GOP takes control of New Mexico's state house of Representatives

KOAT TV Channel 7 News ^ | November 5, 2014 | Alana Grimstad

[Clintonfatigued]

For the first time since 1953, Republicans will have the majority in the New Mexico House of Representatives.

Current election numbers have Republicans with 37 seats, which is four more than the Democrats control.

There were five battleground races Tuesday, according to KOAT political analyst Brian Sanderoff. The GOP won all of those races.

[Parley Baer]

The good news just keeps rolling in.

[Clintonfatigued]

The last time that Republicans controlled the lower House of the New Mexico legislature was when Eisenhower was President. This is huge.

Thanks Susana Martinez for helping others while getting reelected.

[rainee]

This is a big f’n deal!

Has Begich conceded yet??

[jalisco555]

Republicans control over 2/3 of all state legislative chambers and more legislative seats than at any time in almost a century. This is the farm system, where future congresspeople, senators and governors come from. The GOP now has a huge talent pool, while the Dem talent pool is thin and anemic.

[VanDeKoik]

Hold the phone!

There’s a NEW Mexico?

[lulu16]

All the young dems who lost their chance, or were blocked by the jurassic dems still in place, will be known as the lost generation.

[Vince Ferrer]

Break the teacher’s unions.

[RitchieAprile]

part of the land o’ enchantment.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Commonly thought of as a solid blue state, NM is actually a swing state which should never be written off. GWB carried it in 2004.

[machman]

Yeah, not much difcerent than old Mexico.....

[CedarDave]

Another win for Pubs (by 30 points) in a heavily Democratic-Hispanic district:

Pearce’s huge win over Lara confounds Democratic pundits (R, NM-2)

[rrrod]

‘Break the teacher’s unions.’....stomp those child molesters into the ground!

[Nateman]

Republicans control over 2/3 of all state legislative chambers and more legislative seats than at any time in almost a century.

Unless ones believes in an utterly random universe, this is too good an opportunity to be due to chance alone. Article V needs to be used NOW to save the Republic before hordes of invaders give the Democrat Party the parasite base it needs to remain permanently in power. Obama's last minute packing of the courts means the left has THEIR way of rewriting the Constitution. Article V is the Constitution BECAUSE of the very situation we face today.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I heard there are lots of crazy liberal types in Santa Fe. Never been there, just have heard that it reminds people of Berkeley or Cambridge or the Upper West Side in some ways.

[Catsrus]

Maybe, just maybe, Mark Levin’s Book helped bring about the changes in the state legislatures? Speculation on my part, but worthy of a maybe.

[lulu16]

It’s where Ali MacGraw went to get out of the glare of Hollywood, when she felt self-conscious when her age started to show. She is 75.

[Maine Mariner]

And the Demorats farm team consists of lawyers, hidebound college professor, the heads of non profit organizations,
and so forth.

[Nateman]

Mark Levin’s Book helped bring about the changes in the state legislatures?

It did in my case. I had no idea who my state reps were or cared. I figured everything happens in Washington, especially after seeing stuff from the states overturned , again and again. Thanks to his book I realized the states hold the ultimate power. In a way it's good so many don't consider it. The Statists will have no idea of what hit them until it's too late!

[sean327]

Really? Have you even been to New Mexico? New Mexico is a far better place than many southern states. Mississippi and Arkansas off the top of my head are two states that Mexico rivals as a better place to live. New Mexico is God’s country!