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• Guv OKs cutting college scholarship program, spares auditor

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  Gov. Bill Richardson signed today legislation that cuts $110 million from various state funds to help plug this year’s budget shortfall, but he vetoed a provision that would have taken more money from the state auditor. “Without the money, the auditor would not have been able to conduct effective audits,” a ...
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• Seneca on Obama Administration’s Latin Foreign Policy Woes

  
  latinopoliticsblog.com — Authority: 122
  The Obama Administration is plainly showing that its policy for South of the Border is equally as empty, indifferent and at times almost maladroit or inept as it has been for nearly a score of years. During last year’s campaign for the White House, Candidate Obama was judged to have a refreshing view of the world ...
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• Consider the Source: Scarantino Busted on Exaggerated Claims on Denish Spending

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 157
  Original Author:  Democracy for New Mexico Ive held back on discussing this weeks wingnuttery  attacks by James Scarantino -- who writes for a blog paid for by the right-wing Rio Grande Foundation -- on Lt. Governor Diane Denish . Scarantino asserted in a post this ...
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• Obama’s ten best, and ten worst, moves of the year revealed (Part-IV)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov.5 (ANI): The Politico web site has spoken to a dozen political insiders and pulled together a list of President Barack Obama’s ten best, and ten worst, moves of the year.Ten Worst: 6. No earmarks? Well, maybe just a few . . .billion Obama campaigned hard against earmarks, but in March, he signed [...]
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• Denish, running for governor, steps into budgetary fray

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  Lt. Gov. Diane Denish (Photo by Heath Haussamen) Anyone interpreting Republican victories in New Jersey and Virginia’s governor’s races Tuesday as a harbinger of a GOP upset next year in New Mexico, Lt. Gov. Diane Denish has a ready reply. “I’ve lived in New Mexico all my life. I’ve never known New ...
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• GOP Gov hopefuls attack Denish over Richardsons "inevitable" tax increase comment

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 157
  Original Author:  LP Republican gubernatorial candidates are attacking Democratic candidate Diane Denish over Governor Bill Richardsons comment yesterday that tax increases are "inevitable" during Januarys legislative session. "Its hard to know which is worse: having the ...
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• We Wish Plouffe Would Have Taken Pictures

  
  FamousDC — Authority: 596
  From page 61 of "The Audacity To Win":"In what appeared to be an approximation of exercise, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico was shuffling -and that may be too kind of a word-along the motel sidewalk in a velour sweat suit…"We aren’t very good at research here at FamousDC, so this video is about as ...
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• GOP governor hopefuls attack Denish over ‘inevitable’ tax increases

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  Perhaps inevitably, Republican gubernatorial candidates are attacking Democratic candidate Diane Denish over Governor Bill Richardson’s statement that tax increases are “inevitable ” during January’s legislative session. “It’s hard to know which is worse: having the Richardson-Denish administration give ...
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• Tax increases are “inevitable” Richardson says

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen) The only things Gov. Bill Richardson seemed certain about Monday were that tax increases are needed when state lawmakers convene in January to address perhaps New Mexico’s most serious financial challenge in decades. Some predict a $1 billion shortfall when state ...
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• Dem Senator: Denish cant win

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 157
  Original Author:  LP A Democratic Senator, Tim Eichenberg, will be finding himself in a few Republican press releases in coming days, Im pretty sure. He told a group of people at a weekly event with Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones that he doesnt believe ...
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• Legislative leaders urge Guv to not cut Medicaid

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  Acknowledging the Governor’s opinion that their budget fix may not protect the state’s medicaid program from cuts “may very well be correct,” New Mexico legislative leaders delivered  a letter to Gov. Bill Richardson today, urging him not to make cuts to Medicaid, the program that provides health care ...
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• Legislators take to new media to push back at Richardson

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  Governor Bill Richardson recently rediscovered his blog , using it as a way to answer criticism from the state legislature—and to take a few swipes at the media—but now individual legislators are also taking to new media to push back at the governor. State Rep. Brian Egolf cited a blog post by the Santa Fe ...
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• State Reps. take to Twitter to criticize Richardson response to special session budget fixes

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 157
  Original Author:  LP While Governor Bill Richardson has recently rediscovered his blog and used it as a way to push back at criticism from the state legislature, and to take a few swipes at the media, individual legislators are also taking to new media to push back at criticism ...
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• UPDATED: Firm faces big fine, possible loss of contract, state says

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  A firm that took over management of the state’s behavioral health care system July 1 has not paid millions of dollars to nonprofits and other companies for work they have completed, the state said Friday. As a result, the firm, OptumHealth New Mexico , faces a fine of a more than $1.4 million for non-payment and a ...
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• Get ready for challengers, educators’ union warns state lawmakers

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  Reps. John Heaton and Ben Lujan (with Nick Salazar) in a committee meeting during the 2009 special session. New Mexico state lawmakers struggled to pass a mid-year state budget fix last week, but in a possible sign of how difficult things may become politically, at least one public employee union is already throwing ...
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• Note to the Democratic Party

  
  Mario Burgos — Authority: 420
  With Heather Wilsons announcement yesterday that she will not run for Governor in 2010, there is only one thing that is crystal clear about the gubernatorial race... The Democratic Party of New Mexico has a messaging problem : “Regardless of who emerges from the Republican primary, the lack of experience in ...
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• CDR Financial indicted in bid-rigging probe

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  CDR Financial Products , the company that was at the center of the scandal that cost Gov. Bill Richardson the U.S. commerce secretary post, was indicted along with some of its employees Thursday as part of a national probe into bid rigging in the municipal bond market. The 39-page, nine-count indictment charges the ...
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• AFSCME wants guv to veto 7.6 percent agency cuts

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  The government workers’ union is asking Governor Bill Richardson to veto the part of the recently passed budget bill that requires him to cut state agency budgets by  7.6 percent. ”Additional cuts of nearly 8 percent, which is closer to 10-12 percent because we are five months into the fiscal year, will deny ...
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• Gov. Richardson says budget bill would force him to cut Medicaid

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  Roundhouse When the state Legislature passed a major budget bill last week, lawmakers say they believed they were sparing Medicaid from any cuts, but now, Gov. Bill Richardson says implementation of House Bill 17 will force the him to include Medicaid in agency cuts. Richardson says the wording of the bill makes ...
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• Cuts could mean prison closures, prisoner release, Corrections chief says

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 599
  The New Mexico Womens Correctional Facility, Grants Two of New Mexico’s 10 prisons would be shuttered, hundreds of non-violent offenders released and dozens of people could lose their jobs if the state’s prisons were cut by 7.6 percent, Corrections Secretary Joe Williams said Wednesday. Williams’s ...
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