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Alan Webber formally declares bid to unseat Gov. Susana Martinez, becoming the fourth Democratic candidate — but despite his lack of name recognition, the Martinez camp has taken notice of the Santa Fe businessman. PAge A-5
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Dave Gold leads the Santa Fe Hiking Meetup Group on a hike along the Chamisa Trail on Wednesday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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ave Gold’s conical straw hat makes him look like he’s headed out to work in a rice paddy. But the airy topper is just a little eccentricity, one he adopts for leading Santa Feans — and sometimes visitors from around the world — deep into the woods, often to isolated spots with magnificent 360-degree views of the surrounding mountains. Gold is the “organizer” of the Santa Fe Hiking Meetup Group and leads at least two Meetups a week. On Wednesday, he took a group of 14 on a moderate hike of three-plus hours up a branch of the Chamisa Trail
off Hyde Park Road to the saddle and then west along a colorful ridge. Gold described it as more “mellow” than the steep, off-trail hike the previous Sunday, which one participant called “epic.” Moderate, in Gold’s book, means you can comfortably go up and down Atalaya Mountain in two and a half hours. “Hike at your own pace,” Gold commanded. And, he warned, if that’s fast, be prepared to sustain it. Legally, he said, everyone is on their own, but, “If a black bear jumps out of the bush, I’m not saying we’re not going to help you.” Last week’s moderate hike was somewhat easier than the Goat-Head hike he leads on alternate Wednesday
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Mayoral candidate Roman “Tiger” Abeyta said an email sent to the news media and others Monday showing his campaign manager in his underwear purportedly soliciting sex in a Craigslist ad is an unseemly attempt to sabotage his bid for mayor. Ray Sandoval, Abeyta’s campaign manager, acknowledged that it’s him in the photograph, but he denied ever placing such an ad. The email came to his attention after it was sent to the board of the Kiwanis Club. The club puts on the
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Alloy Orchestra Instrumental trio performs live accompaniment for the 1927 silent film Metropolis, 7 p.m., the Lensic, $10-$20, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.
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Did lobbyists for big corporate interests kill bills in the Legislature this year pertaining to oil and gas production and genetically modified foods? That can’t be proven, according to a study released Monday by Common Cause New Mexico. However, the study verifies that lawmakers who voted the way the industries wanted tended to get a lot more campaign contributions than the legislators who voted the other way. “We want to clarify that the correlations found here between lobbyist spending, campaign contributions and voting behavior do not imply that legislators are trading votes for campaign donations or fancy dinners,” said Viki Harrison, executive director of Common Cause New Mexico. But Harrison added, “The correlation between contributions and voting behavior alone can erode trust in government
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annual burning of Zozobra, an event Sandoval organized with much fanfare this year. The email “ties in Zozobra and Roman’s campaign. This is clearly political,” Sandoval said in an interview at Abeyta’s headquarters Monday night. Sandoval said he immediately reported the ad to Craigslist, which removed it, and then he filed a police report to try to track the sender. “I’ve seen them attacking the candidate. But now you’re going to start attacking the campaign manager? This is an absolute new low,” he said. Several of Abeyta’s opponents in the mayoral race denied any involvement in the ad and email. But the episode is the latest episode in a contest that candidates say is becoming increasingly contentious.
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mornings. It allowed for more or less continuous conversation among the hiking enthusiasts. Joe Liftik, a retired psychologist who now calls himself “just a bum,” gave his recipe for cooking diver scallops, using the frozen variety from Trader Joe’s. Cathe Physioc, an illustrator and former ocean kayaker, provided some tips on international home exchanges and said she knows the difference between white and black truffles. Many of these regular hikers have worshipped at the “Church of Dave” since he took over the Santa Fe Hiking Meetup Group soon after it was organized in 2007.
The Senate may finally move to confirm Hanna Skandera, the governor’s designee as New Mexico’s top education official, in the upcoming legislative session in January — nearly three years after she was appointed to the post. Republican Gov. Susana Martinez appointed Skandera as education secretary in late 2010. The Senate Rules Committee, which confirms the governor’s Hanna cabinet secretaries, did Skandera not give Skandera a hearing in either 2011 or 2012. Since then, Skandera, who worked for two years under Florida’s Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, has carried the title of education secretary-designate. Under her tenure, New Mexico has been one of several states to receive a waiver to certain provisions to the federal No Child Left Behind mandates, including the right to create its own teacherevaluation system, thus giving New Mexico more flexibility when it comes to using federal education funds. But Skandera also has come under fire from critics for a number of her actions. The Senate Rules Committee will vote whether to recommend confirmation for Skandera during the next legislative session, slated to begin Jan. 21, 2014, the com-
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