Hey Du'ers, great news!

[Celeborn Skywalker]

My little town here in Southwest New Mexico just passed a resolution supporting the creation of a Department of Peace in

Washington! I'm excited because, although this town went for Kerry, we tend to be a fairly conservative ranching mining

community with many families having relatives in the military. Only 1 out of 7 town councilors voted against it and

he was too afraid to state his reason.

The tide is turning folks, I can feel it!

[RagingInMiami]

1. What town

Silver City? Deming? Lordsburg?

I used to live in that area.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

4. Silver City (nt)

[RagingInMiami]

5. Better than Lordsburg and Deming

I used to live in Deming.

[swag]

8. Did you ever hear that public radio hostess say,

"Good Morneen from Demeen."?

[Celeborn Skywalker]

14. Yeah, I used to live in Lordsburg

Friendly people, but sooooo boring.

[RagingInMiami]

15. Lordsburg was more boring than Deming

But not by much. I was a reporter for the Las Cruces Sun-News covering Deming and Columbus, so from a news standpoint, it wasn't so bad because there were plenty of stories because of the border.

But if I wanted to have fun, I would have to drive to Las Cruces or El Paso.

[swag]

7. Silver's a nice town.

I love that wine bar that serves Cheetoes.

And the bookstore.

And the Tour of the Gila is fun.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. That's Great To Hear!

It's the little things that matter and this is yet another encouraging sign that change is wanted by the masses.

I'm glad to hear your excited, and hopefully more good news will come!

[NMDemDist2]

3. I"m moving to SE New Mexico with the same demographic

there's some good folks in NM

:bounce:

[Swamp Rat]

6. Woohoo!

:woohoo:

New Mexico, my other home. :)

[Nevernose]

9. Another reason NM is on my Top Ten Places to Move To list

Congratulations!

[Warpy]

10. Holy shit! In RANCH COUNTRY?

We up in the northern part of the state tend to think the southern part is divided between conservative Texan ranchers and conservative Texan retirees. That a town in that part of the state has done something downright progressive is welcome news, indeed.

Now if you guys can only manage to get rid of those two wastes of protoplasm and horrible embarrassments to all New Mexicans, Pearce and Domenici, maybe the overall perception will finally change.

Yeah, I know about Heartless Heather Wilson. We're working on it, and without those ES&S machines, my guess is that she's already interviewing at K Street lobbying firms.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

12. Well, we're not as bad as some areas of Eastern NM

but we do have a fairly large amount of conservatives. What makes Silver more liberal is the very active art community and the Hispanic population.

We do need to get rid of Pearce and Dominici, that's for sure.

[AspenRose]

13. My understanding is Domenici's not running again

So your wish will come true

...and hopefully Patricia Madrid will kick Heather Wilson's a**.

[Lifelong Protester]

11. I am always glad

to find out that there are some sane places out there!! Makes me feel that "we" are not alone!!

[Kenergy]

16. That's good news! Thanks for posting that Jaredh n/t