A Month in Review
You Can't Make this S___ Up
I have been interviewing local candidates (on To The Point with Mick Rich on KKOB (96.3 FM and 770 AM) at noon). I asked a straightforward question: “What is your number one priority if you are elected?” Almost every candidate had a priority. Only a couple of candidates quietly responded that they had none. I did not accept “none” and followed up with more questions.
On CNN’s interview with Kamala Harris, accompanied by her sidekick Tim Walz. From the MSN article, "So, what would you do? Day One?" Bash pressed. To which Harris said, its going to be about one implementing my plan for what I call an opportunity economy." While past presidents issued many Executive Orders on Day One, Harris, Walz, and their staff could not list one Executive Order she would issue on Day One. Dana Bash did not follow up on Harris’s non-answer.
Unlike Dana Bash on CNN, no one gets a pass at To The Point with Mick Rich on KKOB (96.3 FM | 770 AM) at noon on Saturdays.
Why were no photographs of all the Santa Fe Democrats and heads of environmental non-profits pushing the plunger for the toppling of the San Juan Power Plant published in New Mexico’s newspapers?
Ten to twenty years ago, New Mexico’s environmental non-profits demanded hundreds of millions be spent cleaning the exhaust stacks of the Four-Corner to protect the air for the area's national parks. New Mexico’s environmental non-profits celebrated the toppling of the San Juan Generating Station exhaust stacks this past week. All declared that the Four Corners area air is now pollution-free without publishing before-and-after photographs and air quality reports. Why aren’t the Santa Fe Democrats and the Environmental Non-Profits proving how much cleaner and clearer the Four Corner’s air is?
While finishing my backpacking trip this past week, I noticed hazy skies as I hiked into Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park generates little air pollution, yet its skies are hazy. The air pollution from the metropolitan areas of Southern California and the California Central Valley is carried east by global wind currents into Yosemite National Park.
At our latitude, wind currents move the air from West to East. An example is why we can smell wildfire smoke in California and Arizona. The same applies to California’s pollution; reaching New Mexico and the Four Corners area only takes days. I expect there is little difference in the air being clearer and cleaner before and after the destruction of the San Juan Generating station because of West Coast air pollution.
No photographs were taken of the people responsible for the destruction of the San Juan Generating station because they wanted to remain anonymous during future rolling blackouts. No evidence was presented of how much clearer and cleaner the air is because it isn’t.
Santa Fe Democrats lamented Albuquerque Mayor Keller’s lousy luck and the loss of their eleven loyal voters. On August 30, the Albuquerque Journal published a glowing article with a photograph of a smiling Mayor Keller confirming that Keller would run for an unprecedented third term in 2025. Two days later, the Albuquerque Journal article reported that eleven people were murdered on the streets of Albuquerque in one week.
Mayor Keller’s challenge is his administration cannot reclassify homicide to a lesser crime or not report the homicide at all. After all, murder is murder. Unlike property crime, assault or attempted rape can be reclassified as a lesser crime or not just reported at all.
What Santa Fe Democrats forget, no matter how bad Mayor Keller’s week was. It was nowhere as bad as the eleven families who were mourning the loss of their loved ones.
Meanwhile, Santa Fe Democrats celebrate how many of their candidates are unopposed in the upcoming election. This explains why New Mexico has been at the bottom of all states for so long: “If nothing changes, nothing changes.”
Time for Term Limits.
Tune in to To the Point with Mick Rich on KKOB 96.3 FM, 770 AM, or online at KKOB.Com starting at noon every Saturday. This Saturday, I will discuss the challenges of finishing (the last segment, 60 miles, and 12,000’ elevation gain) the John Muir Trail (total of 210 miles and 47,000’ elevation gain) and what I discovered along the way.