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Patrick Davis wasn't lucky enough to be born in New Mexico but he was smart enough to stay. He came to New Mexico by way of Washington, DC where he served as a police officer, later trading in Capitol Hill for the Land of Enchantment. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and is now a proud Aggie, holding a graduate degree from New Mexico State University.
After years of working with New Mexico media and being active in political and social campaigns, Pat became the founding Executive Director of ProgressNow New Mexico - now the state's largest progressive advocacy group with more than 100,000 members across the state who have taken more than 1,000,000 actions for progressive causes.
Meet the secret Republican infrastructure buying Albuquerque’s elections
What happens when you get caught hiding a Republican political-hack firm inside your non-partisan global public relations firm? Albuquerque's DW Turner/Agenda Communications is about to find out.
Weeks ago we started asking questions about big money donor Jerry Ginsburg who gave $40,000 to start a special interest PAC attacking progressive City Councilor Isaac Benton.
That PAC reported using Ginsburg’s money to hire a shadowy California business to run the campaign. Yesterday, Benton’s campaign shed some light on the shadowy group supporting his Republican opponent...
Continue reading...Three NM legislators outed as ALEC members
14. August 2013
While the Koch Brothers were wining and dining Governor Martinez and some big name Republicans here in New Mexico last week, one group of New Mexico legislators were high-tailing it out of town for some wining and dining of their own.
The shadowy corporate lobbying group ALEC held a closed-door convention last week in Chicago and this week they sent an expletive filled public letter –supposedly signed by 300 ALEC member legislators who attended the national ALEC conference - to a US Senator trying to investigate their involvement in passing “Stand Your Ground” laws in Florida and pushing them on states like New Mexico...
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20. September 2013
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