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PUTTING PAPER UMBRELLAS IN OUR COCKTAILS SINCE 1992 PHOTO OF HIRUM CAMP BY ERIC WILLIAMS VOLUME 29 | ISSUE 08 | FEBRUARY 20-26, 2020 | FREE Building the Cannatopia Creating our future for the cannabis and hemp industry. April 4th 11-5pm Santa Fe Community Convention Center Education and Job Fair Powered by Tickets $12 general admission alibi.com/nnmce Booths and Sponsorships available (505) 346-0660 [email protected] [2] WEEKLY ALIBI FEBRUARY 20-26, 2020 FEBRUARY 20-26, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [3] Email letters, including author’s name, mailing address and daytime phone number to [email protected]. Letters can also be mailed to P.O. Box 81, Albuquerque, N.M., 87103. Letters—including comments posted on alibi.com— may be published in any medium and edited for length and clarity; owing to alibi LETTERS the volume of correspondence, we regrettably can’t respond to every letter. VOLUME 29 | ISSUE 08 | FEBRUARY 20-26, 2020 The high esteem we regard for our elected Dr. Robert Prentice, a professor of business EDITORIAL Plame Blame MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: officials is maintained only through trust and law at the University of Texas (hardly a hotbed Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] Dear Editor, assurance they will uphold the laws of of liberalism), reviewed the findings of MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: I read August March’s gentle interview with governance. Soldiers and police officers are nonpartisan fact checkers regarding the 2016 August March (ext. 245) [email protected] FOOD EDITOR: Congressional candidate Valerie Plame [v29 i4] asked to uphold their oath of duty and to Clinton vs. Trump election.”‘Here’s the sacrifice their lives if need be to protect our Dan Pennington (Ext. 255) [email protected] with interest. problem: … whereas Clinton lies as much as ARTS AND LIT. EDITOR: The problem with Valerie’s social media country, its citizens, and its laws. the average politician, President Donald Clarke Condé (Ext. 239) [email protected] It is deeply regrettable that so many Trump’s lying is ‘off the charts.’ No prominent COPY EDITOR: gaffe wasn’t just its bizarre content but what it Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] revealed about her political acumen. Added to Republicans have such expectation of others politician in memory bests Trump for spouting while they denigrate and make a mockery of CALENDARS EDITOR: her advertising stunt of driving backwards, spectacular, egregious, easily disproved lies. … Ashli Kesali [email protected] that sacrifice. The sham trial in the Senate with divorcing a dying husband (a thoroughly Every fact checker—Kessler, Factcheck.org, STAFF WRITER: decent man, to whom Valerie owes her public no witnesses allowed to testify was such a Snopes.com, PolitiFact—finds a level of Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] mockery. It was an arrogant display of SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR: profile) or backing a $92 trillion boondoggle mendacity unequaled by any politician ever contempt for the institutions that forged this scrutinized.” Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] that would bankrupt us while consolidat[ing] CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: great nation. When the President was acquitted Big Brother (the New Green Deal), it would Speaker Pelosi’s action (“He shredded the Robin Babb, Rob Brezsny, Carolyn Carlson, Samantha and his abuse of power exonerated, it sent a seem she is not best suited for the political life. truth so I shredded his speech”) was Carrillo, Maggie Grimason, Steven Luthy, Hosho disturbing and cynical message that the particularly welcome after watching the McCreesh, Mayo Lua de Frenchie Not having held any office locally, one does powerful and corrupt are not accountable to not have to look very far to see her likely Senate’s spineless Republicans, many of whom the same standards of justice that govern the admitted publicly that the President was guilty PRODUCTION motivation in running for Congress, since she’s rest of society. ART DIRECTOR: always mentioning it. Valerie lost her job 17 of both Articles of Impeachment, vote to put Ramona Chavez (ext. 268) [email protected] Any American with an ounce of love for Trump above the rule of law. And stupidly ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: years ago because her husband told truth to their country should feel a sense of betrayal and power, and this is her delayed means for voted to destroy their own power to keep Corey Yazzie [email protected] outrage and recognize the Senate’s conduct was GRAPHIC DESIGNER: revenge. Valerie waited until we had a strident despots in check. a validation of tyranny. To those shameless Laura F. Sanchez, Xanthe Miller [email protected] and aggressive, liberal Democratic, female Republicans that have dismissed their STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: Los Lunas Eric Williams [email protected] governor before she could get up the nerve. obligations and ignored the call of duty, you Note the disingenuous praise in her interview have tread on the Constitution for political SALES for Councillor Romero-Wirth, wife of the expediency that benefits the few to the Top Cops? SALES DIRECTOR: Governor’s chief legislative lieutenant, State detriment of the many. Accountability may not Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] Dear Editor, ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: Senator Peter Wirth. In reality, Romero-Wirth’s always be easy, but it should always be expected, I have lived in this city for nearly 22 years and Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] water pipe was rammed through Santa Fe City no matter the circumstances. It accompanies John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] Council in one session, with no recourse. the privilege of serving one’s country and over that time, I’ve had a few interactions with EVENT AND MARKETING COORDINATOR Rather like the way her husband raised taxes honors those who have given their lives to APD. Madeline MacKenzie [email protected] during an extended oil boom, or the protect it. Initially, it was positive. In one incident, I ADMINISTRATION Governor’s energy deal with PNM; payoff We are at that point now where we must ask had been mugged in front of Highland High PUBLISHER: ongoing. Lujan-Grisham needs fast results if ourselves: Do we want to be a nation of fair and School about three or four years after I moved Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] she is to be considered for national VP, and if just laws, or live in a state ruled by oligarchs and here. APD was prompt, the officers were ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: that means dirty ones, then so be it. concerned and polite. Later, I had a serious Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] tyrants whose self-serving goals are to render CONTROLLER: In running for high office—not having our laws and institutions meaningless and problem with an abusive neighbor. This time, Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] held any post before—the welfare of the obsolete? it was bicycle officers, who again demonstrated ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: people of New Mexico is likely not very Democracy requires constant vigilance, that APD could treat Albuquerque denizens Madeline MacKenzie (ext. 233) [email protected] uppermost in Valerie’s heart. Why should we with respect and courtesy. SYSTEMS MANAGER: awareness and participation from its citizens. Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] believe she would be effective once elected? Let’s take back our government from these Then something happened in the WEB MONKEY: Barry Hatfield, spineless minions by exercising our right to intervening years. One would like to attribute John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] Santa Fe vote. this to a decline in the number of officers, no OWNERS: Ildiko Zold Logue, longer needing a college degree, the change in Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott Do Your Duty Albuquerque the political atmosphere or whatever, but there CIRCULATION was a distinct shift. CIRCULATION MANAGER: Dear Alibi, I Fancy Nancy In 2018 I was being stalked, threatened and Chris Silva (ext. 252) [email protected] I often wondered what I would do if CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: verbally abused by another tenant in a Darrell Sparks [email protected] confronted with a decision that would Dear Editor, rooming house I live in. APD took ages to challenge my sense of honor and duty, not just Good for you, Nancy Pelosi! arrive and while they were okay before they INFORMATION talked to the abuser, after there was a change in PRINTER: to self and family but to country. We have all The media has endlessly replayed video of The Santa Fe New Mexican seen movies in which the protagonist the Speaker of the House ripping up her their attitude toward me. I received the IN LOVING MEMORY: courageously sacrifices one’s self to make a transcript of the President’s speech following impression that I wasn’t quite believed, that Doug Albin, Martin Candelaria, Michael Henningsen, stand, even if that means going it alone and the 2020 State of the Union address. perhaps somehow I was at fault, and they Gretchen Hudson, Eric Johnson, Greg Medara, Chico never told me what was said. Later, when I was Ramirez, Mina Yamashita, Ernest Montoya against the odds. I hope I never find myself Finally, someone has graphically, publicly INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER: confronted with such a situation but I hope I objected to the President’s endless falsehoods. in the process of filing a petition for a Southwest Cyberport (232-7992) [email protected] would have the strength and conviction to do According to fact checkers, POTUS’ carefully restraining order I learned they never even NATIONAL ADVERTISING: crafted, spectacle-heavy speech contained false had a record of my call or the visit. Another VMG Advertising (888) 278-9866 what’s right.