New Mexico

New Mexico Politician Frolicked In Philippines Sex District

Nick R. Martin | April 27, 2012, 6:08AM

Bernalillo County Commissioner Michael Wiener poses with 'bar girls' in a Philippines sex district.

You probably have never heard of New Mexico politician Michael Wiener. Neither had a Seattle photographer when he ran into him one night last month in a Philippines sex district.

Wiener was spending time in the Angeles City red light district when he apparently stopped a photographer on the street to take a picture of him posing with a quartet of scantily clad women in an area well known as a hub of prostitution.

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New Mexico

Santa Fe Bandit Shoots Up Speed-Enforcement Vehicle (VIDEO)

Igor Bobic | April 21, 2012, 8:55PM

One Santa Fe man is fighting back against the city's program to crack down on people who speed by taking the matter into his own hands -- literally.

A video released Friday shows an elderly gentleman clad in a white nightgown pull up next to an unmanned speed-enforcement vehicle at about 1:20 a.m and casually unload five gunshots into the windshield before proceeding to drive off, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican. The man appears to yell something after firing the final shot.

The police use the unmanned vehicles as mobile traffic cameras to catch speeding motorists at places they wouldn't necessarily expect. While the tactic may be an effective enforcement mechanism, critics have "complained about the 'Big Brother' aspect of being videotaped on public streets," according to the New Mexican.

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Daniel Salinas

N.M. Official Wins Mayoral Race Despite Charges Over Topless Dancer Blackmail Plot

Jillian Rayfield | March 7, 2012, 5:51PM

Residents of Sunland Park, N.M., just elected a brand new mayor -- too bad he's not allowed in City Hall because of some pending extortion charges over an alleged plot to blackmail his opponent with the help of a topless dancer.

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voter fraud

Republican Commits Voter Fraud By Registering Dog As A Democrat

Ryan J. Reilly | March 1, 2012, 2:42PM

Updated: 2:50PM

A Republican man in New Mexico wanted to show how easy he thought it was to commit voter fraud. So the Albuquerque man did just that: committed voter registration fraud by registering his dog, Buddy, to vote.

Local news station KOB Eyewitness News 4 in New Mexico reported on the man's stunt this week.

"They should verify. Somebody should have verified this information and somebody should have come out and took a look at exactly who it was," the unidentified man told the news station. "But I made up a birth date, and I made up a social security number and I had a voter registration card in my hand for Buddy two weeks later."

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Martin Resendiz

New Mexico Officials Face Extortion Charges For Alleged Topless Dancer Blackmail Plot

Jillian Rayfield | February 27, 2012, 12:41PM

Two city officials in Sunland Park, New Mexico were arrested on extortion charges after they allegedly tried to blackmail a political opponent by sending a stripper to his office and secretly videotaping the encounter.

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Martin Resendiz

Charges Of Topless Dancing Dirty Tricks Fly In New Mexico Mayor's Race

Jillian Rayfield | February 24, 2012, 12:59PM

The race to replace a New Mexico mayor -- who once signed $1 million in architecture contracts while drunk -- is now plagued with allegations that one candidate tried to set up another by hiring a topless dancer to go to his office, and have the incident filmed.

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Martin Resendiz

NM Mayor: I Was Quite Drunk When I Signed Those $1 Million Contracts

Jillian Rayfield | August 4, 2011, 2:09PM

Martin Resendiz, Mayor of Sunland Park, NM

Ever have one of those nights where you wake up with a hangover and $1 million worth of architecture contracts?

No? Martin Resendiz (D), the Mayor of Sunland Park, New Mexico, certainly has.

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Gun-Toters

New Mexican Tea Partiers Bring Guns To Anti-Obama Rally

Justin Elliott | January 4, 2010, 10:21AM

A gun-bearing protester in Alamogordo, New Mexico Saturday.

A group of tea partiers and Second Amendment activists in New Mexico decided to kick off the new decade with a show of arms at a demonstration protesting President Obama's "socialist" policies, according to local media reports via Think Progress.

Over three hundred people attended the protest in Alamogordo in southern New Mexico, which was organized by the Otero Tea Party Patriots and a group called the Second Amendment Task Force.

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