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Lujan Grisham could call special session to save her hide after unpopular veto

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More reports are confirming that scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham could call a special session of the New Mexico Legislature to pass an amended junior funding bill after she vetoed the one passed earlier this year by unanimous Senate and House votes.

According to New Mexico Senate Pro-Tem Mimi Steward (D-Bernalillo), the special session could also include measures to alleviate the state’s gas taxes, despite Lujan Grisham and Stewart supporting a bill for two years in a row that would have increased the cost of gasoline anywhere from 35 to 50 cents per gallon.

“We are looking at providing some sort of cost-of-living, cost-of-transportation rebate,” Stewart told the Santa Fe New Mexican.

The Lujan Grisham-vetoed junior funding bill included funding for the Special Olympics, rural economic development, investments in senior centers, food banks, acequias, and equipment to solve child abuse cases. Democrats and Republicans responded with fury after she vetoed the commonsense bill.

Now, Stewart claims the bill can be “fixed” to accommodate Lujan Grisham. “She has brought up problems in the bill, and we are trying to determine if we agree with those,” the Senate Pro-Tem said.

Nora Sackett, the Governor’s press secretary, told the New Mexican, “The governor is committed to prioritizing transparency and accountability in making fiscal decisions, and we are optimistic that we will be able to move forward in partnership with the Legislature in ensuring taxpayer dollars are responsibly spent for the benefit of New Mexicans.” 

Lujan Grisham faces fierce opposition as she seeks another term despite her multiple scandals. A special session would mean a fundraising ban for Lujan Grisham and all legislative candidates, which will not help her in her quest to seek funds to win reelection. State Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Doña Ana), “There’s concern about the political optics of [an extraordinary session] in an election year.”

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MLG ‘conspiring’ to ram pro-voter fraud bill through the backdoor: Report

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According to a report from the New Mexico House Republican caucus, Democrats and scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham are “conspiring” to ram through the embattled governor’s pro-voter fraud bill through the backdoor. 

“According to credible sources, House and Senate Democrats are now in secret negotiations with the Governor to convene a special session. After facing the embarrassment of a historic veto override in a legislature-led extraordinary session, the Governor has convened with Democrats, without public input, to garner the support of enough Democrats to end their pursuit of an extraordinary session,” wrote the Caucus.

“Instead, she will call a special session and the unhappy Democrats will re-introduce the Junior Appropriations Bill, which she will now sign, in order to avoid having her veto overridden and public [acknowledgment of Democrats’] loss in confidence of the administration.”

The report concludes, “In addition to addressing the Governor’s veto of the Junior Appropriations Bill, secret discussions are taking place to revive the controversial election code changes and hydrogen hub legislation that were defeated just weeks ago.”

The Junior Appropriations Bill had $50 million in projects carefully selected by each legislator and funded things such as the Special Olympics, senior centers, vehicles for law enforcement, and tools to solve child abuse cases. Lujan Grisham flatly vetoed the entire bill, to the ire of both Republicans and Democrats.

“It is obvious that Lujan Grisham doesn’t believe that she can win re-election without changing our election laws just months before New Mexican voters are set to decide if she has done a good enough job to stay in office,” said House Republican Whip Rod Montoya (R-Farmington). 

The pro-voter fraud bill that failed in this year’s legislative session included provisions such as expanded use of ballot drop boxes, mail-in votes being accepted one week after an election, giving third parties backchannel access to voting data, among other measures. It died in the Senate in the final hours of the session due to a filibuster by Sen. William Sharer (R-San Juan).

Montoya said, “It is time for the governor and Democrat leaders in the House and Senate to stop the secret backroom dealing. Their actions reek of the corruption and politics New Mexicans have grown tired of.”

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Dems turn on MLG after she vetoes entire special projects bill

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Earlier this week, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, vetoed millions in funding for small projects in each legislator’s district. Some of these projects included funds for the Special Olympics, senior centers, food banks, acequias, equipment to solve child abuse cases, and more. 

The bill, which each legislator worked on to provide funding to their individual districts, impacts those who counted on the funding to help New Mexico families. The Governor’s veto could have been in retaliation for the Legislature not passing many of her left-wing policies, such as a 35 to 50 cents-per-gallon gas tax, a radical pro-voter fraud bill, anti-gun measures, and more. Democrats and Republicans are now plotting a potential extraordinary session of the Legislature, which would take three-fifths of the lawmakers in each chamber to support it.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reported, “[T]here is “great concern” in the Senate Democratic caucus over the governor’s veto of the so-called junior bill — which would fund an array of initiatives across the state in a year when the state expects record-high revenues — a spokesman for the Senate Majority Office said Democrats would be meeting soon to discuss their options.” 

Rep. Patricia Lundstrom (D-Gallup), the chair of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee, said she was “incredibly disappointed” in the governor’s veto of the junior bill. “Those were all very good projects, both on the House and the Senate side, and I hope we do something about it,” she said.

Lujan Grisham erroneously claimed the projects in the bill were not properly vetted, which was a reason for her veto.

“If they hadn’t been vetted, how would [the governor] know that?” Lundstrom asked. “C’mon now. Give me a break. … I think legislators know what’s best in their own darn communities, and they should be able to fund some of those smaller projects.”

She added, “There are very specific guidelines that are given to the members before they put the request in. There is absolutely vetting and guidance on this. It’s not just throwing a dart at a dartboard.”

Rep. Derrick Lente, (D-Sandia Pueblo), said, “I don’t understand why the political fight would want to be taken.” He supports overriding Lujan Grisham’s veto. 

Even far-left Rep. Roger Montoya (D-Velarde) blasted Lujan Grisham, who endorsed him, for her betrayal of the people. 

“As an unpaid legislator, my team and I drove thousands of miles over the last year, met with leaders from every community that I represent in District 40 — a district that spans 6,000 square miles — and together we identified programs and needs where junior money would have significant and immediate impacts to enrich the lives of my constituents,” he said.

He added, “$360,000 of junior funding that my communities were counting on are gone in the stroke of a pen.”

“It is astonishing to see how weak this Governor has become over the last year,” said House Republican Whip Rod Montoya (Farmington).  “Democrat members of the Legislature were at her beck and call for three years and are now willing to, in an unprecedented manner call themselves into a special session, during the Governor’s first term, to override her vetoes. We typically only see actions like this when dealing with a lame duck Governor who no longer holds sway over their political party.”

Now, as the walls are closing in on Lujan Grisham, her press secretary Nora Sackett claimed in an email to the New Mexican, “The governor’s responsibility is to ensure that New Mexico’s investments directly and meaningfully benefit New Mexicans while maintaining fiscal responsibility, given the once-in-a-generation revenue we have available.”

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Lujan Grisham signs radical $8.5 billion Democrat budget into law

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On Wednesday, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the massive $8.5 billion budget passed by House Democrats and a handful of Republicans which funded over $10 million for the “Green New Deal,” $75 million for “free” (taxpayer-funded) college, over $300,000 for anti-gun programs, and more. The budget is the largest ever passed in the history of New Mexico.

Lujan Grisham said while signing the mammoth budget, “This budget makes transformative investments exactly where they’re needed: from historic raises for New Mexico educators and growing the country’s most expansive tuition-free college program to creating a new fund to hire public safety officers and unprecedented funding to fight food insecurity.”

She added, “We are taking full advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to strategically and meaningfully build upon our progress to lift up every New Mexico family.”

Also included in the budget, according to a summary of amendments to the bill from the Senate Finance Committee, are massive increases in funding to already bloated state agencies. Those include, “12 percent for Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, and 16 percent for the Environment Department.”

The budget also “creates new offices to address climate change and regulate cannabis (marijuana), and enforce regulatory duties of the oil conservation division.” These positions will support anti-energy “climate change” policies while promoting the use of recreational drugs.

The far-left budget increases the Governor’s socialist free daycare program by over $15.3 million in taxpayers’ dollars.

The analysis of the bill further notes that with the Economic Development Department, the budget addresses “the agency’s top priorities, such as adding an additional $1 million in recurring job training incentive program (JTIP) funding, filling vacancies in the film department, creating a justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion office and expanding the number of regional representatives available to local communities.” The creation of a “justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion office” is the propagation of Critical Race Theory (CRT) into the state’s framework.

According to the Albuquerque Journal:

Lujan Grisham also vetoed several references to “public health orders” issued by her administration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, though she left intact funding for the State Fair and other entities negatively impacted by the pandemic.

In an executive message to lawmakers, the Democratic governor said some of the vetoed language sought to unlawfully intrude into the executive branch’s managerial duties.

The “Republicans” who voted with the far-left Democrats on the budget in the House include Gail Armstrong (Magdalena), Brian Baca (Valencia), Rachel Black (Alamogordo), Jack Chatfield (Tucumcari), Kelly Fajardo (Tome-Adelino), Joshua Hernandez (Rio Rancho), T. Ryan Lane (Aztec), Bill Rehm (Albuquerque), Luis Terrazas (Bayard), and Jane Powdrell-Culbert (Corrales). Fajardo is not seeking reelection while Black and Powdrell-Culbert face primary challenges. The primary election will be on June 7, 2022.

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MLG’s Supreme Court tosses citizen grand jury petitions

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New Mexicans from three counties, Chaves, Eddy, and Lea, filed citizen grand jury petitions last year against scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s misuse of emergency powers during the pandemic.

After Lujan Grisham, in her official capacity, used taxpayer-funded lawyers demanded in November the New Mexico Supreme Court strike the petitions down, that’s exactly what it did. The Court, which is made up of 4 out of 5 judges appointed by Lujan Grisham, claimed the signatures were invalid. They claimed the Governor’s actions were “lawful, noncriminal” activities.

Justices C. Shannon Bacon, David K. Thomson, Julie J. Vargas, and Briana Zamora were all appointed by Lujan Grisham, with Chief Justice Michael E. Vigil being supported by Lujan Grisham. All these jurists are Democrats.

State Sen. David Gallegos (R-Eunice) said to the Albuquerque Journal following the ruling, “They never touched on any of the real issues in the case.” He continued, “The courts aren’t willing to listen to New Mexicans.”

“There’s a lot of people who are very irritated about where we are.”

During Lujan Grisham’s scandal-ridden tenure, she extended the emergency orders first enacted in March of 2020 more than 30 times.

The Governor’s emergency orders resulted in at least 40% of small businesses in New Mexico closing, long breadlines to get food and basic goods over the holidays due to capacity limits at grocery stores, restaurant and closures, among other measures seen by many New Mexicans as cruel.

It is not immediately clear if the individuals leading the push for the grand juries will appeal the ruling. This article will be updated when more information is available. 

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NM GOP rips Dems’ ‘weak’ convention in fiery statement

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On Saturday, the Republican Party of New Mexico blasted the Democrats’ “lovefest” convention held in Roswell, which included scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Lujan Grisham calling herself and Democrats “bada**” despite their failures in the state. 

Here is the NM GOP’s statement on the New Mexico Democrat convention:

This Convention was a weak affair with low turnout and empty seats, showing the waning support of the Governor and the Democratic Party. This lovefest Convention is nothing more than a ‘Democrat Makeover’—underneath the self-congratulations is a real sense of fear and nervousness. These Democrats know they’re in trouble. From Washington to the Roundhouse, progressive Democrats have inflicted pain on New Mexicans and destroyed our great state.

The Democratic Party is an organization that lacks direction. It will continue to promote progressives whose policies hurt New Mexicans year after year. It doesn’t matter who is on the Democratic slate in June. The Democrat members of Congress will blindly follow the disastrous, radical agenda of the Biden Administration that’s destroying America. Here at home, Gov. Lujan Grisham has failed New Mexicans and doesn’t deserve another term. Her progressive policies and authoritarian actions have ruined our state.

The list of her debacles is endless: 40% of our small businesses lost, tax increases, reckless spending, COVID rules (that she personally breaks) that have shattered our economy and stripped citizens of their freedoms, a failed education system, a continuing crime crisis, classrooms filled with untrained teachers, ignoring our border crisis and her call to eliminate our vital oil and gas industry.  This recent legislative session speaks volumes, as the Governor’s wish list went down in defeat. New Mexicans know all this, and voters will make the right decision and boot her out of office in November.

The Democrats are again showing New Mexico their propensity to allow voter fraud. As part of the Convention, people will be voting by phone, absentee ballot and electronically over five days. That’s hardly a secure process.  And why would it take more than a week to count ballots?

The Democrats’ convention was marked by hypocrisy, unsecured elections, and many protesters outside picketing against the Democrats’ agenda.

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Dem convention: MLG calls herself a ‘bada**,’ breaks self-imposed mask mandate

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Democrats’ 2022 convention, being held this year in Roswell, might just be as fraud-ridden as New Mexico’s regular elections, with the leftists opting for letting their attendees get in the event “virtually” while they can mail absentee ballots for their candidates of choice. 

According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, delegates to the Democrats’ convention have until Wednesday to mail their ballots, with the final results of convention winners being announced on March 13.

In contrast to the Republican convention held last weekend in Ruidoso which resulted in results being announced the day afterward, Democrats will just have to wait. 

According to the New Mexican report: 

Delegates will be able to vote through an electronic ballot or by phone until 9 p.m. Wednesday. From Thursday to Friday, Democratic Party staff will be “validating and curing ballots,” van Dijk wrote.

The following Saturday, a representative from each campaign will have the opportunity to observe ballot counting via Zoom “as is required in our rules,” she wrote. Results will be announced when the convention is called back to order March 13.

The convention crowds, according to attendees’ social media photos, appeared tiny, likely due to the Democrats’ forced jab mandate for all who decided to go. Vax cards were “required for entry.”

Also, Democrat Party of New Mexico Chairwoman Jessica Velasquez said, “All convention attendees are required to wear a face mask at all times.” According to photos from the event, many had broken the Democrats’ rules — including the Governor. 

Roswell’s newly elected far-left Democrat Mayor Tim Jennings, who previously served in the state Senate and voted for partial-birth abortion multiple times, spoke at the convention. He joked, “I get to be mayor on the day of all days: April Fools’,” according to Daniel Chacon of the New Mexican. 

Scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham took the stage with people holding “MLG” signs and wearing buttons with her signature loud cowboy boots that were passed out during the event, according to reports.

“It’s really good to see over the podium without a box and to see all of you in person, all together,” said Lujan Grisham. 

Lujan Grisham said, “Stand if you believe that we have the power to be our badass selves and win!”

Also during the convention, the Governor had a cringe-worthy dance with attorney general candidate Raúl Torrez.

Far-left state Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard noted how there are anti-MLG protesters outside, claiming in her speech, “We have security in the building today. We’ve got protesters outside because our governor — [Michelle Lujan Grisham] — dared to do the right thing and follow the science and keep us safe.” It is unclear what supposed science Lujan Grisham was following by forcibly masking children, closing down businesses, and making New Mexicans stand in bread lines to buy food over the holidays. Likely, many of those reasons are why protesters picketed the scandal-ridden Governor.

Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, Lt. Gov. Howie Morales, Roswell Mayor-elect Tim Jennings, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, and many others did not follow the Democrats’ mask mandate:

During Rep. Melanie Stansbury’s speech, she said, “When I ran to be your governor and won, I mean, sorry, your congresswoman.” She corrected herself, saying, “When I ran to be your congresswoman, I apologize …”

NOTE: Article photo via a screenshot of Daniel Chacon’s Twitter video.

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MLG signs socialist ‘free college’ bill costing taxpayers $75M annually

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On Friday, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed S.B. 140, which would create a mammoth $75 million per year recurring expense to the state’s taxpayers to fund “free college” through what is being called the “Opportunity Scholarship.”

The far-left bill, which does not include any limits on “free” tuition is forcing taxpayers to shell out even more money. And the merits required to receive the tuition are embarrassingly low, only requiring a 2.5-grade point average, which means students can get low grades and still have their tuition covered. 

“SB140 does not provide a semester or year limit on funding. Rather, the program allows funding up to 90 or 160 hours until the student completes an undergraduate degree or degrees,” analysis for the bill reads.

It should be noted that all representatives who voted for the Democrats’ far-left $8.5 billion budget voted for funding this “free” college initiative by passing the budget. Those representatives include Republicans, such as Gail Armstrong (Magdalena), Brian Baca (Valencia), Rachel Black (Alamogordo), Jack Chatfield (Tucumcari), Kelly Fajardo (Tome-Adelino), Joshua Hernandez (Rio Rancho), T. Ryan Lane (Aztec), Bill Rehm (Albuquerque), Luis Terrazas (Bayard), and Jane Powdrell-Culbert (Corrales).

According to the fiscal impact report for S.B. 140, “House Bill 2 as passed out of the Senate Finance Committee also contains $63 million in nonrecurring funding and $12 million recurring funding for the opportunity scholarship program. Altogether, that would leave the new opportunity scholarship fund with approximately $99.5 million.”

Lujan Grisham had a photo-op at Western New Mexico University in Silver City to sign the legislation, joined by far-left advocates of the fiscally irresponsible bill that is a slap in the face to people who paid their way through college without a socialist program’s help.

“Saddling students with insurmountable debt means they can’t start businesses, can’t buy houses; they don’t have real choices about their future,” claimed Lujan Grisham.

Republicans who voted for the actual free college bill include Reps. Gail Armstrong (Magdalena), Brian Baca (Valencia), Kelly Fajardo (Tome-Adelino), Jason Harper (Rio Rancho), and Luis Terrazas (Bayard). Those Republicans who were excused for the vote included Reps. Rebecca Dow (Truth or Consequences) and Joshua Hernandez (Rio Rancho). In the Senate, Republican Senators Bill Burt (Alamogordo), Crystal Diamond (Deming), Ron Griggs (Alamogordo), Gay Kernan (Hobbs), Mark Moores (Albuquerque), Cliff Pirtle (Roswell), and Joshua Sanchez (Grants) joined the radical Democrats in supporting the socialist free college bill.

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MLG joined by union boss, masked kids to sign teacher pay hike bill

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On Tuesday, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham joined American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union boss Randi Weingarten at Francis Xavier Nava Elementary School in Santa Fe to sign S.B. 1, a bill to increase teacher salaries.

The embattled governor and Weingarten were joined by children wearing masks as Lujan Grisham signed the pay hike, which will increase pay in the state’s three-tier licensure system to $50,000, $60,000, and $70,000. 

Weingarten has long been a controversial figure, who still believes children should be masked while at school until the transmission of the virus is “low enough” it hits zero. Her pandemic track record is also horrific. According to The Federalist: 

Weingarten’s pandemic track record is nothing but an advertisement for anti-classroom learning. From the beginning, it was Weingarten’s AFT PAC that funneled more than $1.6 million to pro-lockdown Democrats and left-wing organizations. At the beginning of April, many of the same Democrats who benefit from the unions’ political donations jammed Biden’s $1.9 [pandemic] spending plan through Congress with the hope that the funds would push schools to reopen. Biden’s spending plan, which was criticized by Republicans, allotted more than $129 billion to elementary, middle, and high schools to use in their reopening efforts, despite the 100 million unspent dollars already designated for school expenses like “cleaning and disinfecting” in the CARES Act. A few weeks later, 52 percent of K-12 districts were still not offering fully in-person classes for all of their students.

Weingarten’s AFT was just one of the hypocritical teacher’s unions that tried to hold taxpayers hostage by demanding more funding in exchange for giving children basic education.

Weingarten, who herself bucked the CDC’s guidelines, denied the CDC’s science. In a March 19, 2021 statement, AFT New Mexico denied the CDC’s science as “lacking” in the “totality” of the “safety strategy,” whatever that means. The union also denied the efficacy of the inoculation, claiming it is “not a silver bullet.”

During the lockdown, Lujan Grisham, emboldened by Weingarten and the teachers’ unions, shuttered schools, leaving many children without instruction whatsoever for months on end.

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Not satire: MLG to receive ‘hero’ award from Las Cruces film festival

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According to a report from the Las Cruces Sun-News, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, will receive the “Hero” award from the Las Cruces International Film Festival (LCIFF) for “her support of the state’s film and television industry.”

“[T]he award is in recognition of the growth the industry has experienced throughout the state and particularly in southern New Mexico since Lujan Grisham stepped into office in 2019,” the report notes.

Despite her hot mess of failures, including the limiting of the film industry due to her strict pandemic lockdown orders that crushed small businesses and commerce in the state, the LCIFF is choosing to honor the scandalous Governor who paid out $150,000 to a sexual assault accuser. 

According to the report, Lujan Grisham is in good company with the so-called “Hero” award, with radical leftists like ex-U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small previously winning the award.

During Lujan Grisham’s tenure, at least 40% of small businesses have closed and the film industry hit a standstill.
“The number of productions shot in New Mexico dropped to zero from an average of 34 productions a month during the first three months of 2020, according to data from the New Mexico Film Office,” New Mexico News Port notes.

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