Martin Heinrich is the odds-on favorite to win the Democratic nomination for the US Senate seat about to be vacated by Jeff Bingaman. But Hector Balderas figures to make it a real race … and one that could very well go down to the wire come November of 2012. On Wednesday (July 6) the state [...]

The Capitol Hill publication Roll Call has come out with an interesting story on Heather Wilson. Among some of the tidbits from the story that says Wilson — who is running to replace the retiring Jeff Bingaman in the US Senate — “sounds like a tea partyer”: The former Congresswoman, who ran on her national [...]

The Democratic polling group Public Policy Polling (PPP) has come out with another survey of New Mexico voters and Susana Martinez comes out a big winner while former governor Bill Richardson’s numbers are “about as bad as they could possibly be.” New Mexico has been identified by PPP as one of seven swing states in [...]

Former Albuquerque mayor Marty Chavez is running for Congress; but former Lt. Governor Diane Denish says she isn’t. Chavez officially announced his candidacy for the soon-to-be-vacated seat of Rep. Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico), who is resigning to run for the US Senate seat now held by Jeff Bingaman. Chavez released a slickly-produced video in conjunction [...]

The rap on Heather Wilson as she tries to take the Republican nomination in the fight to replace the soon-to-be-vacated US Senate seat of Jeff Bingaman is that she’s not a true, dyed-in-the-red conservative. (You can click here to a video interview I did with her a couple months ago about that.) One of her [...]

Interesting story in this morning’s Albuquerque Journal. Rep. Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) spoke to the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce yesterday (June 20) and said he’d like to see the federal corporate tax rate reduced from the current 35 percent to something in the “mid-teens.” In addition, Heinrich said he’s in favor of a “corporate [...]

Back in 2008, Tom Udall and Steve Pearce faced off in a nasty battle for one of New Mexico’s two US Senate seats in which Udall assailed Pearce as a pro-industry zealot who would turn back environmental progress and Pearce went after Udall as a die-hard liberal out of touch with working New Mexicans. Since [...]

Anthony Weiner has a New Mexico political connection dating back to last fall’s election. The embattled New York congressman donated $1,000 to fellow Democratic House of Representatives colleague Harry Teague. It didn’t do Teague much good, though. He lost in his re-election bid to Republican Steve Pearce in the 2nd Congressional District race by 11 points. Back [...]

With John Sanchez entering the race for the Republican nomination for the soon-to-be vacant US Senate seat occupied by Jeff Bingaman, we waited for the respective reactions from New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez as well as Heather Wilson, who will be Sanchez’ chief rival in the GOP race. We’ll start with Wilson, who has a [...]

Lt. Governor John Sanchez made it official Tuesday morning (May 24). He’s running for Jeff Bingaman’s soon to be vacated seat in the US Senate. “It would be immoral to watch the federal government keep spending more money than it’s taking in,” Sanchez told Capitol Report New Mexico. “That’s why I’m announcing my candidacy.” The [...]