- We will have a live blog that will go live before the polls close. From there, we will monitor the results and any other stories we see from the elections. Did I say we? Yes, I did. The fine folks here at the Santa Fe Reporter will be helping out with the live blog, and it will appear on both sites.
- You can also see me live on KNME for their election coverage. I will once again be at the blogger's table, which I'm assured is not the equivalent of the children's table at Thanksgiving. That will be on the air from 7 to 11 pm. The live blog will go as long as we need it to go. It should be a busy night.
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- In a classic New Mexico Telegram move, at the last minute I decided
- to create an election prediction contest
- . I'm not 100 percent sure it will work, but just choose who you think will win statewide races and key House races and you can win a fabulous prize: bragging rights. Free to join, all you need is a Google account. And at this point we all have Google accounts, right?
- A poll by Survey USA
- shows Tom Udall leads Allen Weh by 13 percent
- , though Weh led among early and absentee voters.
- The same poll found
- Susana Martinez has a large lead over Gary King
- , echoing recent polls.
- Early voting
- was down this year when compared to 2010
- . Absentee voting will also be way, way down.
- Speaking of those key House races,
- the Albuquerque Journal looked at each of them
- .
- Candidates
- kept the campaigning going through the election
- .
Republican Gov. Susana Martinez campaigned in southern New Mexico on the eve of the general election Tuesday, with stops in Hatch, Sunland Park and Mesilla. The incumbent wrapped up a 17-city tour that began last week. [...] Democratic challenger Gary King visited senior citizen centers in Santa Fe before heading to the party stronghold of Española in northern New Mexico and to Albuquerque for a stop at a labor union headquarters where supporters operated a phone bank to call voters.
- Now there's
- a lede from Milan Simonich
- :
If this wasn’t the least truthful election in state history, it was a contender.
- Simonich hits ProgressNow New Mexico, a progressive organization, and Advance New Mexico Now, a Republican Super PAC, for inaccurate information about candidates.
- The Deming Headlight
- spoke to Martinez ahead of the election
- .
- Bill Clinton
- taped a robocall for Gary King
- .
- State Rep. Emily Kane
- is being accused of breaking state campaign finance laws with donations of over $5,200 from a PAC run by Ben Ray Luján
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According to campaign finance reports, Luján's PAC, People For Ben, gave $6,000 to the reelection campaign of state Rep. Emily Kane, D-Bernalillo, between September and October. Such donations go beyond the state's campaign finance limits for political committees, which stipulate that they cannot give more than $5,200 to a single candidate during the general election.
- KOB
- spoke to Navajo voters about the delayed presidential election
- .
- A conservative super PAC is targeting Tom Udall
- in the final days (and in this case hours) of the election.
- Low turnout
- is likely in Santa Fe County
- .
- The Associated Press
- takes a race-by-race look at the New Mexico election
- .
- Political scientist Richard Fox
- speaks to VB Price on Insight New Mexico
- about the election.
- The US Department of Justice
- will be monitoring the polls in Cibola County again this year
- .
- APD is
- being criticized for moving those who lead troubled departments to new positions
- .
The Police Department is reassigning to new positions command staff who oversaw troubled units, a move that is drawing criticism from some activists and at least one elected leader.
- The city council
- voted to approve financial incentives to retain APD officers
- . City officials are worried that the police department could be understaffed soon.
- The Albuquerque city council
- will decide what to do with the $30 million originally earmarked for Tesla incentives
- .
- A federal judge
- questioned those on both sides of the debate over the constitutionality of Mora County's oil and gas drilling ban
- .
- Milan Simonich
- writes about a 91-year old woman who walked from Albuquerque to Santa Fe
- to protest the glut of money in political campaigns.
- The Farmington Daily-Times
- looks at the elections in San Juan County and Navajo Nation
- .
- A body found at Rio Grande Gorge
- was that of a Senate attendant
- who also worked as a bartender. Police say it looked like a suicide.
- KOB
- says the investigation into the Tierra Blanca Ranch abuse claims was stalled
- until KOB asked about it.
- Things
- are not looking good for Virgin Galactic taking off from Spaceport America any time soon
- .
The Spaceport won’t confirm any new delays, but experts predict it’s imminent.
“Probably an extra three to five years”, said Michael Blades, an aerospace analyst with Frost & Sullivan. “In order to get people back and forth, they need to show some sort of safety record, and there’s a whole process in order for that approval to happen.”- Robert Nott
- writes about the active shooter training in Santa Fe schools
- . The training is called, "Run, Hide and Fight."
- The mayor of Portales
- says there would be no conflict if she is chosen as the paid executive director of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority
- .
- Did you think October was warm in Albuquerque? It wasn't your imagination, it
- was the third-warmest October since Albuquerque began keeping records
- . In our South Valley house, we did not turn on the heater until Sunday night—November 2.
- The Deming Headlight
- looks at the temporary increase of inmates at the Luna County Detention Center
- after the closure of the Sierra County Detention Center.
- Santa Fe mayor Javier Gonzales
- announced plans to establish a city-owned power company
- .
- Smith's Food and Drug
- settled with a union and the two now have a signed contract
- .
- Santa Fe Brewing Company
- is going to open a taproom in Albuquerque
- .
- The Innovate ABQ board
- is being criticized for not having enough diversity
- .
- Winthrop Quigley
- writes about Innovate ABQ
Down in the weeds are the innovative people this district is supposed to attract. When I’ve spoken with them, they do not understand how the district is going to improve their lives. If the district becomes a source of talent they can hire or a source of financing, there might be some value there. The value of another downtown land development with a UNM campus attached is not obvious to them. They already have their favorite coffee shops.
If I were trying to win over these innovative and entrepreneurial people, I’d be working hard to understand their needs, wants and desires. This is, after all, a marketing problem. If you build an innovation district, you’d like to know what buttons to push to get people to come use it. At a minimum, I’d want people who look like the people I want living and working in the district to be deeply involved in my project at all levels, beginning at the board of directors level.
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