Sheriff White “Nobody here but us Chickens.”

Five minutes of fame is still five minutes of free press for Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White. While killers get away with shooting ice cream men and homes are being robbed Sheriff White is hunting down cockfighters and making the evening news for doing so in our city. How sad can you get and still be Sheriff of our county.

I called his campaign office last week to ask his stand on the New G.I. Bill but still no response. While Sheriff White is making the city safe for chickens men and women are giving their lives in a war where there is no plan for winning it or ending it in the near future.

Martin Heinrich has shown strong support for our troops by supporting the New G.I. Bill that would enable them to get a quality education when they return for the war in Iraq. Now he and Congressman Tom Udall are standing strong on our constitutional rights by not giving the Bush Administration a free pass on the FISA bill that would allow the government to spy on Americans without a warrant.

This all gives new meaning to the phrase “Nobody here but us chickens.”