OPINION: One-party rule has created a dystopian nightmare in New Mexico

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | October 27, 2024 | Nella Dominici

[CedarDave]

New Mexico is on the verge of living a real, not imagined, dystopia of one-party rule. The one party is the radical progressive Democrats.

The New Mexico House and Senate already have overwhelming majorities of these progressives — many hand-picked and endorsed by my opponent, Martin Heinrich.

A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia. In a dystopia, one party rules; the citizens chant slogans, don’t think and don’t connect the dots regarding actions and consequences. It is a society where there is no common sense.

Progressives want to ban fracking. Martin Heinrich doesn’t think public lands should be used for private purposes like employing 134,000 New Mexicans who earn a good living drilling for oil.

New Mexico without oil and gas production will quickly become a New Mexico with 50% fewer teachers and twice as large classes, where few can read or do simple math. It is a New Mexico with 50% fewer police and criminal-controlled neighborhoods — all because the progressives shut down oil and gas production and eliminated 50% of the state’s budget.

Martin Heinrich’s progressives all think the same and chant the same slogans.

To paraphrase George Orwell, there is no imbecility, absolutely none, that progressives are not capable of swallowing if Martin dishes it out to them in a slogan — Medicare for all! Health care for all!Housing for All! Green New Deal!

**snip**

His progressive priorities are threatening the livelihood of our ranchers, loggers, and other Norteños — regulation by regulation banishing them from our public lands while prioritizing the meadow jumping mouse, the prairie chicken, the dunes sagebrush lizard over people ...

The only way to avoid this dystopian nightmare is to replace Martin Heinrich with someone like me, a Domenici, who will always prioritize New Mexicans’ needs. Vote wisely.

[CedarDave]

Unfortunately it's an uphill battle for her but Trump's visit may help.

[CedarDave]

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[PIF]

Another Heinrich

[LegendHasIt]

They really do want to make New Mexico into Old Mexico again.

[ansel12]

New Mexico, cleaner than regular Mexico.

[wjcsux]

We had the opportunity to meet her dad at a townhall in Albuquerque in the mid 80’s. We were really impressed by his kindness.

[tiki]

In my younger days I was very politically active. I wrote my senators and representatives often and I always signed my letters with my legal name.

So one day senator Domenici was going to make a quick stop at our airport and he told the head of the Republican party that he would like to meet me.

Although I’m very well known in my town very few people knew me by my legal name, they finally asked someone who had gone to school with me where I often had to go by my legal name.
So anyhow I got to meet him he was very nice and he told me he appreciated my letters.

[T-Bird45]

The problem for Domenici’s campaign is there are too many in NM sucking from the. gov teat rather than having an understanding of the economic activity required to make the milk flow from said teat. That’s the essence of her argument but the ability to understand is sorely lacking among the majority of voters there.

[qaz123]

The tell is always by highlighting certain towns, cities, neighborhoods.

Taos is a rich, white liberal location. It isn’t immune to the bad stuff but it’s infrequent and the bad folks are dealt with

There are areas around Santa Fe, Albuquerque and other places have rough areas but also areas where the rich live.

As a former city cop, not in NM, the bad folks not to do their dirt in certain areas

If you’re not effected by the bad stuff, the bad stuff never happened.

It’s the state version of Hunger Games, without the murder contest….yet

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

There is a fairly new YouTube video of the Albuquerque Journal Vice President caught shoplifting at, yes, Walmart. He was in those self checkout machines, and only scanned every other item. While this ‘pillar of the community’ was busy stealing in the checkout, his lovely young sons were busy drinking items, putting them back on the shelf, and, of course, not paying. The entire family needs some jail time. Most of video is from police cameras. There are also parts of the Walmart surveillance videos. After the video went viral, he lost his $150,000/year Albuquerque Journal job.

MSLSD and CNN will, no doubt, hire him as the anti-crime expert.

[No name given]

Along with Commiefornia.

[rdcbn1]

Had a friend who’s dad was an old time pioneer family with banking and ranching interests .

He was big time Democrat in NM .

Obama destroyed him politically and financially

[qaz123]

I think the definition of Democrat has changed beyond recognition.

Your friends dad was probably more like Kennedy or an old school southern, blue dog Democrat.

If you’re not playing the new, globalist billionaire liberal game, you’re not a Democrat they want. A guy you described wasn’t not under Obama and his puppet masters control. Thus, he was destroyed.

[fella]

One party rule always ends in dictatorship.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.
After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.”-Alexander Fraser Tytler

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Republicans always vote for the best man for the job as leader.
Democrats always vote for the Party who will sign the welfare checks.
Sixty years ago NM was a great place to live. Great Jobs, great schools, great locations to retire.

Now New Mexico rates below Arkan-saw and Mississippi as the worst schools, jobs job security and retirement.