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lunatica

(53,410 posts)
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 07:06 PM Jun 2019

Valerie Plame, Democrat, has announced she's running for Congress

in New Mexico. It’s an open seat in the House. I saw it yesterday on MSNBC. She wants to make New Mexico the state for renewable energy. We have a lot of sunlight and a lot of wind in New Mexico, and plenty of wide open desert. That got my attention since I happen to think climate change is our most important issue.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442888-valerie-plame-to-run-for-congress-in-new-mexico

Right now my Congressman is Ben Luján but he’s running for the Senate in the next election, which means she’ll be my Congresswoman!

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Valerie Plame, Democrat, has announced she's running for Congress (Original Post) lunatica Jun 2019 OP
Yes! mcar Jun 2019 #1
Yes! solara Jun 2019 #2
Yes, we will take her to our side Miigwech Jun 2019 #3
She will be great. themaguffin Jun 2019 #4
Saw her on TV yesterday Sucha NastyWoman Jun 2019 #5
I had the same impression when I saw her. BigmanPigman Jun 2019 #9
Sounds good! Wounded Bear Jun 2019 #6
She gets the Constitution oath too! lunatica Jun 2019 #7
Sorry We Had To Wait This Long But Booyah! (n/t) corbettkroehler Jun 2019 #8
I thought she announced it weeks ago. GoCubsGo Jun 2019 #10
She did, and it was official DFW Jun 2019 #35
Mine, too! I am PUMPED about it! n/t TygrBright Jun 2019 #11
I don't think anyone else has more name recognition lunatica Jun 2019 #12
Ah, excellent. gristy Jun 2019 #13
Good!!! Karma is a bitch.... mitch96 Jun 2019 #14
I hope she does it by being extraordinarily successful! lunatica Jun 2019 #15
Yes, Cheney told Scooter Libby to out her identity lunatica Jun 2019 #16
The person who outed her identity was Richard Armitage. hughee99 Jun 2019 #19
Looking forward to THAT. 👍 lostnfound Jun 2019 #17
Yep a True American Hero... busterbrown Jun 2019 #18
Ex husband. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2019 #21
The split is fairly recent DFW Jun 2019 #36
My parents say they saw her Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #37
I never ask her about that kind of thing. DFW Jun 2019 #39
They've been divorced about two years. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2019 #43
Yes, she announced this several weeks ago. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2019 #20
How much support does Plame have outside Santa Fe? comradebillyboy Jun 2019 #28
I honestly have no idea. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2019 #30
The Santa Fe New Mexican probably has the best political coverage comradebillyboy Jun 2019 #31
Thank you for the link. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2019 #34
This'll be a wide open Primary... brooklynite Jun 2019 #22
Good luck to her. I'll probably donate to her even though I live in California SpankMe Jun 2019 #23
Yes bpositive Jun 2019 #24
Aw-right! She'll be my rep! BadgerMom Jun 2019 #25
I'll give money to that campaign JustAnotherGen Jun 2019 #26
YES! Liberal In Texas Jun 2019 #27
I agree, she's brilliant and served her country well. saidsimplesimon Jun 2019 #32
She will be fantastic Vegas Roller Jun 2019 #29
She will make Congress much better duforsure Jun 2019 #33
I contributed to her campaign already. DFW Jun 2019 #38
This is an endorsement I can "believe". saidsimplesimon Jun 2019 #40
That was a long time brewing DFW Jun 2019 #41
Mine is not to ask the reason why. saidsimplesimon Jun 2019 #42
I have solar panels on my house but ........big corps are doing the wind farms & solar farms here womanofthehills Jun 2019 #44
I agree with you lunatica Jun 2019 #45

solara

(3,832 posts)
2. Yes!
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 07:29 PM
Jun 2019

She will be great and New Mexico is getting serious about renewable energy, her timing is perfect

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,725 posts)
5. Saw her on TV yesterday
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 07:37 PM
Jun 2019

She was quite impressive, full of confidence. Northern New Mexico will be lucky to have her .

Wounded Bear

(58,437 posts)
6. Sounds good!
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 07:42 PM
Jun 2019

You know she loves the country...and hates Repubs.

Seriously, we could use an intelligent woman like her working for us.

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
10. I thought she announced it weeks ago.
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 07:53 PM
Jun 2019

She was on Stephanie Miller's show last month discussing it. I guess maybe it wasn't "official" then? Whatever. I'm glad she is going for it!

gristy

(10,667 posts)
13. Ah, excellent.
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 08:03 PM
Jun 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame

Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (née Plame, August 13, 1963), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is a writer, spy novelist, and former operations officer who worked at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as covert officer of the CIA was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of the Washington Post.

In the aftermath of the scandal, Richard Armitage in the U.S. Department of State was identified as one source of the information, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of lying to investigators. After a failed appeal, President George W. Bush commuted Libby's sentence and in 2018, President Donald Trump pardoned him. No one was formally charged with leaking the information.

In collaboration with a ghostwriter, Plame wrote a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA. She has subsequently written and published at least two spy novels. A 2010 biographical feature film, Fair Game, was produced based on memoirs by her and her husband.

In May 2019, Plame announced her intention to run for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat for New Mexico's 3rd congressional district.[1]

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
16. Yes, Cheney told Scooter Libby to out her identity
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 08:27 PM
Jun 2019

They were determined to go to war and made things up. They said Iraq was buying yellow cake from Niger. Valero Plame’s husband, Joe Wilson, who had been Ambassador there went and found out it wasn’t true. He published the story That it wasn’t true and that pissed Cheney off. Cheney then outed Wilson’s wife. She was working in secret to keep track of nuclear weapons Russia was selling in the Middle East after the US/USSR made a pact to cut back on Nuclear Weapons.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
19. The person who outed her identity was Richard Armitage.
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 09:04 PM
Jun 2019

I haven’t seen anyone, right or left, even claim that Cheney put him up to it. It seems the two didn’t get along.

lostnfound

(16,138 posts)
17. Looking forward to THAT. 👍
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 08:52 PM
Jun 2019

She has knowledge and experience that would be beneficial to the congress and the country.

Turin_C3PO

(13,649 posts)
37. My parents say they saw her
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 06:32 PM
Jun 2019

down here in Silver City, New Mexico at a Western New Mexico University function accompanying the president of WNMU. Just a little gossip for ya lol. I don’t know if they are mistaken or not.

DFW

(54,050 posts)
39. I never ask her about that kind of thing.
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 06:38 PM
Jun 2019

My wife would have me in chains if she even knew I had made a casual inquiry! Besides, considering her former profession, Valerie would probably never tell me even if I did ask!

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
43. They've been divorced about two years.
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 07:45 PM
Jun 2019

And you're right, neither one made a big splash of it.

The local paper doesn't print divorce notices, and they simply weren't at all public about their split. I've lived in cities where divorces were published in the local paper, and that was always entertaining reading.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
20. Yes, she announced this several weeks ago.
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 09:05 PM
Jun 2019

I live in that district, and as much as I like Ms. Plame, there is, in my opinion, an even better but not as well known candidate for that seat. It's Teresa Leger Fernandez, who has lived her entire life in Northern New Mexico. She's an attorney who focusses on social justice issues. Unfortunately, she's almost invisible at this point.

I am not a fan of Ben Ray Lujan. I believe the only other person who has declared for that Senate seat is Maggie Toulouse Oliver, who has her own flaws, but I'll vote for her in the primary if no one I like better shows up.

comradebillyboy

(10,119 posts)
28. How much support does Plame have outside Santa Fe?
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 11:26 PM
Jun 2019

Has she any supporters in the Hispanic community? It's a big heavily Hispanic district.

I'm ok with Ben Ray but I do like Maggie a lot. But our primary is still a year away. A lot can happen.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
30. I honestly have no idea.
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 11:41 PM
Jun 2019

And it's nearly a year too soon to have any real clue. The primary won't be until June of next year.

The only reason I'm aware of the various candidates is because I both pay careful attention to these things and I subscribe to the Santa Fe New Mexican, the local newspaper. One of my friends here mocks me for getting it, but then I'm very aware of local things he hasn't a clue about.

comradebillyboy

(10,119 posts)
31. The Santa Fe New Mexican probably has the best political coverage
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 09:45 AM
Jun 2019

of any paper in the state. Otherwise the Albuquerque outlets dominate the media and are very skimpy about covering the rest of the state. Also check out Joe Monahan's blog for breaking political stories.

http://joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com/

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
34. Thank you for the link.
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 01:42 PM
Jun 2019

I wasn't familiar with that blog.

I like the New Mexican. Heck, if the only thing I got from the paper was the crossword puzzle and the funnies I'd consider it worthwhile. One of the things I like best is how on Tuesdays there's always an article about some local restaurant or distillery or some such. Yesterday's was about a local grocery store that stocks things from Central and South America, and how it's planning on building a much larger store on Airport Road, pretty near where I live. The kind of thing that makes this a real community.

brooklynite

(93,844 posts)
22. This'll be a wide open Primary...
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 09:09 PM
Jun 2019

Rob Apodaca (D) - Political Consultant & Ex-USDA Official
Dineh Benally (D) - Navajo Tribe Agricultural Officer & Hemp Legalization Activist
Gavin Kaiser (D) - Hallucinogenic Mushroom Legalization Advocate
Teresa Leger (D) - Attorney & Ex-Clinton White House Fellow
Jaymeson Pegue (D) - Attorney
Valerie Plame (D) - Ex-CIA Officer & Author
Joseph Sanchez (D) - State Rep., Rancher & Engineer
Marco Serna (D) - Sante Fe County District Attorney
Victor Snover (D) - Aztec Mayor, Retired Army NCO & Army JROTC Teacher

They'll need to sort this out before I consider getting involved.

SpankMe

(2,937 posts)
23. Good luck to her. I'll probably donate to her even though I live in California
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 09:36 PM
Jun 2019

I'm originally from NM, and I may end up there in retirement. It seems that renewable/future energy is a good fit for NM as a prime focus.

You have finance in NY, oil in TX, entertainment/agriculture/technology in CA, gambling in NV...many states have their themes and principle characteristic industries. Renewable energy sounds like something that both NM and AZ should gang up on and dominate.

JustAnotherGen

(31,681 posts)
26. I'll give money to that campaign
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 10:01 PM
Jun 2019

She will be fantastic. Hope she wins and gets on intelligence/foreign relations committees. She has grit!

duforsure

(11,882 posts)
33. She will make Congress much better
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 01:14 PM
Jun 2019

If NM will vote her into office, and need other smart women like her in Congress and the White House,where smart is totally. Absent at the moment. I'd give her my vote in a heartbeat if I lived there.

DFW

(54,050 posts)
38. I contributed to her campaign already.
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 06:35 PM
Jun 2019

I have known Valerie for well over ten years, and she is articulate, VERY smart, and completely sincere about wanting to serve the country again. I'm sure her idealism, already battered by what she went through from the Cheney White House, will suffer a few new blows. I am also confident that she is strong enough to handle the new ones. I was in touch with her before she had even made the final decision to run, and encouraged her to go for it (I'm presumably not alone there). She will make NM proud!

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
40. This is an endorsement I can "believe".
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 06:56 PM
Jun 2019

I'm saddened that recent news is more about her marriage than her patriotism.

DFW

(54,050 posts)
41. That was a long time brewing
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 07:28 PM
Jun 2019

They had been under a constant strain ever since the outing. They tried to make it work, but things just weren't the same since. At some point you have to admit it and move on, and so they did.

womanofthehills

(8,579 posts)
44. I have solar panels on my house but ........big corps are doing the wind farms & solar farms here
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 09:15 PM
Jun 2019

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and instead of keeping the solar energy for NM, they are shipping most of it out of state. The big problem is we don't have the infrastructure to ship so much solar out of state and there are huge land fights - because no one wants 150 ft. towers on their land. I know because I have small towers (90 ft) going through my land from a windmill farm in NM to bring solar to Arizona. So, my land is devalued and my view is fucked for a company to make money sending energy out of state. The infrastructure fights between landowners and corporations has been going on bigly over here. We have a community organization _ Resistiendo _ to fight all this stuff. We just got another big wind farm company out of our town, but the next town over is now fighting them.

What we want is solar for NM - not huge companies making huge bucks and ruining the landscape and views to make money.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
45. I agree with you
Thu Jun 20, 2019, 03:14 AM
Jun 2019

It makes zero sense to be doing the solar farms but not benefitting from them and another state gets that benefit. If they’re here then the first to benefit should be us. Then do it for others. Renewable energy is needed everywhere, not just over there, wherever there is.

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