Morning Word
We have an eclectic grab-bag of news in the Word this morning. ---You want reaction to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee airing a negative ad? We have that. How about an analysis of income inequality in the state?
We even have people dressed up in cow costumes to support gay marriage while others eat fast food to oppose gay marriage! Huh? Yeah, that happened.
On to the Word:
- Regulators have s
- eized documents from the New Mexico Finance Authority
- in connection to the agency's fake audit.
- Time for a
- purge of the voter rolls from Secretary of State Dianna Duran
- . Duran is sending out postcards to 177,768 postcards to those who may have moved to confirm their addresses.
- According to the
- New Mexico Economic Summary
- , the income gap between the richest and poorest "is especially wide in New Mexico." The richest county is, unsurprisingly, Los Alamos. The rest of the above-average counties are either oil-rich counties (Eddy, San Juan counties), have significant populations in the Albuquerque metro area (Bernalillo, Sandoval counties) or are Santa Fe (Santa Fe county). On the other end of the spectrum, the poorest county is De Baca county on New Mexico's eastern plains.
- The report also looks at oil and gas revenue, as well as taxable gross receipts in the state.
- The New Mexican
- covered the DSCC ad that goes after Heather Wilson
- . The story says the ad is largely accurate, but, "While the issue of tax breaks for overseas outsourcing has risen in virtually every campaign in recent years, the scope of the actual problem — creating jobs overseas at the expense of American jobs — is unclear."
- How did the NRSC spin the ad? From a NRSC spox:
Hotline: Democrats Are Concerned About New Mexico tinyurl.com/cxt6am2 #NMSEN
