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Eighth pitch for legislative salaries should fail

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By Milan Simonich Verified
| Santa Fe New Mexican Verified
Maybe New Mexico's legislators used to be more sympathetic when they maneuvered for a place at the public trough. Seven times lawmakers campaigned for a salary. They always lost. Voters weren't keen on amending the state constitution to pay citizen legislators who were in session only 30 or 60 days a year. Lawmakers from the hinterlands said they would soldier on after those defeats, though it was tough to buy food and pay hotel bills in Santa Fe on their modest public allowances for expenses.
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Dems try for third time to nominate legislative candidate

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By Milan Simonich Verified
| Santa Fe New Mexican Verified
Many Democrats say first-term Republican state Rep. Nicole Chavez can be ousted in November. They might be guilty of overconfidence. Without a doubt they have underachieved. Democrats twice failed at a basic task: They did not field a candidate for what they say is a race that should be won. First, their unopposed candidate in the June primary withdrew from the general election. So did the winner of the ensuing competition to fill the vacancy.
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'Jawbone' was a brassy No. 2 in New Mexico

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By Milan Simonich Verified
| Santa Fe New Mexican Verified
Nicknames either work or they flop. Failures far outnumber the ones that click. The worst nickname in New Mexico’s rich history belonged to “Ponderous” Joe Bauman. An imposing first baseman for the Class C Roswell Rockets, Bauman swatted 72 home runs in 1954. That was the single-season record in professional baseball and it stood until 2001. “Ponderous” Joe didn’t fit the prodigious batsman who made national headlines in the backwaters of the Longhorn League.
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