Thanks, Councilor Heinrich

Maggie says:
Kudos to Martin Heinrich for proposing a living wage ordinance in Albuquerque. This is one to watch closely; I expect the politics will be much more contentious here than they were in Santa Fe last year. Martin's getting attention all over the place: check out what David Sirota has to say about Martin's role in proposing an Albuquerque living wage.

And speaking of Martins, we all know how Mayor Marty Chavez will react to this: badly. Maybe watching this issue play out will finally prove to those progressive national organizations that they contributed to the wrong mayoral candidate this year. Has anyone else noticed (with disgust, if you're like me) how many national contributions Marty received compared to Eric Griego? Marty should've sent them back marked "Not interested in your values." Why didn't those orgs do their homework? It should have been obvious that a Democrat endorsed by Republicans is no progressive. On the other hand, why didn't Griego make their job easier for them by connecting the dots so he could get the contributions instead?