Tuesday, December 15, 2020Ghostly Sunport Contrasts With Neighboring States, Plus: NM Electors Remain Anonymous And GOP's "Fanciful Notions" The reader who snapped the pic writes: It’s 6:30 on a Sunday night. And they have one plane at the entire airport.
I should’ve taken pictures at Austin and Dallas. Everyone’s wearing masks, but the terminals are packed. The restaurants are open. People are coming and going. It’s an unbelievable contrast. New Mexico has been laboring under some of the toughest virus restrictions in the nation. But it's a tale of two worlds. The state is dominated by government employment and its contractors. Besides working remotely, they have felt little economic impact from the various restrictions while a large swath of the private sector economy is devastated. ANONYMOUS ELECTORS The state Democratic Party got the jitters when it came to releasing the names of the state's five electors who cast ballots for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Monday, affirming their November victory. The Dems said the names were being kept out of the public eye because "of security concerns reported in other states." A check of Ballotpedia shows a handful of other states also did not publicly name their electors as Trump continues to dispute the election outcome. The party said the five electors came from Valencia, Sandoval, San Miguel, Chaves and Curry counties and represented the "diversity of our state." That may well be, but it's notable that none of the electors came from Bernalillo, Dona Ana or Santa Fe counties--the ones that were instrumental to the Biden win here. FANCIFUL NOTIONS While Trump was losing here and nationally in the Electoral College, his campaign. . . . . filed an election lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, claiming the state broke the law when it allowed drop boxes to be a part of the voting process during the 2020 election. . . The Republican Party of New Mexico worked with the President’s legal team leading to this legal action. RPNM has questioned the validity of votes and the outcome in the presidential races due to mail-in ballots issues and drop box infractions. The final NM presidential vote as certified by the state after an independent audit was Biden 501,614 and Trump 401,894. That's a margin of nearly 100,000.
In case someone missed it, the Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the Legislature, all statewide executive offices, the Supreme Court, four of the five congressional seats and they've won four presidential elections in a row here. Welcome aboard, Nike. Congrats. . . or something.
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