Nuevo Mexico Politics

2006-03-01T16:15:00.000-07:00

Announcing the first contest on the Nuevo Mexico Politics blogsite!
Introducing
The Search for the Holy Gail....

Due to the overwhelming response to the pictures I posted (thanks to Todd, Chris and Heather), I am going to create a contest of the best pictures of Gail Chasey. Using the three pictures below as guides, go wild and find Gail all over the world! Like New Mexico's "Where's Waldo", the The Search for the Holy Gail calls all Photoshop Pros, all MSPaint masters, all Corel Kings and Queens.

Here are the latest entries...

2006-02-28T14:23:00.000-07:00

Announcing the first contest on the Nuevo Mexico Politics blogsite!

Introducing

The Search for the Holy Gail....

Due to the overwhelming response to the pictures I posted (thanks to Todd, Chris and Heather), I am going to create a contest of the best pictures of Gail Chasey. Using the three pictures below as guides, go wild and find Gail all over the world! Like New Mexico's "Where's Waldo", the The Search for the Holy Gail calls all Photoshop Pros, all MSPaint masters, all Corel Kings and Queens.

The grand prize will be announced here tomorrow morning.
Please send all submissions to stevebadal@gmail.com

2006-02-28T14:05:00.000-07:00

34%
Paging Osama Bin Laden, paging Osama Bin Laden…. Your family’s closest American business partners (the Bushes) need your help, like they got in the 2004 election… Your continued safety will be guaranteed through your cooperation… until at least October 2008, when Condi Rice will need a boost past Hillary Clinton….

Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low
NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2006
(CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.

Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement.

CBS News senior White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that now it turns out the Coast Guard had concerns about the ports deal, a disclosure that is no doubt troubling to a president who assured Americans there was no security risk from the deal.

The troubling results for the Bush administration come amid reminders about the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina and negative assessments of how the government and the president have handled it for six months.

In a separate poll, two out of three Americans said they do not think President Bush has responded adequately to the needs of Katrina victims. Only 32 percent approve of the way President Bush is responding to those needs, a drop of 12 points from last September’s poll, taken just two weeks after the storm made landfall.

Mr. Bush's overall job rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 42 percent last month. Fifty-nine percent disapprove of the job the president is doing.

For the first time in this poll, most Americans say the president does not care much about people like themselves. Fifty-one percent now think he doesn't care, compared to 47 percent last fall.

Just 30 percent approve of how Mr. Bush is handling the Iraq war, another all-time low.

By two to one, the poll finds Americans think U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are going badly – the worst assessment yet of progress in Iraq.

Even on fighting terrorism, which has long been a strong suit for Mr. Bush, his ratings dropped lower than ever. Half of Americans say they disapprove of how he's handling the war on terror, while 43 percent approve.

In a bright spot for the administration, most Americans appeared to have heard enough about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident.

More then three in four said it was understandable that the accident had occurred and two-thirds said the media had spent too much time covering the story.

Still, the incident appears to have made the public's already negative view of Cheney a more so. Just 18 percent said they had a favorable view of the vice president, down from 23 percent in January.

Americans were evenly split on whether or not Cheney's explanation of why there was a delay in reporting the accident was satisfactory.

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2006-02-27T11:08:00.000-07:00

Major US Ports sold to Dubai, and the Prez wasn’t told about it until the controversy arose… the VP shoots a man in the face and the story is covered up for half a day…
the Prez requests another $85 billion for a war that was supposed to cost $1.7 billion…
the Prez continues to only attend events where handpicked audiences are allowed to attend…

All this demonstrates the following….

The Bush Administration was supposed to come in a bring integrity, honor and gravitas to the White House...
What it has done was squandered the political capital earned through the tragic events of 9/11 and conducted several years of lies, of extreme bullying, and of tax-cut and spend that endangers the future of the nation.
The friends of Bush & Cheney have reaped a great deal for the half a billion they contributed to the 2000 and 2004 elections, and are sure to reward Bush & Cheney post-2008 with stocks and cushy jobs.

2006-02-23T11:02:00.000-07:00

The incident that inspired me to create this blog was the 2006 NM Legislative Session. I was shocked at what transpired during the 30 days, and disappointed in what few bills actually made it to the Governor's desk. As a state that was flush with gasoline and gas taxes, I expected serious attempts to solve the sad problems with education, health care, and lack of jobs.

One picture represented the entire session to me perfectly. The picture on the left (from the Albuquerque Tribune website, go to http://www.abqtrib.com/ for great stories and more) shows Rep. Gail Chasey (District 18, Bernalillo County) playing a game of solitaire on her laptop during session.

Now I have nothing against a time-out, a stress reliever, an escape from work to clear the cobwebs out of your head. But this elected official was doing this during session! I feel that was wrong, and a waste of an opportunity to make a difference in our poor and undereducated state.

My crazy employees got an email with this picture and a Steve Sermon (my version of the Oprah Moment) that encouraged appropriate types of stress relievers, emphasizing time and location and the impression you may be unknowingly making to those around you.

So obviously the next step was for some of my more creative types to email me with some pictures inspired by the one above. They assured me that they created the pics in their free time....

2006-02-23T10:57:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my first attempt at a blog.
I was inspired to create this site by my wife, my employees, and my father, a man who was very involved in politics on the local level.
I run a small online advertising agency, and have the privilege of working in the land of Enchantment even though most of my employees work in Austin.

I love Santa Fe, and I want to offer a forum to discuss Santa Fe and the local politics openly and freely.

Feel free to be controversial, argumentative, and always honest. Say the things you wouldn't at work because of fear of making the boss mad. My policy at work is to let my employees speak their mind, so it's only fair that the same rule applies here. So let's get started!