Far-left Democrat New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver is on the attack, trying to squash an attempt by private advocacy groups to put radical Democrat bills passed during the 2023 Legislative Session and signed by the governor on the ballot for referendum.
Bills attempted to be overturned via referendum include legislation trying local jurisdictions’ hands from regulating abortion, an expansion of school-based health centers pushing abortion and “gender-affirming care,” bills weakening New Mexico elections, a bill harboring criminal abortionists, and legislation expanding the “Human Rights Act.” Read more about the referendum petition project being organized by Better Together New Mexico here.
The Albuquerque Journal reported, “The Secretary of State’s office has directed county clerks not to provide voter lists to those pushing the repeal effort, and warned voters that current petitions circulating are not valid since they have not been approved.”
“In addition, Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat, said in a recent letter the bill blocking local anti-abortion ordinances from being enforced is exempt from repeal. That’s because, under her ruling, it meets a constitutional exemption for laws that provide for the ‘preservation of the public peace, health or safety” of the state,’” the report noted.
Toulouse Oliver wrote on Thursday, “Invalid referendum petitions are being circulated throughout the state to challenge laws passed during the 2023 #NMLEG. As of now, there are no valid referendum petitions in circulation in New Mexico. Check our website for more info.”
She gave a further update, adding, “Today the 13th District Court dismissed a lawsuit against our office, finding that the laws attempting to be put to referendum are exempted from the referendum process. This has been our position all along & is a win for the rule of law.”
“To date, the Secretary of State has not approved and certified, nor has the Attorney General signed, any referendum petitions submitted and none of the referendum petitions currently being circulated will be considered valid under the law to challenge laws passed during the 2023 Legislative Session,” the Secretary of State’s website reads.
However, according to Better Together New Mexico, a supposed setback in court was fake news.
“You may have read in the Journal or from the Secretary of State that we had a setback in court yesterday over the referendum project. That is inaccurate!” wrote the group.
“Ramona Goolsby filed a Verified Emergency Petition for Declaratory Judgment in the 13th Judicial district on April 11, 2023, against the Secretary of State which was very narrow in scope. There was NO ruling made on the merits of the case. Judge Noel’s dismissal has been set aside as of yesterday and the case has been reopened. There was a Request for Motion to Strike filed yesterday afternoon based on the non-conforming pleading filed by the Attorney General’s office. In addition, Ramona will file a judicial complaint against the judge today.”
“As always, there are concerns that partisan politics are alive and well in our courts since Judge Noel was appointed by Michelle Lujan Grisham in 2020. Keep the faith and keep working!”
Not once throughout Toulouse Oliver’s tenure has she approved a single referendum petition — making the process as difficult as possible to hold the government accountable.
However, litigation is likely coming amid the Democrat’s stonewalling, with groups already ready to take the matter to court.
Jodi Hendricks, the executive director of the New Mexico Family Action Movement, one of the groups leading the charge, “said the coalition supporting the repeal effort, which has received support from the state Republican Party, is ready for a court fight, if necessary,” as The Journal reported.
The eye are the light of the soul… Look into those eyes… See light or something pretty creepy?
NM if you do not open your eyes to the truth of the intentions behind democratic leadership, you will end up walking straight off the cliff by staying blindfolded, all while listening to false directions.
Peace!
Those to are as evil as well as stupid as anyone can get besides Biden.
Mario I have the feeling if I look in your eyes I will see 😵😵💫😵😵💫 somr real crazy!
Don’t be a jerk, you Pogue Demorat. Those two carpetbaggers are the same type of scum that is ruining the Country in DC. WHEN they look into your eyes, they see the back of your skull.
Mario you took the words right out of my mouth. These two look like devils…and what are we doing about it?
All I can
Amen, we are destined for hell in New Mexico.
Creepy to be sure.
I’m sick of the Democrats killing God’s children our Governor is going against God will
Amen, the so-called Catholics are taking our state into hell.
The SOS isn’t being truthful. She did approve these petitions. Infact she changed horses in mid stream on us. She approved one lay out, then decided she wanted something different. But we all know she just does as she pleases.
Our Governor is going against God will AND WILL BE PUNISHED
Two of the most evil women in leadership positions in New Mexico, Gov MLG and SOS Toulouse Oliver. All they want to do is kill babies and take our freedoms away. I don’t believe they legitimately won their last election, their values are so different from the New Mexicans I know. How do we deal with such corruption – throughout the legislature also? All they want to do is confuse, destroy, and kill children — all under the guise of ‘wokeness.’ the warning to them from the Bible is that it would be better for them to have a millstone tied around their necks and be thrown into the sea than to face God for harming one of His little ones.
How do these so-called Catholics send our state into hell??
Dru, that’s a damned good question. I call them CINO”s, i.e., Catholics In Name Only!
Toulouse-0liver seems to riding the Marxists horse and hoping it will get her elected governor. I think she’s a nasty piece of Soros funded work. Her goal is to always put herself first and the democrats second. What she never considers is the voter. She refuses to clean up the voter rolls and is a Katie Hobbs adherent when it comes to elections. There will never be free and fair elections while democrats are in power.
Look into their eyes. That is pure evil looking back at you. Two hardcore baby killing Satanists in charge.
Ain’t no stopping us now.
How many signatures do we have so far?
We don’t know yet. There are too many places collecting. Only God knows how many we have and He also knows what we need. We serve a big God, who has His own agenda. So, we keep doing what is right to fight this and remember we do not fight against flesh and blood (as hard as that is to remember!).
All of these comments are well and good but how can we get this information out to the people that elected them?
More of her her Amber Heard mentality…
Let’s go New Mexico. We’ve got this.
Just looking at both of them together makes me want to vomit…
Paul, check out the Better Together New Mexico site to see where the statewide campaign is on signatures. Unfortunately these laws will go into law this month. But by law, if we gather 72k statewide, that is enough to put them on the 2024 ballot for NM people to vote on. SOS would be breaking the law to keep them off from what I understand. Something she is good at, breaking the law.
People need to start rising up and forcing the hand of this rogue government. Have you read these bills? AWFUL !! Sick people wrote them. They call them “health bills” more like state sanctioned child castration, mutilation and killing of the unborn all WITHOUT parental consent. They must be stopped.
How do I sign the petition???
I believe that first illustration is referred to as a “coven”.
The two most hated women in New Mexico. At least I think they are women.