Posts with the tag Joe Monahan
Two items today… Marjorie at M-Pyre poses a burning question: whatever ever happened to Monahan's essay contest? Plus... Carville lobs more insults at Bill Richardson and the Gov responds.
Marjorie calls out Monahan
Yes, Marjorie at M-Pyre blog reminded us today that the date for Joe Monahan's lobbyist sponsored essay contest (publicity stunt) quietly came and went without so much as a grunt from Concern Troll Joe.
As you will recall, Monahan was savaged by a firestorm of protest from the blogosphere when he tried to peddle the peculiar notion he claimed to have gotten from an anonymous Roundhouse source (his "alligator") that the main obstacle to achieving key ethics reforms in New Mexico is the efforts of ethics reformers themselves! His response to his takedown by the bloggers was to announce a lobbyist sponsored "essay contest" for college students to come up with a lobbying/PR plan for ethics reform.
Here's Marjorie's money quote:
(the complete post here)
(And in an earlier post here, the conjecture was offered up that Monahan's alligator source is Bruce Donisthorpe.)
The Carville vs. Richardson slugfest
James Carville just won't let it go, continuing to fire shots at Bill Richardson over the NM Governor's recent endorsement of Barack Obama. Read More »
Marjorie calls out Monahan
Yes, Marjorie at M-Pyre blog reminded us today that the date for Joe Monahan's lobbyist sponsored essay contest (publicity stunt) quietly came and went without so much as a grunt from Concern Troll Joe.
As you will recall, Monahan was savaged by a firestorm of protest from the blogosphere when he tried to peddle the peculiar notion he claimed to have gotten from an anonymous Roundhouse source (his "alligator") that the main obstacle to achieving key ethics reforms in New Mexico is the efforts of ethics reformers themselves! His response to his takedown by the bloggers was to announce a lobbyist sponsored "essay contest" for college students to come up with a lobbying/PR plan for ethics reform.
Here's Marjorie's money quote:
The time has never been more right for comprehensive ethics reform, given the highly publicized ethics violations and corruption in this state. But according to Monahan, we should take baby steps over many years, because not only were legislators not swayed when they should have been, the public is too confused by the proposals and therefore can't weigh in adequately. As you may remember, I couldn't help but ask in response what person in their right mind doesn't know what "campaign contribution limits" means? The fact is that the public is a lot savvier than Joe likes to suggest.
(the complete post here)
(And in an earlier post here, the conjecture was offered up that Monahan's alligator source is Bruce Donisthorpe.)
The Carville vs. Richardson slugfest
James Carville just won't let it go, continuing to fire shots at Bill Richardson over the NM Governor's recent endorsement of Barack Obama. Read More »
The firestorm of blogosphere pushback against Joe Monahan for his attack on ethics reform advocates continued this week M-pyre, DFNM). Stung by the criticism - and the less than fawning reception he received during his appearance on the Insight New Mexico radio call-in show - Monahan responded with a pivot-and-spin defense. Read More »
Hear Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino, Representative Moe Maestas and blogger Joe Monahan chat with Insight New Mexico hosts, Heather Brewer and Javier Benavidez about the recent 2008 New Mexico legislative session at http://podcast.insightnm.net/ Read More »
Here's one you don't see every day. The DFNM blog takes on Joe Monahan for shilling for legislators who are trying to kill ethics reform. DFNM nails this one dead-on the money. M-Pyre is on it too. Bravo!
So it seems that earlier today Monahan scolded Common Cause for pushing too hard on ethics reform and even went so far as to call upon the organization's donors to rethink their priorities. Monahan's source, as usual, was one of his trademark "alligators." Read More »
So it seems that earlier today Monahan scolded Common Cause for pushing too hard on ethics reform and even went so far as to call upon the organization's donors to rethink their priorities. Monahan's source, as usual, was one of his trademark "alligators." Read More »
Political blogger Joe Monahan may be the go-to darling of the local MSM, but a great post at Democracy for New Mexico puts these matters into proper perspective. Read More »
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