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

10 Comments / New Mexico, News, Politics / By John Block

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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MLG claims GOP ‘attacking our personal freedoms’ in desperate fundraising ploy

4 Comments / New Mexico, News, Politics / By John Block

Ahead of December special session for redistricting, which is rumored to begin on December 6, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is frantically sending out fundraising pleas to supporters asking for donations. During a special session of the Legislature, Lujan Grisham would be barred from fundraising, per state law.

So, the Lujan Grisham campaign has begun the desperate fundraising asks. Since Monday, November 8, the embattled governor has sent out nine fundraising emails, averaging at least one per day. The emails read anything from “December is coming” to generic “stop the GOP” messaging.

In one email, Lujan Grisham’s team writes, “Starting in early December, we won’t be able to fundraise AT ALL for three whole months because the New Mexico State Legislature is meeting for a special session.”

“If we fail to reach our $150,000 goal, New Mexico could flip red, just like Virginia did this month,” the campaign writes.

In one hilarious ask, the Lujan Grisham campaign wrote, “If the GOP flips New Mexico – just like they flipped Virginia this month – they could weaken our democracy and attack our personal freedoms. So, we need your immediate support to keep New Mexico blue.”

It is unclear what the campaign is referring to with “weakening our democracy” or “attacking our personal freedoms,” but the harsh mask and jab mandates the militant regime have instituted prove ironic for a campaign trying to claim it is a bastion of supposed “personal freedoms.”

In another fundraising ask sent by Lujan Grisham’s finance director called“Brandon,” he claims “voting rights to reproductive freedom is on the line.”

The desperate fundraising ploys appear just to be getting more desperate as December approaches. Still, there is no lack of irony in Lujan Grisham’s campaign emails, as her administration has mandated many anti-freedom edicts that are harming New Mexicans and permanently closed 40% of small businesses in the state.

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Gov. MLG threatens special session as early as Wednesday to ram through recreational pot bill

1 Comment / New Mexico, News, Politics / By John Block

Legislators worked into the wee hours of the morning on Saturday debating legislation, with many bills still bottlenecked on the House and Senate floor calendars as the end of the legislative session comes at 12:00 noon.

Much of the debate was on HJR 1, which seeks to raid the land grant permanent fund for “early childhood education,” better known as taxpayer-funded daycare.

Right after midnight, the House of Representatives voted on a proposal, S.B. 304, relating to voting district geographic data, which was amended on the floor to create an independent redistricting commission. The amended compromise bill between a bipartisan and Democrat-led proposal takes the power of redistricting away from the dark rooms of the Roundhouse and opens it up to the public in a fair, less partisan way. After a lively debate, the bill passed 64-2 with Rep. Eliseo Alcon (D-Cibola & McKinley) and Majority Leader Sheryl Stapleton (D-Bernalillo) voting against the bill.

In a previous committee, Alcon complained about an independent commission taking away representatives’ “rights” to redraw their own districts, saying, “I don’t think it’s our duty to give up our rights.” He did not like the idea of a seven-member commission making the decisions, not him. “If these seven people really want to be part of the redistricting, then they should run for our spots,” he said, adding, “I will be a solid no matter how you look at it,” despite the majority of people in the committee hearing in support of giving more power to the people.

Due to the bottleneck of radical Democrat legislation, it was revealed in the wee hours of the morning that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham intends to call a special session as early as Wednesday to ram through her extreme recreational marijuana bill, according to one representative.

The Albuquerque Journal confirmed this, with the Governor’s communications director Tripp Stelnicki saying that a special session could be called “sooner rather than later,” adding “there was a largely-agreed upon framework in place between the Governor’s Office and lawmakers.”

“Nobody wants to wait another year — it’s too close to being done,” said Stelnicki.

However, it doesn’t look like the Wagyu steak-eating Governor cares much about the political ramifications of her actions, despite a special session being “politically risky,” with a daily cost of around $50,000 per day, according to the Journal.

After it was revealed the Governor intends to call a special session, the New Mexico House Republicans wrote, “UNBELIEVABLE. After spending $2 million on a fence blocking YOU from the Roundhouse for a year- Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has FAILED to get her showpiece marijuana bill across the line. She now says she will call us back next week. Taxpayers, the Gov’s agenda is on your dime.”

Other bills are still stuck on the House and Senate calendars, including S.B. 11, the gas tax on the poor, S.B. 316 to harvest “gender” and “sexual identity” data from New Mexicans, and S.B. 230 instituting racism in state agencies and many other proposals, which as the clock ticks on look dead in the water.