Michelle Lujan Grisham

‘Cringe’: MLG embarrasses New Mexicans at soccer game

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.

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MLG campaign makes its most desperate fundraising plea yet

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.

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

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.

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

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.’” 

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Despite MLG doubling down on abortion support, Archbishop won’t deny her Eucharist

This week, pro-abortion Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has doubled down on her support for radical abortion up-to-birth policies. She signed an executive order harboring fugitive abortionists who flee to New Mexico from extradition. She then met with Joe Biden and fellow Democrat governors to promote pushing the Biden regime to perform abortions at Veterans Affairs hospitals, Indian Health Service facilities, and military bases, calling such a plan an  “effective vehicle.”

Also last week amid the pro-abortion extremism from the Governor, Piñon Post chief and Republican nominee for New Mexico House District 51, John Block, sent a letter to Archbishop John C. Wester of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. The letter requested that Lujan Grisham, who claims to be a Roman Catholic, be denied the sacrament of Holy Communion due to her abortion stance.

Block noted how the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) “affirmed and reaffirmed over the years, ‘The threat of abortion remains our preeminent priority.’ I take the USCCB seriously when it states abortion is its preeminent priority, as I am sure you do as well.”

In 2021, the USCCB passed a teaching document by a vote of 222-8 reading, “It is the special responsibility of the diocesan bishop to work to remedy situations that involve public actions at variance with the visible communion of the Church and the moral law.”

With regard to the application of these principles to Catholics in political life, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote to the U.S. bishops in 2004 explaining the approach to be taken:

Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote to the U.S. bishops in 2004 what actions were to be taken against pro-abortion politicians regarding the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist:

 “… when a person’s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws), his Pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist. When ‘these precautionary measures have not had their effect … ,’ and the person in question, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, ‘the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it.’”

Block wrote in the letter that Lujan Grisham’s support for abortion up-to-birth policies, including assisted suicide “are directly responsible for the killing of innocent children and terminal patients in New Mexico, which are contrary to Church teachings throughout the centuries. If the state will not bring justice for these innocent lives lost at the hands of Lujan Grisham and the Radical Democrats, it is at the very least the Church’s responsibility to hold them accountable within its power.”

He then asked for the Archbishop to deny the pro-abortion politician Communion, writing, “These actions should mirror, if not be more punitive, to those of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who has denied pro-abortion U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the sacrament of Holy Communion in his diocese. Recently, my bishop, Peter Baldacchino of the Diocese of Las Cruces, denied pro-abortion state Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Doña Ana) Communion after his vote for S.B. 10, so there is precedent in New Mexico for this important action.”

“Our faith is the only thing we have left. It is what has carried the Church through centuries of persecution and toil, and it is what will carry us through today. If the Church refuses to stand firm now on this bedrock principle to save the most vulnerable, then our faith is lost,” he concluded.

Wester, however, did not agree. In response, he wrote that he would not deny the rabidly pro-abortion politician Holy Communion, writing, “I will not deny the governor Holy Communion since I agree wholeheartedly with Cardinal-designate Robert W. McElroy’s article in America magazine in which he outlines three compelling reasons for not withholding Communion to Catholic pro-choice politicians.”

The reasons from the liberal cardinal-designate included those who seek to deny the Eucharist based on the grave sin of killing a child in the womb are “weaponizing” it. Another reason is that “we are all sinners,” and therefore, “Who of the faithful can claim such an ideal?” The last reason given is because of Pope Francis’ statement, “The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.”

However, ingesting the Eucharist while living with unrepentant sin, will cause sickness and death. I Corinthians 11:27-30 reads:

“Whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying.” 

The Archbishop concluded in his letter, “These three points are only some of the many reasons that this question of withholding Holy Communion is quite complex.  For example, it is not always easy to determine formal cooperation in evil, remote material cooperation or proximate material cooperation.  In addition, intention is always an important factor in determining whether an action is sinful or not.  A given politician may believe that by remaining in office he or she can do more to work toward ending abortion than by leaving office.  Another might believe that by working to attenuate poverty, a huge driver of abortions, he or she could be effective in lessening the number of abortions in America.”

It appears Wester is attempting to justify Lujan Grisham’s support for abortion due to supposed policies she may be supporting to help end poverty and other issues.

However, the Rev. Fr. Larry Brito of St. Anne Parish in Santa Fe told the Santa Fe New Mexican regarding Lujan Grisham’s pro-abortion stance, “[S]he has already excommunicated herself by her extreme gross support and promotion of the murder of unborn children. I pray that she may have a change of heart and that she may receive the full graces of the Catholic Church. Salvation and lives are at stake.”

Despite other members of the clergy taking the killing of babies in the womb seriously by withholding Holy Communion from the likes of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and state Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Doña Ana), there will be no recourse for Lujan Grisham’s grave promotion of abortion. Wester likely was one of the eight bishops who voted against a resolution attempting to remedy situations involving pro-abortion Catholic politicians. 

Until now, New Mexicans have not gotten a clear answer in Archbishop Wester’s own words on this subject matter until Block’s letter.

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Lujan Grisham joins Biden to promote radical pro-abortion policies

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.”

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MLG claims ads hitting her on wasteful spending are ‘misleading’

On Thursday, far-left Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has been under fire from Republican Governors Association (RGA)-affiliated groups for her lavish spending, once again slapped down claims in the attempt to raise more campaign money.

She sent out a fundraising email claiming the ads which pointed out she misused thousands of dollars in taxpayer money were “misleading attack ads” in the attempt to replace her with moderate Republican Mark Ronchetti, who she claims is a “far-right radical.”

Previously, the Governor claimed in a response to the RGA ads that claims of her wasteful spending were “nonsense.”

But reports show that she spent at least “$17,546 on food, alcohol, kitchen equipment, and Christmas ornaments,” according to an audit of her lavish spending.

In the ad responding to criticisms, an announcer said, “Have you seen this ad attacking Governor Luhan Grisham, but expensive steaks and alcohol for her friends? It’s nonsense.”

The RGA launched a subsequent ad hitting the scandal-ridden governor for her tone-deaf response.

The group claimed Lujan Grisham was “living large on our dime.” Watch the latest ad here:

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MLG goes on CNN to promote unlimited late-term abortions in NM, bash SCOTUS

On Tuesday, scandal-ridden Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who signed a radical abortion up-to-birth law in New Mexico in 2021, appeared on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper to promote abortions.

While on the program, Lujan Grisham made outlandish claims, especially that she believes the U.S. Supreme Court “invited” states to “rewrite the U.S. Constitution,” despite abortion never being referenced in the document. the Court recently ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson that it was up to individual states to regulate abortions, which overturned the por-abortion 1973 Roe v. Wade and 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decisions.

“Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has basically said that we are inviting states to rewrite the U.S. Constitution in any way they want, they’re now also free, like Texas, to persecute providers and women who seek to access reproductive services in other states. So, we’re being proactive and making it clear that this is a reproductive safe haven state.”

She then went on to tout her signing of the anti-life law, telling Tapper, “We eliminated an antiquated New Mexico unconstitutional ban on abortion that criminalized providers. And while it was never utilized, providers were, in fact, nervous about it. Could see sort of the tipping point at the U.S. Supreme Court and were very clear that that needed to be removed from our statutory framework, which we did about a year ago.”

The bill flatly stripped all protections for babies in the womb, mothers, and medical professionals, creating an unsafe, unregulated abortion free-for-all in the state of New Mexico.

Then Tapper told Lujan Grisham that most Americans support some restrictions on abortion, telling the Governor, “The polls also indicate the American people, as a whole, do support some restrictions on abortion. What is the law in New Mexico? Are there any restrictions?”

Lujan Grisham responded, “There are no restrictions. given that we interpret and I agree that, again, per this new Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, is this is a privacy right and a personal decision between a woman and her doctor. and to interfere in any of these medical decisions creates, and it has, unknown, untold reductions in civil liberties for any number of individuals.”

She piled on, “Here, we would love to do as much as we can to focus on maternal health and prenatal health, to make sure that we have fewer and fewer and fewer and eliminate all unwanted pregnancies. however, in these late-term abortion issues, these are women who have picked a name, have enrolled in child care, who have a nursery. The kind of medical issues and deeply private, personal traumas that are occurring in those aspects, I don’t believe government has any right to interfere and judge those decisions when two medical providers are providing that information directly to their patient.”

The Governor recently signed an executive order meant to help harbor criminals who illegally perform abortions in other states and flee to New Mexico.

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TV station distances itself from anti-MLG ads after ‘concerned citizens’ complained

On Tuesday, the left-leaning TV station KOB 4 attempted to distance itself from advertisements using its reporting that criticized Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.

The scandal-ridden Governor has misused taxpayer funds to buy personal expenses such as $200/lb Wagyu beef and liquor while forcing New Mexicans at the same time to stand in long bread lines to get food and basic goods over the holidays in 2020.

The ad used news clips from KOB and other stations reporting on Lujan Grisham’s lavish spending on the taxpayers’ dime.

One KOB anchor says regarding the Governor’s spending spree, “there’s more booze, there’s more food, and some other items that might surprise you.”

Another anchor from the station says, “Are these expenditures okay with you or not?”

KOB 4 released a statement attempting to distance itself from the Republican Governors Association (RGA)-affiliated PAC, “Get Families Back to Work,” which ran the ads.

“In recent days, concerned citizens have reached out to KOB TV about a political advertisement that uses content from KOB TV news reports.  Many people have interpreted this particular advertisement as an endorsement by KOB TV of a particular candidate. This is not the case,” wrote KOB TV’s Vice President & General Manager, Michelle Donaldson.

“KOB TV does not take sides in political elections.  Like all broadcasters, we are bound by election laws that ensure access to the airwaves for political messages,” she wrote.

“Broadcasters are guided to give wide latitude to a multitude of political opinions.  When the ad is from a specific candidate for office, broadcasters are prohibited by law from censoring, editing or altering the message in any way.  Additionally, the US Supreme Court has determined that independent spending groups have a constitutionally protected right to participate in the political process and speak out on issues and candidates.”

“It is not unusual for candidates or political groups to use excerpts of news reports in their ads.  The editing of these ads may create confusion about their origin. To be clear, KOB TV does not endorse or support any particular candidate,” Donaldson concluded. 

Lujan Grisham attempted to downplay the ad, calling the thousands of dollars misused “nonsense” in her latest television spot.

The RGA quickly responded to her rebuttal in a fiery television ad:

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MLG skewered for ‘living large on our dime’ in fiery new ad

On Tuesday, the Republican Governors Association (RGA) released its latest ad showcasing far-left Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s lavish spending on the backs of New Mexico taxpayers. 

The ad called the Governor out for brushing off criticisms of wasteful spending as “nonsense.” 

In a previous ad responding to criticisms, an announcer said, “Have you seen this ad attacking Governor Luhan Grisham, but expensive steaks and alcohol for her friends? It’s nonsense.”

The RGA hit back, with spokesman Will Reinert writing, “While New Mexicans struggled during the pandemic, Michelle Lujan Grisham spent taxpayer money on everything from baby shower decorations to lavish food items.” He added, “To make matters worse, Governor Lujan Grisham thinks she is above being held accountable for her ridiculous purchases, and her office even went so far to call the focus on her spending ‘bull****.’”

The fiery new TV ad says:

Michelle Lujan Grisham calls accountability for her lavish spending “nonsense”

The facts: 

She spent our tax dollars on…

Steaks…

Alcohol…

Gourmet meals…

Dry cleaning…

Shoe repair…

A new doggy door…

Even a baby shower with pink pacifiers 

Tens of thousands on inappropriate expenses… more than many New Mexicans make in a year.

Governor Lujan Grisham – living large on our dime.

Now that’s nonsense.

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