Partisan

So, every day there are a few more tidbits about the firing of US Attorney David Iglesias. Anyone who still might believe the dismissal was because of competency issues can lay that notion to rest. Now that right wing New Mexico Republicans Pat Rogers and Micky Barnett have chimed in about their wishes to see Iglesias gone it should be a dead issue. Those two guys have never done anything in the political arena that wasn't extremely partisan in nature. I believe they wanted Iglesias out because they perceived him as too soft on Democrats. They say it was because Iglesias wouldn't move on voter fraud issues. We all know how good the GOP performs on those issues. Remember Florida and Ohio? I might be wrong, but I haven't heard of any Democrats wanting Igleisias' head. That would have at least made things look bi-partisan.

My friend Ned Farquhar started his regular column on the pages of the Albuquerque Journal today. It is refreshing to see his progressive take on things. It certainly will not be as strident as John Dendahl's rants in the Journal. Remember he left New Mexico in a snit after losing to Bill Richardson.

Finally, I did attend the State Air Quality hearing on the lame brained idea of burning Pinon Trees to power an electrical generating plant in Torrance County. The meeting was held in Estancia at the Community Center. The Center was built by the WPA in the 1930's.

You can see the beautiful hand hewn beams from the trees that were taken from the Manzano Mountains.

While the adobe building is beautiful it is totally lacking in acoustics. Even with my hearing aids in action I could not understand a word being said due to the echos set up by an inadequate sound system. Note to the Environment Department. Find a place where people can hear what is being said. The hearing was successful in that needed questions were asked on this whole fiasco.