New Mexico Mercury

Guess who’s been rubbing elbows with David Koch at the lil ‘ol Country Club? And guess who got the royal nod from the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP): the Commerical Real Estate Development Association? The lengthy name alone shows just how important these folks really are! For instance, the New Mexico branch is currently headed up by Bruce Beebe, Wells Fargo VP for regional business banking.

Mercury readers, on Nov. 29 last year then pres. of the New Mexico NAIOP, Dale Dekker, wrote a letter endorsing this mystery person to run for city council in District 2 as a pro-business candidate.  If you guessed this mystery person is good ol’ Uberprogressive, District 2 candidate Rox Meyers, you were right!

Rox has come to make a startling and deeply self-effacing admission in her recent mailer, though, that doggonit she really doesn’t know much at all about this counciltype business, come to think of it, but, aw shucks, she’s a quick and eager learner and she’s a “fresh face.”

Rox is sitting on a pile of cash that’s probably stinkin up the place. Big piles of cash that might make Walter White smile, bags of money used to purchase the public franchise just do smell kinda rotten and corrupt, even though they are currently permitted under the glorious provisions of Citizen’s United.
Roxanna’s best buddy, Mr. Roundabout himself, Jerry Ginsburg has dumped another $40 K after his initial $40 K into the campaign. If you were planning to ask Jerry to take you to lunch, maybe now’s the time. Folks, Jerry just threw into this election about two years of your salary if you’re lucky enough to have a job. Let’s hope you are also lucky enough not to have anything even remotely to do with the government that the Republicans like Roxanna Meyers always want to shut down, strangle, and kill.

Oh, and there was another $5 grand tossed at Rox by former Environmental Planning Commission Chair and developer Doug Peterson, but that has nothing to do with anticipated business somewhere down the line. Nope. No suasion here. Just pure citizenship. Concern for our community.

In view of all this moulah, Rox’s followup mailer is just a sheer disappointment, a reissue of the baby puke yellow one claiming Rox is a progressive ‘cause she went to a few picnics and met the folks, whereas her opponent, evil Isaac Benton didn’t come to a single one, didn’t eat a single burger, not even a single hot dog.

Maybe the energy, that bright, fresh creativity and verve are all sagging a bit under the corpse weight of all that rotting money thrown at this crude character assassination campaign in the guise of an election. I’m sure local Repub. admonger Doug Turner and his pals in Cal. will have plenty to do with Jerry’s dough, if it really is Jerry’s dough. All the trolls are probably slaving away at the slandermill day and night right now just to dump more and more dreck on Ike Benton, Rox’s able opponent who does have experience, and who does have credentials.

Benton supporters have been forced to make their own signs in order to replace the signs that have been torn up and stolen by thugs unknown who probably also are really “fresh faces” in the neighborhood.

I hate to think of poor Jerry Ginsburg decked out in his cowboy hat and his shit kicker boots, and driving his Caddy, sneaking around District 2 in the dead of night and vengefully ripping up Benton signs.  That’s one “fresh face” I’d rather avoid.