Today President Bush is in the City of Albuquerque to raise blood money for Sheriff Darren White in reward for his past support as Bernalillo County Campaign Chair of his last election. Sheriff White is hoping to take the money and run away from President Bush’s low popularity rating.The Democratic Party of New Mexico organized an anti war protest today on the Rio Grande Boulevard at the Hartnett Park. The idea was to show President Bush that his present here in New Mexico was not welcomed by either the voting public or the Democratic Party. All of the Congressional One candidates were invited to attend the event. Because there was four such anti war protest along the route the president would take to the home where the fund raiser was taking place only one candidate show up for the party protest. More then 50 people show up with signs to make their feeling crystal clear that President Bush was not welcome in our state and his candidate would not stand a chance of winning in the fall election no matter how much money his party throws at him. It is clearly a bad move on the part of Sheriff Darren White. I am sure that this little fund raiser will be the topic of many ghost stories come the fall election.
Our commanding state party leader Brian Colon showed up to lend his support to the protest. He had strong words for President Bush and Sheriff Darren White. We will turn Congressional District One blue this year. We don’t want him in our state to help candidates that support an endless war. Chairman Colon was wearing clear glasses today even though the sun in New Mexico is bad for your eyes because he wanted to look people in the eyes as he spoke to the voting public. He noted that Senator McCain was hiding behind sunglasses because he feared looking New Mexican Veterans in the eye when he told them that he would not vote for a bill that would help send them to college and reward their service to America with a better education. Congressman Tom Udall who is running unopposed in the democratic primary for senate is leading the charge on this issue right now in Washington so he could not be at the event. Democratic New Mexicans look forward to seeing our beloved Congressman at his grand opening of his Campaign office for senate here in Albuquerque on Thursday evening.
Martin Heinrich who is leading in the latest polls in the Congressional District one race also turned out to show that he also does not support an endless war in Iraq and feels the money could be better spent to assist middle class families with economic problems at home. I noted that he was speaking to the union leaders for the AFL-CIO during the event. He has received many local union endorsements over the last few months.There are more pictures of the event on my webshots link at the lower left side of this page.
