Here's some exciting musical news: The Drive-By Truckers and James McMurtry are scheduled to play the Santa Fe Brewing Company on Tuesday June 17. No details on tickets yet, so stay tuned. The Truckers played here last year as part of their their quasi- acoustic "Dirt Underneath" tour. But this year they're a full-fledged electric band, which is how I like them best.
June looks like a great month for the Brewing Co.
On Friday June 6, X is playing there with the Detroit Cobras as an opening act.
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican April 16, 2008
Third Congressional District candidate Benny Shendo Jr. is getting a lot of support — and campaign contributions — from Indian pueblos and American Indian officials. That’s not surprising. Shendo was born and raised in Jemez Pueblo and until late last year served as Gov. Bill Richardson’s secretary of Indian affairs. If elected, he’d be New Mexico’s first Indian congressman. But he’s not the only candidate in that crowded Democratic primary who’s getting financial support from American Indians. Ben Ray Luján collected some Indian money also, according to federal campaign finance reports filed this week. Shendo, who reported $113,626 in contributions during the three-month quarter ending March 31, got money from tribal governments, including $6,900 each from Jemez and Isleta pueblos; $2,300 from Acoma Pueblo and $250 from Tesuque Pueblo. He’s also received money from a couple of out-of-state tribes: the Ute Mountain Utes in Colorado and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians in California, each of which gave $2,300.
And there are individuals who work with Indian governments, agencies and other institutions. Eddie Gomez, executive director of Isleta Pueblo, gave $4,600, and his wife, Theresa Gomez, who is deputy secretary of the state Indian Affairs Department, gave another $2,300; Richard Williams of Broomfield, Colo., executive director of the American Indian College Fund, gave Shendo two contributions totaling $2,685; Kai Gachupin, president of The Hemi Group, which provides jobs to American Indians living on and near Jemez Pueblo, gave $2,300; Joel Matthew Frank, an ambassador with the Seminole Tribe in Florida, gave $500; Herman Agoyo, realty officer for Ohkay Owingeh, gave a total of $500; and Sarah J. Yepa of Albuquerque, a manager with the federal Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians, contributed $250.
And some guy named Benny Shendo, who is running for Congress, pitched in $10,000 to the campaign.
Luján, collected a total of $328,740 during the last quarter.
He didn’t get as much from American Indians as Shendo did, and what he did get represented a smaller percentage of his total than was Shendo’s. But it wasn’t chump change either.
Ohkay Owingeh gave Luján $2,300 as did the Jicarilla Apache Nation, while Zia Pueblo gave $1,000. Among individual contributors, Gov. Robert Benevidez of Isleta Pueblo gave $2,300; Dwayne Virgint, chief operating officer of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, contributed $1,000; and Richard Jaramillo, principal of Santa Fe Indian School, donated $1,000. Hitting up the lawmakers: Luján scored well in getting contributions from people who say the phrase “Yes sir, Mr. Speaker” far more than the average person. I’m talking, of course about Democratic lawmakers in the state House of Representatives, who answer to Luján’s dad, House Speaker Ben Luján of Nambé.
Among the representatives contributing to the younger Luján’s campaign were Joni Gutierrez of Mesilla and George Hanosh of Gallup (each $1,000); Al Park, Dan Silva and Henry Kiki Saavedra of Albuquerque (each $500); Jim Trujillo of Santa Fe ($500); and Ed Sandoval of Albuquerque ($200).
Also, Brian Egolf Jr., who faces no primary or general election opponent in his campaign to become the next representative for Santa Fe’s House District 47, contributed a total of $2,300 to Luján’s campaign. The speaker kicked in $1,000 to his son’s campaign.
The younger Luján did even better among those who lobby in the state Legislature. Ed Mahr, Robert Rivera, Ricardo Barros, Bob Barberous, Dan Weaks ($2,300 each); Tom Horan ($1,300); former House Speaker Raymond Sanchez, former Senate President Pro Tem Richard Romero and Maurice Bonal ($1,000 each ); Carroll Cagle, Natasha Ning and Fred O’Cheskey ($500 each).
The “Bitter Battle”: U.S. Rep. Tom Udall has a free ride through the Democratic U.S. Senate primary in New Mexico. But the national Republicans on Wednesday launched an attack against him — and six other Democratic Senate candidates — and are taking a shot at presidential hopeful Barack Obama in the process.
No, it’s not a TV attack ad. Those things cost money. We’ll be seeing plenty of those by general election season.
It’s what the National Republican Senatorial Committee calls a “video press release,” an e-mail that links to near identical ads on YouTube.
The ad shows Obama talking while playing the now infamous comment that people in small towns “get bitter; they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” which Obama made at a private fundraiser in (gasp!) San Francisco. The video portion isn’t quite in synch with the audio, like those old Japanese monster movies overdubbed in English.
Then Udall’s face appears in an upper corner, identifying him not as a congressman but as a “Democratic Superdelegate.”
“Will he cast his vote for Barack Obama?” a superimposed text asks as pensive piano music begins to swell, “a man who calls small-town America bitter?” You can see the video HERE.
Udall, who indeed is a superdelegate, has been uncommitted. His campaign had no immediate response.
Closing in on cloture: A couple of readers, who apparently remember their civics classes better than I do, pointed out a mistake in my story about the U.S. Senate race Wednesday. I mistakenly said national Democrats want to elect Udall to move “closer to the veto-proof number of 60 Democratic senators.”
That’s wrong. Overriding a veto takes a two-thirds majority, which would be 67 senators. Sixty is the magic number to invoke cloture, which is used to break the filibusters that block legislation from reaching a vote in the Senate.
I’m sure I had a good excuse for missing class the day I was supposed to have learned that.
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Here's that Republican video aimed Udall. And to catch the Defenders of Wildlife video aimed at Heather Wilson and Steve Pearce, CLICK HERE:
The latest batch of campaign finacne reports, covering the quarter that began Jan. 1 and ended March 31, were due yesterday.
In the New Mexico U.S. Senate race, Democrat Tom Udall ended up with more than the two GOP contenders together. Udall has $2.6 millioon in the bank and chances are by the end of the primary, Heather Wilson and Steve Pearce will have close to nothing. But does that really matter in the long run. Read my story HERE.
Meanwhile in the Democratic Third Congressional District, Ben Ray Lujan outraised everyone in the last quarter -- $328,000 -plus, compared with $113,00 for Benny Shendo, Jr. and $109,000 for Don Wiviott. However, when you count the $850,00 or so Wiviott has given himself, Lujan's total is still way behind the Santa Fe developer's. Be prepared for wall-to-wall t.v. commericals for this race coming soon. Read more about this race HERE
Sunday, April 13, 2008 KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell Now Simulcasting 90.7 FM, and our new, stronger signal, 101.1 FM email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres Yabba Ding Ding by Joe King Carrasco y Los Coronas Big Zombie by The Mekons Sea of Blasphemy by The Black Lips Nothing Works by Rich Deluxe Playing in the Dirt by Electric Koolade Digging Up My Date by The Blood Drained Cows Bad Man by The Oblivians We Repel Each Other by The Reigning Sound Our Girls by Reverend Beat-Man Wreck My Flow by The Dirtbombs
Apocalypse Girl by Simon Stokes Don't Slander Me by Roky Erikson Party by Bayou City Beach Party Some Kinda Nut by The Moon Men with Link Wray Patches Rides the Rails by Deadbolt Beers and Tears by The Come n' Go Feels Good to Feel by The Fleshtones The World's a Mess It's In My Kiss by X Stagolee Set Stack a Lee Blues by Mississippi John Hurt Staggolee by Pacific Gas & Electric Stack Shot Billy by The Black Keys Wrong 'em Boyo by The Clash Stack-O-Lee by Keb Mo' Stack O Lee by Bassholes Staggerlee by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Stack-O-Lee by Samuel L. Jackson
1959 by Patti Smith Paradise by Firewater No Friend Oh by Xiu Xiu Sealed With a Kiss by Deerhoof Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Hard Times by Little Axe CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Friday, April 11, 2008 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
Now Simulcasting 90.7 FM, and our new, stronger signal, 101.1 FM email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos Stranger in Town by Dave Alvin Tongued Tied by Simon Stokes Clown of the Town by Rev. Beat-Man Take Off Your Mask by Possed by Paul James Manana by Joe King Carasco y Los Coronas I'm Sorry Huston by Drive-By Truckers Skip to My Lou by The cast of Bonanza
Sittin' on a Jury (Prologue)/My Final Plea by The Wilders Prisoner's Birthday by John Lilly A Man Like Me by Roger Miller Peroxide Blonde by Hank Penny A Wreck of a Man by Artie Hill & The Long Gone Daddies Gun Sale at the Church by The Beat Farmers Up to My Old Tricks Again by Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars Sting Ray by Jim Lauderdale Tara's Song by Santa Fe All Stars Ruination Day Set April the 14th part 1 by Gillian Welch The Titantic by Bessie Jones, Hobart Smith & The Georgia Sea Island Singers Abraham Lincoln by Leadbelly The Great Dust Storm by Woody Guthrie Ruination Day by Gillian Welch Legend of the U.S.S. Titantic by Jaime Brokett Boothe Killed Lincoln (Fiddle Tune) by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Mary's Bar by Kell Robertson May You Never Be Alone by Hank Williams Cynthia Margaret by Malcom Holcome Statue of Jesus by The Gear Daddies If You Don't Change Your Mind by The Waco Brothers Miss Me by Eleni Mandell Loving You by Elvis Presley CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
And I'm not even the first one to refer to Nigerian e-mail scams when talking about Richardson's post-candidacy fund-raising.
Columnist Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times today published this must-read.
This was the most shameless request for money I'd ever gotten from someone not living in Nigeria. Richardson was asking me for money not so that my interests would be reflected during his presidency, but just because he's a good guy in a spot of bother. If this works, I might be getting e-mails for the rest of my life from Richardson. "It's Bill again. Bad run at the blackjack table, but I'm pretty sure I can get out of it :)"
What's really funny though is that Stein actually got Richardson on the phone. Although local journalists usually get to talk directly to Richardson only if they can catch him coming out of the Capitol tv studio after appearing on CNN or Fox News, those from national news organizations never seem to have trouble reaching him.
In other news, Rep. Tom Udall released his latest quarter fundraising total for his U.S. Senate -- $1.3 million. I haven't heard from Republicans Heather Wilson or Steve Pearce yet.
Meanwhile, back to the Roundhouse, Kate has been blogging about the dreaded special session. HEREis is the latest.
