Ronchetti leaves KRQE to consider run for governor (New Mexico)

The Santa Fe New Mexican ^ | October 22, 2021 | Daniel J. Chacón

[CedarDave]

Mark Ronchetti has resigned as KRQE-TV's chief meteorologist to consider a run for governor.

"We have not made a final decision yet," Ronchetti said Friday in a statement.

"Krysty and I will continue to talk to our girls and pray about the direction we're going to head in next," he added, referring to his wife and two young daughters. "We hope to have a final decision by next week."

During Thursday night's news broadcast, the station reported that Ronchetti had "handed in his resignation to News 13 effective immediately" to consider a run for governor.

A political science professor at the University of New Mexico said recently Ronchetti would be the Republican front-runner if he threw his name into the ring.

The Republican nominee for governor will face off against Democratic incumbent Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in the November 2022 election.

[CedarDave]

More name recognition than any other Pub candidate and ran a respectable race for US Senator winning 46% against a well known Democrat in a three-way race last year.

[CedarDave]

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[fieldmarshaldj]

Voter fraud in 2020 means he probably won the Senate race.

[Kartographer]

Still running in New Mexico so he will lose one way or enough. The Peoples Republic of Nueva México don’t need no stink’n Republicanas.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Lujan Grisham has been probably the worst Governor in state history, so even with fraud, he has a decent chance to take her sorry ass out.

[Lurkinanloomin]

How exactly do you win a rigged election?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, one key is for GOP areas to NOT report the election returns until the Dem areas have. If the GOP goes first, it gives the Dems ample opportunity to manufacture/fix votes in their areas that magically overcome the GOP numbers (the “middle of the night” fraud). Not a guarantee, of course, but it is one way.

[Kartographer]

From my time there I believe that Peoples Republic of Nueva México is on a steadfast course to having a government that is at least as incompetent as its Madre country is

[fieldmarshaldj]

A fella from Indiana, who served as Governor of New Mexico, had this to say... “All calculations based on our experiences elsewhere fail in New Mexico.” - Lew Wallace

[CedarDave]

The Dems, who control all of state government, are trying to redistrict the state so that Hispanics and Native Americans are predominant in all of the three congressional districts. Many Hispanics in NM-2 mostly supported Trump in 2020 because many work at good paying jobs in the oil patch (which both NM and Fed Dems are trying to distroy). However, Dems want to pull Pub areas and put them in NM-3 which is overwhelmingly Dem. NM-1 (ABQ) has pretty much shifted from purple to blue the past several elections.

[OrangeHoof]

Local weatherman sticks his finger in the air. Film at 11.

[Kartographer]

Best solution is to give everything east of Pecos and south of Alamogordo to Texas and divide everything left among the tribes. ;-)

[Kartographer]

He was RIGHT!!!

[fieldmarshaldj]

That was the worry when Xochitl was taken out last year. They’d either shore up her seat or try to take out Harrell.

[moonhawk]

Terrible news. Ronchetti is a great weather person, but he was a terrible candidate. Wishy-washy, global warmist, and a history of derogatory statements about Trump.

We had an East Mountain conservatives rally in Cedar Crest during the campaign that he was supposed to attend. He pulled a no-show.

Stick to what you’re good at, Mark.

Jay Block or Greg Zanetti would be far better choices. Ronchetti is the Rino move to weaken the field.