The Piercing Truth

This is right from the dictionary and seems to describe Albuquerque, Berry and Schultz. Fascism (f ash ,izem) noun An authoritarian right wing system of government and/or social organization. (in general use) extreme right wing, authoritarian, chauvinistic and/or intolerant views or practices. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one group over another, national, ethnic, especially social strata or monetarily; a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach. Compliments of one of our Eyes

Oct 16, 2007

Bad Timing

It was just five months ago that the Duke City Fixes Johnny Mango was waxing poetic about The Almighty Mayor suggesting that he would be the perfect opponent Heather Wilson; who was still running for Congress at the time (read it here).
"Chavez is enormously popular in Albuquerque, and this city is basically Heather Wilson's U.S. House district. In fact, he is probably better known and more popular than Wilson herself...even now...a year and a half before the election."
A lot has changed in these past months. Ok... not really but the perception of Senate candidate Chavez has certainly begun to change as his mayoral shenanigans and administrative failures have come to light. Since the Duke City Fix provided a list of reasons why Marty should run, we'll provide a short list of reasons why he shouldn't.

1. FBI crime statistics indicate that Albuquerque is one of the most dangerous of 349 cities in the nation (ABQ Journal - Subscription).

2. Chavez created a defacto sanctuary city through APD's Standard Operational Procedure.

3. Voters rejected every single one of the Almighty One's city council candidates; proving the mayor may not even have a coat much less coattails.

4. The APOA's expensive full page ad revealing that APD only has 900 sworn officers, despite repeated mayoral claims and promises of close to 1,100.

5. Marty's red light scam-era program is taking in huge amounts of profit; as much as $11.4 MILLION. Of course the spinner in chief tried to make us feel better by calling the profit "excess money" (ABQ Journal - Subscription); profit subsequently dumped into the city's general fund not used for public safety as promised (ABQ Journal - Subscription).

To make matters worse, the city council and long time ally Councilor Mayer are in open rebellion rejecting the mayor's reorganization of the city's Animal Control department (ABQ Journal - Subscription).

The irony here is that The Almighty One has done most of the damage to his political future without the help of a determined political foe. You can be sure that whoever the Republican nominee ends up being (Heather Wilson or Steve Pearce) all of these recent foibles will come to the fore; that is assuming that a Democrat doesn't use them to destroy the mayor in the Democrat primary.

One of the most important aspects of any campaign is timing and Marty couldn't have picked a worse time to run for a higher statewide office (unless of course he was under indictment). No matter how this Senate thing shakes out, this next campaign season is going to be the most interesting in recent memory.

29 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, it couldn't be worse.
Incictments? May be coming sooner than they think. Title III wire tapping is nothing to fool with. Move over Mayor, the Cheif will be going with you as well

Anonymous said...

OK, won't all of Smarty's misdeeds and questionable behaviors and "dirty laundry" be aired out when he starts to campaign? Seems to me a lot of dirt will be beaten out of that rug!!!!

Anonymous said...

What about Pearlman's contracts that Marty signed?

Anonymous said...

DARREN WHITE!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Don't forget abqpac, taxes, a net increase of 17 new officers in the last three years, domestic violence...

Anonymous said...

Tell me why Marty should be the next us senator?

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Anonymous said...

I wonder what his son, daughter, and ex-wife have to say about that...........? Stay tuned!

Anonymous said...

WOW!! This is better than "The Young & The Restless" or should it be "The Old & the Washed Up"....but you can bet I will stay tuned!!!

Anonymous said...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! THE G O P fightin' HARD, DIRTY, and NASTY! HA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha sssssshhhhhh loose lips sink ships. Too Late.

Anonymous said...

Might Angelo Garcia start talking about that fundraiser he had on behalf of the Mayor..............? It's amazing what a little money buys you in prison. Sing jail bird, sing.

Anonymous said...

we have been hearing about the mystery kid from his mistress for a couple years... dont know if its true or not but it has got to come to light in a campaign of this magnitude.

Anonymous said...

DAREN WHITE!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Yep, a boy from some little girl in the legal dept, when she went to go for child support, Margaret bailed so that she would get the lion's share of child support because she filed first. Guess beatin the hell out of her wasn't enough, but a kid that would cut into her money was.....No one ever sees his son(s), but his daughter is more than visible, (think Brittany Spears visible) when she goes out or shows at one of the city functions.

Anonymous said...

Thats all non sense! Theres no baby & no mistress!

Anonymous said...

THE GOP is ALL OVER IT for the next YEAR. "FIGHTING HARD, DIRTY, and NASTY". Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Anonymous said...

Marty why don't you try and play nice with everyone you have a beef/grudge with i.e. (APOA,Fire, and all the Big Unions within the City) that's where I would start and branch out from there (City Council). If you look back at your very first Administration and compare to today. Not even close. For some reason you have decided to step on, over, and around all those who supported you in the beginning. It doesn't last forever, and there are no "DO OVERS".

Anonymous said...

THE GOP will find out all the DIRT. "Fightin' Hard, Dirty, and Nasty". You know what they say "It doesn't matter if it's true or not. Perception is reality in this world." Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha aha

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Anonymous said...

Put OUT, or OUT of a job. That's how it works at City Hall.

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Anonymous said...

As much as I detest the little man, why would he put himself out there politically knowing that there's so much dirt out there on him--

especially if he actually told APD (or the Chief)to make his DV charges go away--that that's big time cover-up and probably rises to the federal level and at the very least, they could lose their jobs over that!

If that's all true, why would he & others jeopardize themselves like that?

Go figure!!!!

Anonymous said...

Someone who knows all these names--- what marty's baby momma's name? She was supposedly a city hall employee

Anonymous said...

maybe marty's baby momma goes by Dea Rankin

Anonymous said...

You mean Greg is doing Dea, the momma of Marty's baby. So Marty has people taking Dukes for walks etc., and Greg is raising Marty's waa-waa?
Marty's got it going don't he? Oh well they're all on the payroll so what the hell.

Anonymous said...

Scum always rises to the top!!!!

Anonymous said...

If that little boy is Marty's kid I reckon he has reached his full growth already!