Tag: Ben Ray Lujan

The Story: Next year the people of New Mexico (a state that voted for Hillary Clinton for President) will elect a new US Senator to...

The outcomes of some hotly contested races remain in doubt, but election day has come and gone — and our political future looks to be as turbulent as the recent past. Nationally, we’ll have a more conservative U.S. Senate — the Republicans are on track to hold more than their current 51 of the 100 seats — and a House of Representatives where the Democrats have regained the majority with seats to spare. This means Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco could again be House speaker and be even more of a thorn in the side of President Trump. No Republican running for statewide office appears likely to log more than 45 percent of the vote. Prop. Prop. C, which would boost two business taxes to double the funding for homeless service, took 60 percent of the vote. •Beans a’plenty: The days when Blue Bottle was that cool little find on Linden Alley are long gone. Purchased last year by Nestlé, Blue Bottle announced Tuesday it will open an outpost next year in South Korea — adding to 56 in the U.S. and 10 in Japan. Hayakawa, who in 1976 was elected by Californians to the U.S. Senate.

Congressman Ben Ray Lujan, democrat from New Mexico and chairman of the DCCC, reacts to news of family migrant separation and the Trump administration's 'zero tolerance policy': "If the President is truly in charge, there’s nothing that stops him from…