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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham appeared in a virtual video Wednesday, the third night of Democratic National Convention, to address how climate change is a priority for presidential candidate Joe Biden. “We know time is running out to save our planet,” Grisham said. “We have the chance this November to end two existential crises, the Trump presidency and the environmental annihilation he represents.” Grisham, who was considered a potential running mate to Biden, joined a group of prominent Democratic figures Wednesday night speaking at the convention leading up to Biden’s acceptance speech Thursday. “We have the chance this November...

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Thursday the coronavirus pandemic is far from whipped, despite a recent drop in new virus cases statewide that prompted the governor to say New Mexico was “beating all of our neighbors.” With the state’s COVID-19 test positivity rate having recently dropped well below 3% — the lowest in the southwest region — the governor said some business restrictions could be gradually relaxed in the coming month, though she did not offer any guarantees. When it comes to public schools, the governor said her administration would be cautious in deciding whether students can...

Scarpa’s [restaurant] was visited by two state police officers, and then by city health department officials. You’ll appreciate this: Law enforcement took two of its best away from drugs, shootings, assaults and deadly crashes to close down Scarpa’s. Scarpa’s crime was to provide patio dining by elevating its wall system that opens some of its dining area to the sunlight and the fresh air. The restaurant’s ventilation system provided positive air flow continuously over the tables. But, we have a government that knows better and has the unlimited resources to send law enforcement to impose its judgment. ... When the...

On Monday it was reported that leading Democrat vice-presidential contender to be Joe Biden’s running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, does not follow Biden on Twitter, which prompted the Piñon Post to see if Gov. Michell Lujan Grisham, also a contender for the Democrat vice-presidential nomination follows Biden. Here’s what we found: After searching both Lujan Grisham’s campaign and public Twitter accounts, @Michelle4NM and @GovMLG, respectively, we concluded both by a thorough review of who she is following on Twitter, as well as a check from the website DoesFollow.com, that Lujan Grisham does not follow Biden nor does Biden follow...

SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has had an invisible companion while directing New Mexico’s coronavirus response efforts this summer: incessant national political speculation about her potential role in a Joe Biden administration. The first-term Democratic governor has been repeatedly mentioned as a possible vice presidential pick – Biden has said he will pick a female running mate – or Cabinet member. Unlike some candidates, Lujan Grisham has not rejected the speculation or said she would decline an offer, but she has also not publicly touted her own credentials. “It’s flattering, but I try to just keep focused here,”...

Joe Biden’s search for a running mate has advanced to the next phase as his campaign conducts more extensive reviews of some prospects, including at least several African American women, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Among the candidates who have progressed to the point of more comprehensive vetting or have the potential to do so are Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., former national security adviser Susan Rice and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, all of whom are black. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who is white, is also in that group, as is New Mexico...

As riots, protests, and racial unrest erupt in cities across the country, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said her administration is more interested in keeping protesters safe and allowing their voices to be heard than in the show of force President Donald Trump urged governors to display during a conference call Monday morning. The Washington Post, which obtained a recording of the call, reported that Trump berated the governors, called them “weak,” and said they would look like fools if they did not take back the streets. “Militarizing our response is incredibly callous, dangerous and tone deaf,” Lujan Grisham said in...

"Our Governor is the latest Democrat to decide that the rules they impose on their citizens to address the COVID-19 pandemic don’t apply to her," the New Mexico Republican Party tweeted Wednesday. "A bombshell report reveals that the governor violated her own stay-at-home order to stock up on some high-end jewelry." Just a day before, Whitmer was forced to address reports that her husband had used her name at a dock to help get their boat placed in the water faster ahead of the Memorial Day weekend. “My husband made a failed attempt at humor last week when checking in...

Yesterday, we told you about Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer offering up dubious explanations for her husband throwing his weight as the governor’s husband around at a northern Michigan marina where he wanted to get his boat on the water early, despite Whitmer’s public guidance against travel to the area. Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker got huffy late last month when confronted about his wife traveling to his family’s equestrian estate in Florida despite his stay-at-home order, and last week, he got caught sending Illinois construction workers to Wisconsin to work on his new home and horse farm. And then...

Mass gatherings of over 100 people might not happen for a year in New Mexico because of the coronavirus pandemic, says state Tourism Secretary Jen Paul Schroer. "I know a lot of events have been canceled this year," Schroer said last Wednesday on reopening the state's hospitality industry. "We may not have the ability to do a mass gathering until we have a vaccine or herd immunity. It could be a year or 18 months." A spokeswoman for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham agreed.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she will help make sure that racial- and ethnic-minority voters know about the potential benefits of electing Joe Biden as president. Asked Wednesday at an online news conference whether she would accept a potential invitation to run for vice president in November, Lujan Grisham said she is completely dedicated to her job as governor but also will provide specialized support to Biden's presidential campaign.

The first known contender to be asked for those references is New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, per an anonymous individual with knowledge of the request in the report. It did not report any other women on Biden's vice presidential consideration list who received such a request. Lujan Grisham has told her allies in recent days that Biden's team had begun vetting her to be his running mate, Politico reported on Tuesday.

A former congressional intern for Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is believed to be the man who painted the words “Still Traitors” on Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque last weekend. Albuquerque police arrested Cameron Chase McCall, 30, Wednesday on a charge of criminal damage to property over $1,000, a fourth-degree felony. Surveillance video footage and an anonymous tip led to his arrest, according to the criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Lujan Grisham spokesman Tripp Stelnicki confirmed that McCall was an intern for Lujan Grisham when she was a member of the U.S. House. Stelnicki condemned the vandalism. “The governor...

SANTA FE — New Mexico state spending would rise significantly for the second consecutive year under a budget proposal unveiled by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday that would boost state spending by $596.3 million — or roughly 8.4% — over current levels. The nearly $7.7 billion spending plan includes a proposed 4% salary increase for New Mexico teachers and more money for school districts with a large number of “at risk” students, as the state continues to grapple with the fallout of a landmark legal ruling about its public education system. It would also provide additional dollars to hire...

by Jenn Carter New Mexico's new Democrat governor Michelle Lujan-Grisham is certainly making a name for herself after just 5 months in office -- if being an open-borders clown with tanking approval ratings is what she's after. First, after President Trump deployed National Guard troops to the Mexican border to deal with a huge increase in illegal entries in January, she ordered them removed, calling it an "act of resistance": Lujan Grisham withdrew 118 National Guard troops from the state’s southern boundary.She said she did it to counter what she called Trump’s “charade of border fear-mongering,” and as a “protest” against Trump’s move to...

by Brian Hayes As we reported on May 7th, New Mexico's Trump-hating open-borders governor took radical actions just to spite the President — but now that the results are proving disastrous for her state, she is begging the Feds for more help with the border! You can't make this up, folks. Trump deployed National Guard and U.S. Army troops to the Mexican border to deal with a huge increase in illegal entries in January. In act of what she called “resistance” against the president, New Mexico’s Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham withdrew 118 National Guard troops from the state’s...

TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - The FBI on Saturday said it had arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of an armed group that is stopping undocumented migrants after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border into New Mexico. The arrest came two days after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused the group of illegally detaining migrants and New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered an investigation.,.... More at link:

<p>New Mexico is prohibiting local governments from enacting right-to-work ordinances that prevent employees from being required to join a union or pay union fees.</p> <p>Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday signed legislation that asserts the state’s exclusive jurisdiction over union security agreements.</p>

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The Democrat presidential nomination battle is already a three-ring circus, and the far left elements of the Democrat base are going to make sure it stays that way. Yesterday, ex-Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who is struggling to gain a foothold in the race, found himself in trouble with the social justice warrior crowd when his effort to imply that a woman may well win the nominating contest fell flat with the humorless left. The first mistake Hickenlooper made was accepting CNN’s invitation to get a little (very little, given CNN’s dwindling audience)...

SANTA FE – A proposal to require background checks before almost any gun sale in New Mexico inched closer to passage Tuesday – but with some political drama. The legislation, Senate Bill 8, narrowly cleared the Senate two weeks ago and is now mowing forward in the House, potentially its last stop before reaching Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a supporter of the proposal ... The House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee endorsed the background check bill on a party-line vote of 3-2 Tuesday – after a Republican lawmaker walked out, slammed the door behind her and later returned for the...