Santa Fe New Mexican, March 4, 2014

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Lobos rise to No. 21 in national rankings, tied for first in Mountain West Sports, B-1

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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Ukraine says Russia issued threat

Toe-biter nailed for 5½ years

Masked robber on the run

Tensions high as alleged deadline for Ukraine to surrender passes; Russia denies it made ultimatum. PAge A-3

Former shoe salesman gets maximum sentence for attacks on ex-girlfriend. LOCAL neWs, A-7

Police seek suspect who held up a gas station while wearing a luchador mask. LOCAL neWs, A-7

Supreme Court to decide if it will take on N.M. case

Polls open for city election

Couple maintain they did not violate law when they refused to photograph same-sex commitment ceremony By Robert Barnes

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Arizona recently showed the rest of the nation how difficult it can be to balance the religious rights of some with the guarantees all have to be treated equally and protected from discrimination. The Supreme Court will decide this month whether that is an effort it is ready to undertake. The case awaiting the justices’ action is one that is inevitably cited when legislators say new laws are needed to protect those who say their religious beliefs would be offended by having to “endorse” same-sex marriage. It involves a New Mexico couple, Elaine and Jonathan Huguenin, whose company, Elane Photography, refused to be the official photographer for the 2007 commitment ceremony of a gay couple, Vanessa Willock and Misti Collinsworth. The Huguenins, asking the Supreme Court to reverse a lower-court decision, say they would “gladly serve gays and lesbians” — taking portraits, for instance — but do not want to photograph marriage or commitment ceremonies. That would “require them to create expression conveying messages that conflict with their religious beliefs.” The state human rights commission found that the Huguenins violated the state’s public accommodations law, the New Mexico Human Rights Act, and the New Mexico Supreme Court unanimously upheld the decision. “When Elane Photography refused to photograph a samesex commitment ceremony, it violated the NMHRA in the same way as if it had refused to photograph a wedding

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Election Judge Elaine Heltman checks the voting materials for her polling station at the Montezuma Lodge, 431 Paseo de Peralta, on Monday. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Voters get say on next mayor, new city councilors, charter amendments

District 2 council candidate Mary Bonney bashed opponents Joseph Maestas and Rad Acton in a mailer that was sent out to voters over the weekend.

Events to honor once-blacklisted New Mexico film

By Daniel J. Chacón

The New Mexican

A The mailer included a list of virtues women bring to elected office, punctuated by a quote attributed to ‘Margret’ (sic) Thatcher: ‘If you want something said ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.’

SFCC will screen ‘Salt of the Earth’ to commemorate 60th anniversary By Russell Contreras The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — A 1954 movie about a real-life miners’ strike that was blacklisted during the Red Scare is being celebrated in New Mexico as the 60th anniversary of the film approaches. Salt of the Earth was blacklisted in the U.S. during Cold War retribution against communist filmmakers and gained an underground following more than a decade later when it was finally shown. The story was told through the eyes of a female character named Esperanza as Mexican American miners barred by federal law from striking against a zinc company were replaced on the picket lines by their wives.

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Obituaries Jean Trusty Daniel, 97, Santa Fe, Feb. 24

Laissez les bons temps rouler with the Chiles Dixie Jazz Band, 4-6 p.m., the Hillstompers Brass Band, 6:30 p.m., and juke-joint honky-tonk and biker-bar-rock band Broomdust Caravan, 8 p.m. No cover before 8 p.m., $5 cover after, 319 S. Guadalupe St., 982-2565. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

The New Mexican

A couple of privately financed City Council candidates in District 2 spent the final days before Santa Fe’s municipal election — and portions of their modest campaign war chests — battering opponents with attack ads, including one that claims women elected to office “are more honorable and ethical” than men. Meanwhile, a final pre-election round of required campaign finance reports filed with the City Clerk’s Office reflected an additional

$7,745 in spending by the independent expenditure nonprofit Working America in support of mayoral candidate Javier Gonzales. The money was spent to bring paid canvassers from Albuquerque to Santa Fe, including the cost of rental vans and gasoline. Voters in the southeast-side District 2 received mailers over the weekend with the headline “Bad boys” splashed in red across the top. These were sent out by council candidate Mary Bonney, the only woman in a race that also includes Joseph Maestas, Rad Acton, Joe Arellano and Jeff Green.

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On OUR WeBsITe u To watch videos of candidate interviews and read previously published stories on contested races and proposed city charter amendments, as well as other city election coverage, including a list of polling places and descriptions of the charter amendments, visit www.santafenewmexican.com/ elections/city_hall_2014.

Karzai ‘extremely angry’ with U.S. over war By Kevin Sieff

The Washington Post

Today Partly sunny. High 59, low 33. PAge B-5

Calendar A-2

By Patrick Malone

PAge A-9

Fat Tuesday celebration at Cowgirl BBQ

Index

Attack ads, spending updates come out as races wind down

fter months of local election campaigns, news coverage and candidate forums, Santa Fe voters will get their say Tuesday as to who will serve as the city’s mayor for the next four years. The municipal ballot also includes contested races in three of the city’s four City Council districts and nine proposed charter amendments, including whether the part-time mayor’s position should become a full-time position with broad new powers starting in March 2018. The City Clerk’s Office will staff 33 polling places across the city from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The city Transportation Department is offering free rides on Santa Fe Trails buses and the Santa Fe Ride service to help get voters to the polls.

Classifieds B-6

Comics B-12

KABUL, Afghanistan — Hamid Karzai was in the midst of negotiating a security agreement with the United States when he met a 4-year-old girl who had lost half her face in an American airstrike. Five months later, the Afghan president’s eyes welled with tears as he described visit-

Lotteries A-2

Opinions A-10

Police notes A-9

Editor: Ray Rivera, 986-3033, rrivera@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Kristina Dunham, kdunham@sfnewmexican.com

ing the disfigured little girl at a hospital. He took long pauses between words. Sitting behind his desk Saturday night, the man who has projected a defiant image toward the West suddenly looked frail. “That day, I wished she were dead, so she could be buried with her parents and brothers and sisters” — 14 of whom had been killed in the attack — he said. In an unusually emotional interview, the

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Time Out B-11

Local Business C-1

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InsIde u Afghan forces toll tops 13,000. PAge A-6

departing Afghan president sought to explain why he has been such a harsh critic of the 12-year-old U.S. war effort here. He said he’s deeply troubled by all the casualties he has

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