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MLG’s special session: Dems pass payments that could go to illegals

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On Tuesday, the New Mexico Legislature reconvened upon request of scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The special meeting of the Legislature came after fierce bipartisan backlash following her veto of $50 million in junior money that would go to each representative’s district. 

At the time, Lujan Grisham said she was “unconvinced” that the distribution of more than $50 million for projects across the state “upholds principles of fiscal responsibility.” This comes after she signed a mammoth $8.5 billion budget that included millions in funding for the Green New Deal, anti-gun programs, and taxpayer-funded “free” college.

Also included in the special session was an apparent attempt to buy votes by giving New Mexicans relief payments amid rising gas prices, but she refused to have the Legislature pass a tax cut on gasoline.

According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, these rebates are “payments of either $500 to individual adult taxpayers or $1,000 to households with joint income tax filers.” 

The outlet reported:

The payments will be disbursed in June and August. That way, [Rep. Christine] Chandler said, the economic effect on the state will be split between two budget years — 2022, which ends June 30, and 2023, which begins July 1.

Single taxpayers will receive two payments of $250 each, and couples who filed joint returns will get two payments of $500.

Taxpayers who filed their returns electronically will automatically receive their payments via direct deposit into their bank account. The state will mail checks to others.

But many Republicans claimed the bill would violate the state’s anti-donation clause.

“The gas rebate bill ended up not being a gas rebate bill. HB 2 has nothing to do with gas tax,” said Rep. Stefani Lord (R-Sandia Park). 

“A rebate means you filed taxes, and you get a rebate on personal income. HB 2 had a ‘payment’ (not a rebate) portion in section 2 that not only violated the anti-donation clause of the NM constitution but it also had a financial cap with a first come first serve limitation. 

We presented a substitute that would have removed the constitution violation, but it was denied.”

During the debate, Democrats claimed senior citizens did not know how to file taxes to attempt to ram it through. Rep. Eliseo Alcon (D-Milan) said, “Seniors don’t know how to do taxes.”

Illegal aliens and foreign nationals will receive money through the bill if they are registered with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). The bill will cost taxpayers $700 million, which is taking more desperately needed money from the state’s general fund.

The bill passed 50-13 in the House of Representatives and by 35-1 in the Senate, with Sen. David Gallegos (D-Eunice) being the one vote against.

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MLG complains about self-inflicted fundraising blackout

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On Tuesday, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is calling for another special session after she vetoed a junior spending bill that included funding for the Special Olympics, senior centers, and helping solve child abuse cases. 

The special session is likely a tactical move by Lujan Grisham to ram through more of her far-left policies through the pretext of revisiting the special project funding bill. However, reconvening the Legislature for a special session means a fundraising blackout for legislative candidates, sitting legislators, and the governor.

But despite Lujan Grisham’s actions being the sole reason for the special session, she is now complaining about the fundraising blackout. 

She wrote in a fundraising email, “I’m already behind on my fundraising goals because I was not allowed to fundraise during the legislative session from December through March – and ANOTHER fundraising blackout starts Tuesday.” She claimed she needed more cash before the blackout due to her “protect[ing] our state from far-right radicalism.”

In a follow-up email to Lujan Grisham’s, her campaign wrote, “ANOTHER fundraising blackout will start on April 5. This is horrible news in an election year.” 

Apparently, the far-left governor and her team are hoping potential donors to their campaign forget that Lujan Grisham’s fundraising blackout is self-inflicted due to her veto that resulted in bipartisan fury. Now, in true form, the governor is once again playing the victim to raise more cash.

Campaign funds from Lujan Grisham have been used inappropriately in the past, including $150,000 in hush money to the governor’s alleged groping victim and over $8,000 to her own daughter for hair and makeup services — a violation of state campaign finance law.

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MLG makes surprise appearance at ABQ weed shop

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On Friday, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham made a surprise appearance at Everest Cannabis Co., a pot shop in Albuquerque. The visit came as April 1 marks the first day of recreational marijuana sales in the state of New Mexico.

In 2021, Lujan Grisham demanded a special session to ram through the legal weed bill after the proposal failed in the regular session. 

The law, which the Governor touted as an economic booster, will only bring in a meager $28 million annually, according to the Legislative Finance Committee, includes a 12% excise tax, which will ultimately be passed down to the consumer. This could create an incentive for drug cartels to make big profits off of cheaper products due to the illicit substance being cheaper than that which can be bought over the counter.

Weed dispensaries across the state have already been broken into ahead of the April 1 scheduled opening, with fears of more of this type of behavior ramping up in weeks ahead as legal weed is now widespread across New Mexico.

According to Matt Narvaiz of the Albuquerque Journal on Friday, “@GovMLG makes an appearance at @everestnm’s Uptown location in Albuquerque. Today is the first day of adult-use sales in New Mexico.”

Despite concerns in ramming through the recreational weed bill in the 2021 Legislative Session, the consequences of the hastily passed law will reveal themselves in areas such as public safety, with traffic accidents and DUI arrests likely to go up, not to mention increased illegal drug activity.

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National media calls out MLG over massive failures

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On Thursday, pro-energy group Power The Future’s Executive Director Daniel Turner joined the Fox Business Network to discuss Democrats’ failed policies that have resulted in massive inflation and historically high gas prices that hurt the poorest Americans the most.

Front and center in Turner’s criticism was scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who is now trying to plug the gaping political hole she and her allies created with $250 checks to people as another government handout. This proposal will be considered in an upcoming special session anticipated to start on April 5th.

Turner said, “You’ll notice in all of these proposals, they never include anything to increase our supply, which is the only real and secure, and stable way to lower prices down.”

“And this example of New Mexico… the governor there — Michelle Lujan Grisham. She’s in trouble, and it’s an election year.” 

“Her state had one of the worst recoveries coming out of COVID; they have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. She imposed mask mandates longer than, I believe, almost every other state other than the city of Washington, D.C.”  

“And so this is a political gesture. This is trying to tell the constituents, ‘Hey, ignore the fact that I have driven the state into the ground. Maybe if I throw more government money at you, I can get your vote come November.’” 

“We are tired of these politicians proposing solutions that don’t solve the problem. They just exacerbate the problem and give them something to run in November.” 

In response to Turner’s appearance, the Republican Party of New Mexico wrote, “​​@GovMLG gets called out on @FoxBusiness over her Band-Aid response to high gas prices.”

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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.

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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!”

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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.

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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.

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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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Lujan Grisham calls special session after vetoing junior money

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After angering Democrats and Republicans over a veto of junior money that would have gone to projects such as funding for the Special Olympics, senior centers, and helping solve child abuse cases, Gov. Lujan Grisham has called for a special session starting on April 5. 

Once a formal proclamation comes out from Lujan Grisham on the special session, all legislative candidates and legislators will be banned from fundraising throughout the conclusion of the special session.

The scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Governor tried to cover her bases by saying the special sessions about gas prices. “As prices remain high nationwide, it is clear that we must act swiftly to deliver more relief to New Mexicans,” claimed Lujan Grisham in a news release.

“It is our responsibility to do what we can to ease that burden,” she concluded, despite having killed 40% of small businesses and leading New Mexico to the highest unemployment rate in the nation. She also supported a proposal that would result in a 35 to 50 cents-per-gallon gas tax on the poor.

Lujan Grisham said she was “unconvinced” the distribution of more than $50 million for projects across the state “upholds principles of fiscal responsibility.” This comes after she signed a mammoth $8.5 billion budget that included millions in funding for the Green New Deal, anti-gun programs, and taxpayer-funded “free” college.

“Given this is an election year, a potential battle over the bill between the heavily Democratic Legislature and Lujan Grisham, also a Democrat, could have caused some political fallout,” wrote the Santa Fe New Mexican.
It is unclear if the special session will include a backdoor voting bill that would appear to make New Mexico elections unsecured. But the Piñon Post is on high alert for any developments regarding a pro-voter fraud measure. 

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