexico which ARE NOT THEIR VALUES !!! MIKE GONZALES. ALBUQUERQUE.