Myra Ellen Jenkins would be happy she is not alive now. There is such a thing as living too long. I wrote in the 1980’s about her involvement as New Mexico state historian in the first controversy over the historic obelisk in the center of the Santa Fe Plaza. It was all about a word. […]
Category Archives: New Mexico Politics
The Oneness of New Mexico. Legislative, Executive, Judicial: unified! Politics and Government: same-same.
A UNM UNDERGRADUATE named Federico Antonio Reade called me in Santa Fe in the fall of 1980 asking to record my recollections of the Rio Arriba County Court House Raid — a northern New Mexico rebellion that already was fading beneath a wash of scholarly interpretation. I had been the only journalist (and the only
By Larry Joseph Calloway Jack M. Campbell / The autobiography of New Mexico’s first modern governor: as told to Maurice Trimmer with Charles C. Poling, University of New Mexico Press, 2016. I was lucky to arrive in Santa Fe before its style, real estate and cultural conflicts went commercial and while Jack
If Republicans are going to take advantage of Democratic disaffection, they will need to lure Hispanic voters. George W. Bush knew this. New Mexico Republicans know this. The problem is that damned Arizona.
She sat with the ex governors, a woman among men, a Republican among (mostly) Democrats, blonde in New Mexico, demure, and the audience applauded. She fought cancer, sexism, political opportunists, and never lost site of ethics and public service.
I had no idea Bill Clinton would be there, but when he showed up I realized the story Bruce King told was true. Those early-riser breakfasts meant something.
They said Emilio Naranjo could raise the dead and make them go to the polls on election day, which was only partly true.
Heather Wilson was nearly defeated by her Democratic challenger, Patricia Madrid, who said the Congresswoman “was not doing her job,” regarding Mark Foley. What was her job, anyway?
Recuse! Recuse! If the new Republican judicial puritans go any further, the entire judicial system will be disabled. Except for corporate lawyers, of course.