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NM-Gov: Wilson Won't Run

by: Crisitunity

Fri Oct 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM EDT


There was one Republican question mark left concerning the New Mexico gubernatorial race, and it was a fairly big one: former Rep. Heather Wilson, who gave up her seat for an unsuccessful Senate run. Yesterday, she announced that she won't run, saying that she enjoys her private sector work, and:

"The Governor of New Mexico has no significant national security role - an issue area that continues to be an important part of my life. Running for office and being Governor means setting these things aside."

That leaves well-regarded Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish a pretty clear path to the victory. The only Republicans in the race are pretty second-string: state Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones and Dona Ana County DA Susana Martinez.

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The daily digest
will be delayed or even nonexistent today, so feel free to talk amongst yourselves on non-New Mexico topics here too if you wish.
:O
:( Thats what keeps my day goin!
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Yeah, it kind of does
Usually around 2pm, I get excited to check SSP because it's usually Daily Digest time!
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It's a friday - Generally slow news day -
Weekend thread will be up soon enough, until then, we can make it our task to keep SSP readers up to date on political news with the comments!  I'm up for the task~
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Oh, there's enough
material for a digest today, including (count-em) four different NJ-Gov polls, but I have the swine flu and should probably be in bed. But James says he'll have something later.
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Go back to bed and take care of yourself
and get well soon!

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"
--  Will Rogers  
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Get well soon dude
I am in college and have luckily shown remarkably immunity to all forms of sickness around me, including swine flu and a roommate now sick for the third time. I think its the 3 classes of cranberry juice a day.

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus
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As an H1N1 survivor
I can tell you that the best thing you can do now is absolutely nothing. You need sleep, combined with either television or Hulu and water/juice, plus a little food every now and then. Get lots of rest.

If you take care of yourself, it's a very manageable illness and will get you all sorts of sympathy from friends and family.

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H1N1 survivor here too.
I agree, though I also took some Tamiflu and antibiotics as a precaution, as I am asthmatic and didn't want to take any risks. I also got a nice fruit bouquet from my boyfriend and knitted beret from his mom. :)

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Some how the weekend became the worst part of the week.
n/t.
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Since I started work in June
I have come to like weekdays more than weekends too!

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Georgia special elections (including a three-way/three-party tossup)
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Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
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NJ Gov
I thought the story of the day would have been Jon Corzine doing his best to blow the election by telling the NY Times he wants to revive his plan to put tolls on the Turnpike.

Reviving his stupid plan to toll the Turnpike is the surest way to make sure Dems who were willing to hold their nose and vote for him change their mind.

But I guess being a billionaire Wall Street ex Goldman Sachs honcho just makes you a little tone deaf to the effects tolls have on working class people just trying to get around their state.

(Sorry had to vent)

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Aren't there already tolls on the Turnpike?

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Yes
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Im not certain, but
I believe the plan is to lease the turnpike to raise cash, and it was very unpopular. He may have said it at exactly the right time though, because I'm not sure if the Christie campaign and RGA have time to make ads on it. Anyone know how long it takes to make a campaign ad?  
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Direct quote
"No toll increases...no leasing of the turnpike"
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hmm
can't help but think it was a rogue newspaper reporter looking to fling poo at the governor.

I saw it happen often when I worked in the media, especially the local media.  

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Just because he responded saying he was misquoted...
Doesnt mean it wont be used against him  
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Sure
But can't see it really changing any minds at this stage. People already have a firm opinion either way.
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...
Privatization/leasing to private companies has a bad track record; of course the government gets some cash on hand; but the expenses is that the private companies over charges commuters in order to gain huge profits.
What a fool..
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Lots of people here in Texas
are pissed at our roads being converted to tollways, even though we already paid for them with our tax dollars when they were regular roads. I'm definitely taking out my anger on Governor 39% at the voting booth in the election next year.

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The lack of a Daily Digest today
has caused me to completely lose my will to live.  Somebody talk me off the ledge!

34, WM, Democrat, FL-11
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But you have so much to look forward too!
A teabagger is going to be elected to congress on Tuesday. An ultra-right winger will be elected Governor of Virginia. A Conservative has a very good shot of being elected governor of New Jersey Tuesday. These elections may effectively kill the public option. Feel better? :P  
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Even in jest, you ought tread carefully, my friend...
n/t

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Totally OK
GOPVOTER is definitely just joking, although I'm sure he really wants all that to happen.

34, WM, Democrat, FL-11
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I am just joking
I would not mention those things seriously here.  
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I knew that was a joke too.
And I normally have a hard time detecting when somebody is being sarcastic or joking.

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With me
Its usually easy, I think :P

Trust me, you will get to know when I'm joking and when I'm not. 90% of the time I will be joking or sarcastic :P
We need smilies here :D

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Just sayin'
We're pretty good around here about not engaging in idiotic flame wars, and I fully appreciate that the remark was in good humor, but three days out from a set of marquee elections where Democrats have a great deal at stake, I think its fair to say that some nerves around here are going to be frayed.

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So,
Maybe I should stick to RS Tuesday night?  
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Nah
I'd appreciate your views of the election results. Hope you spend some time with us. Those of us who know you from your posts here know that you are a person of good will.

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"
--  Will Rogers  
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Agreed
n/t

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Even if I say I wont come here
I will. I cant avoid this place during election season, how could I avoid it the actual night of the election?  
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Is this the part where we hug it out?
n/t

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Seconded.


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hahahahahaha
and the gays winning in Maine and Washington is going to end the world as we know it!  Righteous God will lay his hands on those two states next Wednesday and send them into the ocean.
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oh and this is totally in defense of him joking
You gotta be able to laugh about the things you take to heart or else you start to wrinkle.
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I'm still waiting for Iowa to become a sweet-ass lake :-P (n/t)

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You forgot the GOP frontrunner
former Republican Party chairman and aviation business owner Allen Weh. He's the favorite to win the GOP primary right now even though tier best chances are either Janice Arnold-Jones or Susana Martinez.

Also, PR firm owner Doug Turner is running. He managed the successful campaigns of libertarian Republican Gary Johnson when Johnson won consecutive gubernatorial races.

New Mexico politics from the local perspective.

who? lol

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I would not underestimate Susana Martinez
She is the kind of candidate that the GOP should be running, not some wacko teabagger.  But I doubt she will get past the primary,
You beat me to it!
I was going to write the same thing! She is probably the best GOP candidate and could even run stronger than Wilson would in the general.


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she is nowhere near as well known
as Wilson and has no base in the crucial Albuquerque metro area, which is bad, meaning Denish starts off with a huge advantage there and of course the guranteed kind of margins Democrats get from the northern district of the state. She would only maybe, in a good campaign, win NM-02 55-45, and then lose NM-01 62-38 and NM-03 55-45.  

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus
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Maybe so
but even in defeat she would be able to reframe the GOP as a more reasonable party open to Hispanics, which they will have to do at some point if they don't want to die.
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Since the digest is in question: Oklahoma
I read this a few days ago and still don't know what to think.  

It's an article about Democrats trying to hold on as well as retake the Oklahoma State Senate.  State Sen. Andrew Rice (who challeneged Inhofe in 2008) is apparently in charge of recruiting or something (the article never says but from the prominent way he's in the article, he must be in charge of something).  The part that I had the most trouble digesting was this, from The Oklahoman:

In an effort to improve decorum and restore a collegial atmosphere in the Senate chamber, Rice said, Senate Democrats will not campaign for Democratic challengers in the districts of Republican incumbents in 2010.

"That doesn't mean they won't help support challengers," said Rice, an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe last year.

I guess my first question is, are Senate Republicans also going to try and improve the decorum by not campaigning for Republican challengers against Democratic incumbents?

That is rank political stupidity
"We're going to make everyone love each other by not campaigning against or colleagues from the other party."  That's just not how politics are played.  I could totally support somethign along the lines of "We're not going after our colleagues personally, but rather on the issues."  Any politician would understand that.  But to take this step "in an effort to improve decorum" -- well, they deserve to be a shrinking minority in perhaps the reddest state in the country.
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That quote is bull.
I'd imagine the NM Governor has a big security role due to the southern border, and with the Homeland Security director being a former governor of a Southwestern state, I'm sure she'd understand that role and the input.
I was going to say the same thing
that's a cop out. That's a Heather Wilson "I'm afraid to lose again" cop out.  
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I think it sounds like she'd hate being Governor
and she is certain to run whenever Bingaman retires.
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Bingaman will only be 69 in 2012
and could feasibly be re-elected to two or even three more terms, so she could be waiting awhile.
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NM will be as blue as California by then
The GOP will have to run a Hispanic Lincoln Chafee to have a prayer.  
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