Crime Thread - Santa Fe (Silver City, Taos: middle-class, condo, violent crime) - New Mexico (NM) -Santa Fe County - Page 4 - City-Data Forum

Towanda · 11-20-2006, 01:53 PM

The liberalism is one of two downsides for me, the other being that it will be harder to see Kansas City Chiefs football and Kansas Jayhawk basketball.

However ... I am a conservative Republican too ... and I plan to GET INVOLVED when I get to NM.

greatdanes · 11-20-2006, 04:34 PM

For those who really feel the need, New Mexico State Police will issue you a CCW after completion of a fairly extensive training course. NM, I understand, also honors CCW licences from about 20 other states. You can obtain this information from a web site:

PACKING.ORG

CCW's may seem extreme to some of you out there, but they are common enough in most south west state. Some people I know view CCW's as they do their life insurance policy - they never, ever want to have to use these things, but if you ever need the protection, at least it's there.

Cathy4017 · 11-20-2006, 07:19 PM

However ... I am a conservative Republican too ... and I plan to GET INVOLVED when I get to NM.

You and me both.....!!!

Look out, New Mexico.....LOL!!!

Crackerjack · 11-21-2006, 01:31 AM

Yes Cathy, it seems that is all you get in NM is a lot of talk. I'd like to see them walk the walk. Take Wilson (R) and Madrid (D). They slung mud at each other the whole time and I don't see a winner either way you look at it, they never talked the issues, just who was the worst person. I think politicians who don't have any agendas, sling mud at the other to get people to not notice they don't have any thing to put out there. In NM, you have most people not voting because regardless of the parties, it still is the same old thing. Honestly if I were to say one thing I don't like about NM, it would be politics, right or left, it's a no win situation there.

greatdanes · 11-21-2006, 09:38 AM

I agree with Crackerjack - most NM politics stinks! All of the 2006 runs were mud baths - beats needing to discuss a "PLAN" for the real problems. I am not Dem or Rupublican, guess I'm a member of the Cynical Party. I vote, bur rarely for someone I trust, usually it come down to 1) the lesser of 2 evils OR 2) throw the bums out and bring in the new bums.
Talk about d@#ing with faint praise, but about the best I can say about NM politics is that at least we aren't Louisiana.
Great to have others to look down on, isn't it, but we won't talk about the other 48 looking down on us.

Cathy4017 · 11-21-2006, 01:54 PM

In NM, you have most people not voting because regardless of the parties, it still is the same old thing. Honestly if I were to say one thing I don't like about NM, it would be politics, right or left, it's a no win situation there.

I was sorely tempted to stay home in TX...I am disgusted with all of them, both Repubs and Dems. Can I ask about Domenici? Has he, as a long-time senator, done much for NM, IYO?

guess I'm a member of the Cynical Party. I vote, bur rarely for someone I trust, usually it come down to 1) the lesser of 2 evils OR 2) throw the bums out and bring in the new bums.

Do I hear that!! I had to hold my nose big-time when I went to vote....but I nearly always vote, nevertheless.

Towanda · 11-21-2006, 02:47 PM

Well. Every single candidate I voted for here in Kansas on Nov. 7 LOST.

So how bad can NM be?

Crackerjack · 11-22-2006, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by greatdanes

I agree with Crackerjack - most NM politics stinks! All of the 2006 runs were mud baths - beats needing to discuss a "PLAN" for the real problems. I am not Dem or Rupublican, guess I'm a member of the Cynical Party. I vote, bur rarely for someone I trust, usually it come down to 1) the lesser of 2 evils OR 2) throw the bums out and bring in the new bums.
Talk about d@#ing with faint praise, but about the best I can say about NM politics is that at least we aren't Louisiana.
Great to have others to look down on, isn't it, but we won't talk about the other 48 looking down on us.

I am also a member of the Cynical Party too Greatdanes! At least we don't get disappointed do we, because we don't expect all the promises made by the politicians to actually happen?!

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I was sorely tempted to stay home in TX...I am disgusted with all of them, both Repubs and Dems. Can I ask about Domenici? Has he, as a long-time senator, done much for NM, IYO? by Cathy4017

Cathy, Pete seems like a nice guy. He has been Senator in NM, it seems like forever and a day. I know he has a slew of kids, something like 8, I think 6 daughters and 2 sons. You got to give him credit alone for raising 6 girls! He is Roman Catholic. Anyway, I know when he was young, he was a math teacher in ABQ and then he got a law degree. He wanted to be governor but lost and went on to win as Senator. I am not a proponent on nuclear energy. He has always been pro nuke and I think there are better alternatives to nuclear. Oh, he does champion the cause for mentally ill people, so thumbs up for that.

Towanda · 11-22-2006, 10:09 AM

Cathy ~ Now that we are moving in the coming year to NM, I am also starting to follow the NM news ... I have an awful lot of learning to do. I subscribe online to the Santa Fe New Mexican and read it daily, so I am getting my education.

Cathy4017 · 11-22-2006, 05:06 PM

Towanda:

Well, since I've been all over New Mexico most of my life, it's not a culture shock to me!! I'm taking the Farmington paper, just to see what's going on. I've never been to the city itself, but I've been all around it in all directions. We used to go to Durango a couple of times a year....and we'd come up through Santa Fe and Chama.

Santa Fe is wonderful......