Thanks Everyone

We would just like to thank our readers for helping us to defeat Jim Baca at the polls. We've managed to keep a politician we heavily disagreed with out of office.

Don't Elect will be back before the elections in '08 and you can expect the same investigative blogging that uncovers the dirt behind questionable politicians.

Please allow us to thank you again for reading. We hope to see you back here in '08!

Re: Dogs and Cats Living Together

Questioning priorities is something I frequently find myself doing in dealing with Jim Baca. But today, I found myself wondering if he has priorities?

Today, he leads talking about how great it is that the state legislature has allocated $420k for some kind of peace conference, that not even Mr. Baca has heard of. Normally, I'd research it before mentioning it, but if Baca can label it good without knowing it, I am free to critize the spending of funds on it. But the time it takes, manpower to run it and the four-hundred-and-twenty-thousand-dollars it will costs to host are all somehow good things to Mr. Baca. Maybe this is the kind of thing he looks forward to hosting in the ever-relevent State Land Commisioner's office.

But then, he launches into a non-sensical argument against concealed weapons he had years ago with the legislator who sponsored the bill allowing the conference. And while Mr. Baca is clearly anti-concealed weapon, I think he made a fairly good argument for them. So I'll leave the concept alone, and stick to wondering why he brought it up at all?

Finally, Mr. Baca's last post about a change in candidate for the Republican candidiate for govenor has gone unanswered by this blog. I don't know anything about it, and don't care to research it. Govenor Richardson is doing a fine job and I don't intend to vote against him. But in the comments on that particular post, Mr. Baca explains his refusal to capitalize our President's name. It seems Mr. Baca is so full of contempt for President Bush that he cannot even respect his existance as a person on this planet. Which is itself a problem (I shudder to think what will happen if he is elected and adopts that attitude towards the executives of the gas and oil companies he'll be working with as Land Commisioner) but leads to a funny revelation: If Mr. Baca refuses to capitalize 'bush' because of a lack of respect, but will capitalize Karl Rove's name (as evidenced even in the same blog post!), does that idicate that Mr. Baca respects Karl Rove more than George W. Bush?

Re: Office Work

It seems Mr. Baca is up to his old tricks. For about two weeks surrounding the primary, he steered clear of his Anti-Bush views. Earlier this week, he mentioned "bush". But it was on topic and so I chose to ignore it. But now he's back, full-force. When he so casually mentions, "I think I'll mosey over to the anti-bush meeting this afternoon in downtown Albuquerque," my head just about explodes.

First of all, he immediatly implicated Congresswoman Heather Wilson. Criticize her if you must, but don't just randomly slam her for no reason.

Second of all, though President Bush clearly bothers Mr. Baca, he won't say why. He might give a blanket statement on land conversation. He might group the president and "his cronies"[1] together and preform the blanket slam. Or he might make a distortion of reality and implicate Bush like he's doing now with his poll. But just try to get Mr. Baca to say why he is so adamantly anti-Bush.

But finally, it rather bothers me that Baca refuses to capitalize 'Bush.' He has a shift key. He'll capitlize other people, cities, event, but not Bush. Dislike him, campaign against him, do what you will, but capitalizing the 'B' in 'Bush' is a matter of basic, human respect. As anti-Baca as I am, I still capitalize his name. Why don't we keep this mature, Mr. Baca?

Re: typical

That is exactly the kind of fiscal responsibility we need in government. How exactly could this kind of behavior ever be considered a good thing?

Re: Memorial Day

This morning, while reading Mr. Baca's blog, I was surprised. He was actually just observing Memorial Day! It all seemed honest and noble enough.

And then Mr. Baca attacked President Bush. Somehow, Mr. Baca sees the Swift Boat Veterans as a conspiracy of the Bush Administration, Hell-bent on attacking all Vietnam veterans. Not just Kerry, as the Swift Vets themselves say.

Somehow, Mr. Baca just thrives on attacking our government. Not even just those he's running against, but anyone in any branch of the government that disagrees with him. And more than just disagreeing with them, Mr. Baca disrespects President Bush and Mr. Rove by forgoing even the capitalization of their names. That seems very close minded for a liberal.

Re: More Endorsements

It seems the Albuquerque Journal had the good sense not to endorse Jim Baca. I subscribe. You should, too. But at least he can cling to his endorsement from the most liberal city in New Mexico. Just try to keep that in mind while you weigh Baca's Santa Fe New Mexican endorsement.

Re: Never Ending Story

Just like Mr. Baca claims, there is a never ending story. Its about environmentalists claiming there is nothing we can do to ease oil production.

Mr. Baca's worry, it seems, is that a certain Californian Congressman has tried to introduce legislation to drill oil out of ANWR. In arguing that drilling ANWR is futile, he points out that our United States consumes 25% of the world's oil but only sits on 3%. According to this statistic from the US DOE, cited on Wikipedia, we actually sit on top of 17% of the worlds oil. That's nearly six times what Baca quotes! Furthermore, from the same sources, ANWR is the largest deposit of oil in North America. Which makes me wonder why Mr. Baca opposes self-substinence for our oil needs?

He quotes things he's heard from environementalist friends, claiming, basically, that saving money on oil is not worth the problems it will cause for polar bears. Others disagree! According to an Associated Press article from 2002, the Secretary of the Interior says that won't happen.

We should presue alternative energy options. However, it is delusional to think we can just give up on oil until an alternative is found. We need years to develop, and years (maybe decades!) more to move the bulk of the nation's autos onto it.

Are these kind of solutions what we should expect from Land Commisioner Jim Baca?