Obama Campaign Office Opens In Albuquerque

This evening was the grand opening of the Obama for President Campaign office on the North West corner of Central and Carlisle. At 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm local Obama supporters gathered to show their support for Senator Obama at the new office on central.

Speaking at this evening’s event was our own Martin Heinrich who is running for Congress in CD1. Martin Heinrich is clearly strongly supported by local voters in the area. He pointed out that “Hope and action lead to Change.” Martin Heinrich is very good at getting the crowd motivated to go out and bring in more voters for our party. His group has been one of the most organized in the city. People are drawn to him the minute he walks through the door.

I thought it sweet that one of the young women in the group noted how cute the candidate appears. I reminded her that he is very happily married to the love of his life and he has two very adorable sons. Maybe it was just one of those evenings because someone also asked me about James B. Lewis our state treasurer. Strange topic to deal with at an event but we are very lucky to have candidates that our easy on the eyes. I personally will stick to only flirting with a very limited number of single ones and never when they are running for election. I must admit that our candidates our very intelligent and easy to speak with on many topics. They care a great deal about their communities and stand up for voters on important issues so I can see why women would be drawn to them. I personally am not blind to the charms of one or two of the single gentlemen public official in our city.

Back to politics, I spoke for only a few minutes with Martin Heinrich but I was able to ask one or two questions on issues. He said that he was looking into the issue of education which has made the news lately. As a father of two sweet boys he cares a great deal about our public educational system. We are very lucky to have his strong support of local educational employees in this city. We need people like Heinrich and Obama in office to fix the mess that the Bush Administration has created with their unfunded “No Child Left Behind” law which has clearly damaged our educational system in this country. I also had to ask him if he had gotten the chance to wish his opponent a fast recovery but he said that he has not. Maybe like Senator Obama, Martin does not want to give Sheriff White the wrong impression of his intent. After months of demanding that Senator Obama go abroad to visit Iraq, Senator McCain could not stop criticizing Senator Obama for doing just what he was requested to do. Senator McCain is acting like a cantankerous old man. Nothing Senator Obama does will please the man at this point in time but I don’t hear voters complaining about Senator Obama’s actions so he must be doing something right.

But back to Sheriff White, I have a bad back because of hip replacement surgery so I will be more then happy to wish Darren White a fast recovery. I honestly harbor no personal ill will towards our Sheriff but he is just not the man for the job of Congressman for our state. I think Martin Heinrich will do a great job for our congressional district once he is elected.

After the event I stopped by the flying star to pick up two cookies for my daughter. I still think it sad that Mayor Martin Chavez could be so wrong about his remark about Senator Obama’s last visit to the city. Senator Obama met with working women from the flying stars around the city. These women do not make a lot of money and are trying to support their families. Maybe Mayor Chavez should be out getting voters for our party’s candidates rather then attacking them.