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| Eric Griego |
We were conducting our first background check on State Senator Eric Griego. He is the Congressional District # 1 frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination. We were able to find a pretty good summary of him on the website dailykos.com which heartily endorsed him. Let’s see why. Below are a few excerpts of what the folks at
Daily Kos had to say about Griego:
Griego, a state senator and former city councilperson in Albuquerque, has received the strong enthusiastic endorsements of MoveOn.org, Democracy for America, Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Blue America PAC.....
The enviros are all aboard—Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, and Conservation Voters New Mexico, as well as much of labor—the Teamsters, CWA, AFSCME and several local unions....
Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, chair of the House Progressive Caucus, was effusive in his endorsement:
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"As State Senator, he took on the Big Oil companies and put middle-class workers first by passing a green jobs bill into law," Grijalva continued. "Eric is supported by leading progressive groups and major labor unions -- and he is the only candidate in the race to have a lifetime 100% rating from Conservation Voters New Mexico......
Holding this open seat will be critical to getting Rep. Nancy Pelosi her gavel back.
Daily Kos: Eric Griego Critical to Nancy Pelosi Getting Her "Gavel" Back
From abcnews.com -President Obama had a simple greeting for his New Mexico hosts when upon arriving at a Roswell airfield this afternoon: “I come in peace,” he said. The words – a playful reference to the famous 1947 Roswell UFO incident that continues to capture imaginations – could have as easily been directed to skeptics of his energy policy. Obama’s visit to an active oil field on federal lands was squarely aimed at countering criticism from the right over rising gas prices and claims that domestic oil production is declining on his watch. “We’ve quadrupled the number of operating oil rigs to a record high. More than 70 of those rigs are right here in this area,” Obama said in a speech before a ConocoPhillips rig, idled for the event. “In fact, business is so good that today the biggest problem is finding enough qualified truck drivers to move all the oil that’s coming out of these wells down to the refinery. Too much oil – that’s a good problem to have,” he said. Domestic oil production overall in the U.S. is at its highest level in the past eight years, according to the Energy Department. But production on federal lands was down 14 percent year-over-year in 2011, and overall remains 13 percent lower than it was in 2003. Still, Obama – who has made renewable energy a hallmark of his administration — insisted he’s not backing away from drilling or searching for more oil. “You wouldn’t know it from listening to some of these folks running for office, but producing more oil here in our own country has been, and will continue to be, a key part of our energy strategy,” Obama said. “We’re drilling all over the place,” he said. More News New Mexico
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