New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D) asked the state’s Supreme Court to force the GOP-controlled Otero County Commission to certify the primary election results on Tuesday.
Bear in mind these pieces of shit are also garnering control of school boards as well. “Vote them out!” is going to become a quaint, meaningless phrase.
I was gratified to see they’re getting the legal system after these people. If this keeps up and gets worse, we’re going to have ungovernable parts of the country, like Afghanistan and Pakistan do. There is a system and you can’t just do any crazy thing you want.
Charge and arrest them for tampering with voting. Unless they can present factual evidence (that is not of their making) of a problem, they need to be removed and charged. Sorry, enough of this crap.
Couy Griffin is a friend of Rep. Yvette Herrell, the present Representative for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District and she lives in that county. The district went from a plus 10 Republican to slight edge for the Democrats in the latest redistricting. The district now has a rating as a toss-up. The Republicans cried foul in the redistricting battle and went to court. The judge ruled in favor of the Republicans; however, the judge allowed the new maps to stay in place as the lawsuit proceeds through the court process.
The first time Yvette Herrell ran for the seat, she lost to Xochitl Torres Small who was able to make sure she got the absentee votes in early in the Democratic county Dona Ana. The clerk in that county forgot that they had all those absentee ballots left to count and they were late in counting them. Herrell cried foul on that and went to court to get them tossed out and she lost the battle. Torres Small ran a lousy second campaign by being all over the place instead of focusing on a few things to run on and Herrell won.
Herrell assumed that she was going to have an easy re-election this time around until the new congressional maps came out and she lost her main Republican strongholds in eastern New Mexico. Those strongholds were broken up and placed in the other two districts, plus it diluted the power of the gas and oil industry here in New Mexico.
Back to Griffin, in March of this year he brought in the auditors from Arizona to audit the results in Otero County, even though Trump won the county by a huge margin. The county paid $50,000 to this outfit that Couy brought in. What made people mad and there were complaints, strange people were showing up on the doorsteps of people’s homes acting like they were county employees (they were not) asking weird questions. There were all these calls going into the sheriff’s department and to the county office that manages elections. They found out it was Couy’s audit group. The state Attorney General started looking into it and that is where we are at today.
I don’t know if they think that the Democrats are trying to steal the congressional seat from Herrell or if Herrell feels that way, but it is an interesting coincidence and it is New Mexico because there was talk that Herrell was into the “Q” and she was very close to Couy before he got into trouble with the Feds.
Seriously … hardly anyone in New Mexico ever dresses like that, or rides a horse. This is the 21st century. Although it’s not surprising that “Coupie” like his GQP compatriots longs for the 19th century, or earlier…