Domenici: 'We've changed New Mexico'

Pete: You have done one hell of a job for New Mexico Thanks

New Mexico has a well-deserved reputation for corrupt government and institutions.

Dominici appears to have done nothing to help clean up New Mexico government and administrations.

Let's hope we get our $22,036.00 back from Sandia Laboratories Federal Credit Union.

http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/ncuaoig/nc...

And hopefully send its CEO Christopher Jillson to prison.

Adios -- and good riddance.

I don't think you mentioned his fight for mental health coverage, an unpopular stand for a Republican, but very humane and smart.

Also, I always found his office responsive to constituent issues.

As for UC-LANL, as long as the lab managers and Congress believe science should be run as a business and not as science, it will be a failure for the country, state, and world. Dominici should have pushed for the restoration of the science lab, including basic sciences such as analytical anthropology. http://13C4.wordpress.com

billp37 wrote:

New Mexico has a well-deserved reputation for corrupt government and institutions.
Dominici appears to have done nothing to help clean up New Mexico government and administrations.
Let's hope we get our $22,036.00 back from Sandia Laboratories Federal Credit Union.
http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/ncuaoig/nc...
And hopefully send its CEO Christopher Jillson to prison.

Even an inquiry into the status of an ongoing corruption case resulted in a call to the "ethics committee". Pete has done a great job!!! The Demorats were the ones having "issues" with corruption...remember manny, vigil and montoya?

I remember, back in the 70s when the people of New Mexico were being told that WIPP was going to be used to store LOW level nuclear waste. Sure is interesting how, once WIPP got built, the mission changed!

pete you have done one hell of a job, take the money and run.

Senator Domenici's legacy also is his continuation of the strategies of New Mexican politicians from Bronson Cutting in the 1930s to Dennis Chavez and Clinton Anderson in the 1950s and 1960s. All of them knew that the state could not support itself by free-market economics. With the exception of tourism and energy (the latter of which did not become prominent until after World War II), the state had little agriculture or industry to anchor prosperity. Thus state leaders began cultivating both the social service programs of the New Deal and military spending of WWII and the Cold War. In so doing, Domenici became adept at balancing the "red-blue" tensions in DC, ensuring that his state remained viable as the underlying reasons for NM's economic challenges never changed (aridity, distance, isolation, low-wage labor, educational advancement, etc.) He is truly a symbol of the complexities of 20th-21st century NM history, and deserves a biography that outlines the lessons that he learned.

he turned New Mexico into a nuclear weapons state, with forever contaminated lands, with no informed consent, no vote, no democratic process. he has marginalized all voices other than his. he has destroyed ecosystems, water sources, for generations to come.
it shouldn't be 'you have done onehellof a job", as one reader states; it more appropriately should be 'your work is sending you to hell'.

In light of Mayor Chavez's comment that the good Senator should be remembered for his legal in water issues, I suspect that a year from now much of New Mexico will be humming a new tune - "You Don't Miss Your Water Til Your Well Runs Dry." While you all can fight and bicker over weapons and politics, lots of very high paying jobs in New Mexico are about to "dry up" with the departure of Saint Pete, and there will be few new ones to replace them.

New Mexico has been a nuclear weapons state since WWII!! Ask the Japanese!

Senator Domenici has represented the State very well in DC.
We'll feel the pinch with Bingaman, and Udall in the Senate. And newbies in the House.

The bacon won't be nearly as fat, we can expect other states to raid our projects and programs.

Good riddance!! Pete has become thoroughly corrupt and we will all be better off without him.

He had become "King of the Earmarks" in directing money at the Labs. By heaping money on LANL failues; such as the plutonium facility, he has supported bad management and prevented any effective oversight.

His career is an argument for term limits. His corruption and arrogance serve as a caution to us all.

Senator Domenici was an outstanding senator working hard for New Mexicans, to bad he was sucked into the Bush/Cheney vortex the last eight-years.

Chris Mechels wrote:

Good riddance!! Pete has become thoroughly corrupt and we will all be better off without him.
He had become "King of the Earmarks" in directing money at the Labs. By heaping money on LANL failues; such as the plutonium facility, he has supported bad management and prevented any effective oversight.
His career is an argument for term limits. His corruption and arrogance serve as a caution to us all.

So does ignorance such as yours!

Compare Pete's many accomplishments to those of the other Senator, the one who has been invisible for decades. Pete got us everything.