December 23, 2009
Valencia County Commission Chairman Pedro Rael said on Monday that he will seek reelection to his seat in 2010. Rael said his primary reason for seeking reelection is to continue working on the hospital project. “I would like to see the hospital issue, the mill levy issue, bear some fruit at some point,” he said. [...]
December 16, 2009
In what might have been their first public appearance together since the two became political rivals, a state legislator and his primary election challenger met face-to-face last night during a board of education meeting in Belen. The Belen Consolidated Schools Board of Education invited legislators to provide the district with an update on the coming [...]
December 10, 2009
Valencia County Commissioner David Medina, who has served almost three years on the county commission, announced last night that he will seek reelection to his seat on the commission. “I want to publicly say I will be seeking reelection for commissioner in District 3 this next election,” Medina said at the end of last night’s [...]
December 09, 2009
Gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh today began raising funds to put another campaign bus on the road, less than two weeks after the RV being used as a mobile campaign headquarters was destroyed in a Rio Communities fire. The original campaign bus, called Freedom1, was owned by Tom Greer, a local who works with the Weh [...]
December 01, 2009
The Allen Weh for Governor campaign bus, which was destroyed in a storage facility fire in Rio Communities on Friday night, didn’t just destroy a local man’s RV, but also claimed miles of 9/11 memories and more than 30 hours of another local’s artwork. “The history of this bus and it’s 40,000 miles on the [...]
August 17, 2009
Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh spoke to Valencia County Republicans during a Saturday morning breakfast in Belen, telling them he wants to be Santa Fe’s chief executive so he can stop growing government involvement in people’s lives. “I don’t think the founding fathers ever intended for it to be this way,” Weh said. “And every [...]