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Vermont: O'Keefe an Exposure Artist

James O'Keefe

Breitbart - The video, a sequel to O'Keefe's "Primary of the Living Dead" in New Hampshire, shows a Veritas agent entering various voting places around the state of Vermont, giving a different name each time. Each time, he is given a ballot without showing an ID, to his disbelief.

In the video, the agent repeatedly requests (but does not take) a Republican primary ballot. As he explained to Breitbart.com: "We wanted to remind viewers this is not a partisan issue. This is a situation wherein anyone -- Republican or Democrat -- can exploit the system."
The new video follows in the wake of a highly-politicized media attack on Mr. O’Keefe after his exposure of voter fraud in New Hampshire. Those videos resulted in calls from the left for O’Keefe’s arrest. However, the videos soon resulted in the New Hampshire State Senate passing a new bill requiring voter ID.

O'Keefe's new video from Vermont could not be more timely, coming the day after the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division blocked a Texas photo ID requirement for voters--to the applause of the American Civil Liberties Union, which claimed that the law was “discriminatory” against “Latinos, African-Americans, elderly citizens, and others.”

As the Project Veritas video shows, the current system in Vermont discriminates against actual legal voters, who must face the prospect of disenfranchisement by those who would vote in their stead illegally, or have their votes cancelled out by those voting illegally in place of deceased voters who have yet to be removed from the rolls. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Voter Fraud, Extortion Arrest Count: 8

NMPolitics - Two more Sunland Park city officials were arrested and charged Monday in the alleged extortion plot aimed at getting an opponent of Daniel Salinas to drop out of last week’s election.
In addition, the criminal complaints against former Sunland Park City Councilor Angelica Marquez and city spokesman Arturo Alba paint the most comprehensive picture yet of a wide-ranging extortion plot investigators allege involved several city officials. Those officials allegedly attempted to get Gerardo Hernandez to drop out of the race by making a video of him getting a lap-dance and threatening to release it publicly.
Hernandez lost last week’s race to Salinas but he plans to appeal, saying extortion and voter fraud tainted the election. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Huge Drug Seizure in Gallup

Gallup – More than two million dollars worth of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and hashish were seized at the Gallup port of entry by the Motor Transportation Police.
On the evening of March 11th, a truck driven by an Illinois man en-route from California to Kentucky was selected randomly for a safety inspection at the Gallup port of entry. During the safety inspection, inspectors and officers discovered 428 pounds of marijuana, 170 pounds of cocaine, 8 pounds of heroin, 1.1 pounds of hashish and 2 bottles of hash oil hidden in both the trailer and tractor.

The driver and illicit cargo were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration for further investigation.

Governor Leads Drunk Driving Fight

Susana Martinez

Governor Susana Martinez today launched the St. Patrick’s Holiday Mini Superblitz, a statewide collaborative enforcement effort targeting drunk drivers in New Mexico. The Governor was joined by Transportation Secretary Alvin Dominguez, Public Safety Secretary Gorden Eden, Sen. Lynda Lovejoy (D-Crownpoint), Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), and other law enforcement officials involved in combating DWI.
The St. Patrick’s Holiday Superblitz begins March 14th and will run daily through March 19th, 2012. The Superblitz includes an increase in law enforcement efforts statewide and features an ad campaign showing the impact of alcohol and the dangerous consequences of driving while impaired.

For the second year in a row, the legislature failed to act on proposed bills that would have cracked down on repeat DWI offenders, helping to take dangerous drivers off the roads and dangerous weapons out of their hands. Before the recent legislative session, Governor Martinez announced bi-partisan support for measures that would have increased penalties for repeat offenders, seized vehicles from individuals after a second DWI offense, and made felony DWI count when courts sentence a habitual offender. The bill died in the legislature.

Courtesy of Conservative Daily News

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Four Firefighters Awarded Medal of Valor

KOB TV - The Albuquerque Fire Department honored four members who went into a chaotic situation to save the lives of people from a fight that broke out January 1 in Downtown Albuquerque.

It was a wild start to 2012. Fights broke out in the middle of the street as the bars closed early New Year's morning. One man was shot on Central Avenue and when the Albuquerque Fire Department Engine 2 arrived on scene, it went from wild to worse. AFD firefighter 2nd Class Brett Rohrig was one of the first responders to arrive.

"Approaching the scene and the first cluster of fire. Pow-pow-pow went off," Rohrig explained.

AFD Lt. Matthew Sanchez was in charge of Engine 2. "It was total chaos, one of those things anybody in the fire department…instead of running away, they would all react."

Instead of moving away, they went toward the gunfire. That is when a second round of shots rang out. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Thornburg Executives Charged With Fraud

KOB TV - Federal regulators have charged three executives of what was once the nation's second-largest mortgage company with civil accounting fraud.
The Securities and Exchange Commission says the now-defunct Thornburg Mortgage Inc., which was based in Santa Fe, N.M, aimed to conceal disastrous conditions as the housing market collapsed and the financial crisis loomed.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., the SEC says the three executives conspired to overstate Thornburg's income by more than $400 million in 2007. It says Thornburg was facing a "severe liquidity crisis" in early 2008 and its lenders were demanding payments the company wasn't able to meet. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Swickard: Starting a group to restore kindergarten

Commentary by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. - Five rules of education: first engage their curiosity and then give them the tools to satisfy that curiosity. While doing so students must enjoy the passage of time. All curricular and instructional experiences must be correct for their brain development and students must retain their basic human dignity at all times. Michael Swickard

There is a great evil in our schools perpetuated for political rather than educational reasons. Many who embrace this evil are good people not realizing the harm they cause. Namely, we no longer treat young students just entering our schools humanely. Specifically, kindergarten students are treated inappropriately for their age.
We must band together to restore the humanity to kindergarten. It will take our voices and feet. First, it takes seeing the problem. The Swickard Axiom: never use a political solution for a non-political problem, especially in education. Read column

Angry customers result in 'informal complaint' against Sprint

From the Carlsbad Current-Argus - By Stella Davis, Current-Argus Staff Writer - CARLSBAD — Frequent dropped calls and intermittent or no service for days at a time have recently caused Sprint cellular phone customers to vent their frustration with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission's Consumer Relations Division., PRC director of consumer relations, said his agency has received more than 100 complaints from Sprint customers in Roswell, Hobbs, Artesia and Carlsbad. He said enough complaints have been received to warrant the lodging of an informal complaint against the wireless carrier."Sprint has had problems with its cell towers, and customers have had problems since November to the present," Williamson said. "We have received quite a few complaints. By filing an informal complaint, we hope Sprint customers will get their service restored quicker, or if not, they should be given a credit on the bill for the month they experienced the outage." Williamson said Sprint is not advertising its willingness to give a credit to area customers who lost service. However, if they call Sprint or the PRC, customers are promised a credit on their next bill, based on the date and length of the outage. Read more

Regulatory commission puts Xcel Energy power plant on fast track

From the Alamogordo Daily News - By Milan Simonich - SANTA FE -- Xcel Energy's request to build a $16.4 million power-generating plant in Quay County is on a fast track. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission voted 5-0 Tuesday to gear the project for approval in as little as 60 days, in all likelihood bypassing an analysis by a hearing examiner. Commission Chairman Patrick Lyons pressed to move the project forward as fast as possible, saying it would solve a problem that had on occasion paralyzed the small city of Tucumcari. Lyons, R-Clovis, said Tucumcari now has no backup generating system. At times of peak demand for power on Xcel's grid across eastern New Mexico, Tucumcari has been left without electricity for up to six hours at a time, Lyons said. "You can't pump gas. You can't transact business in any store. It shuts the town down," Lyons said. The new plant would provide 23 megawatts of standby electricity for Tucumcari, which is served by a single transmission feed.. Read more

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