Susana Martinez

New Mexico Governor OK After Hair-Raising Plane Failure

AP | Posted 05.24.2012

SANTA FE, N.M. — A spokesman for New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez says she and her husband were not injured when a small private airplane carryin...

Janell Ross

High-Tech NM Electronic Voter Registration Drive vs. Voter ID Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.03.2012

As both the Republican and Democratic parties clamor to claim a larger share of the Latino electorate this year, electronic voter registration has eme...

New Mexico Governor's Grandfather Was A U.S. Citizen

AP | BARRY MASSEY | Posted 04.28.2012

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Ever since taking office last year as the nation's first Hispanic female governor, New Mexico's Susana Martinez found her family tre...

Jon Ward

Mitt Romney's Vice Presidential Pick: Signs Point To Risk Avoidance

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 04.19.2012

WASHINGTON -- If Haley Barbour advised Mitt Romney about whom to pick for his running mate, the former Mississippi governor might repeat something he ...

Latino VP Might Not Be Key To Hispanic Voters For Romney

The Huffington Post | Elise Foley | Posted 04.19.2012

Picking a Latino running mate would not help Mitt Romney much with Hispanic voters, according to a poll released on Thursday. That could throw a k...

You May Say I'm A DREAMer

Daniel Koas | Posted 06.03.2012

Daniel Koas

The only DREAM Act worth passing is the one that would actually give students the chance to dream.

PHOTO: Meet The Republicans Who Could Emerge Vice Presidential Candidate

Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 03.15.2012

There are still more than five months to go until the GOP formally nominates a candidate at the Republican National Convention. Although Mitt Romney h...

Matt Sledge

Super PAC Sugar Daddies Spread Campaign Contributions Around At State Level, Too

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.13.2012

Don't cry for the sugar daddies. Rick Santorum may be down and Rick Perry may be out, but the billionaires and millionaires who bet big on them have p...

GOP VP Possibilities: How About a Woman From Out West?

Robert Guttman | Posted 04.30.2012

Robert Guttman

With a tough image, Hispanic background and Palin endorsement, this Republican gem will help make the party shine after the primary dust settles. Named "Woman of the Year" and "Prosecutor of the Year," she portrays the image of a tough and competent yet cheerful leader.

Michelangelo Signorile

New Mexico Governor's Ex-Hairdresser On His Decision To Quit

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 02.29.2012

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez will never get the secret formula for her hair color, which was created just for her. So says Antonio Darden of...

Sam Stein

Governor Susana Martinez Unmoved On Same-Sex Marriage Despite Hairstylist Protest

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.27.2012

WASHINGTON -- Despite the public protests of a local hairstylist, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez said on Monday that she would continue to oppose...

Sam Stein

Susana Martinez Hairstylist Troubles Prompted By Chris Christie Gay Marriage Veto

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.24.2012

WASHINGTON -- The hairstylist who refused to cut New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez's hair out of anger toward her opposition to same-sex marriage says t...

Sam Stein

New Mexico Governor's Hair Crisis Averted

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.23.2012

WASHINGTON -- Quelling growing national concern over the status of her hair, Gov. Susana Martinez's office said on Wednesday that other hairstylists h...

Carlos Harrison

Who Might Be The First Latino President Of The U.S?

HuffingtonPost.com | Carlos Harrison | Posted 02.20.2012

With all the attention being placed on the Latino vote, possible Hispanic vice-president candidates, and the support of influential Latino leaders in ...

New Mexico Immigrant License Access Data Points To Fraud

AP | By BARRY MASSEY | Posted 03.26.2012

SANTA FE, N.M. -- An Associated Press investigation has found that addresses of dozens of the same businesses and homes across New Mexico were used ov...

'Billy The Kid' PBS Film Explores Hispanic Link

AP | By RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 12.12.2011

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- His mythical exploits and jail escapes made this son of Irish immigrants one of the nation's most famous Old West outlaws. Yet fe...

Hispanic Stars Of The GOP

AP | By JERI CLAUSING | Posted 12.17.2011

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are popular, relative political newcomer...

New Evidence Revealed On New Mexico Governor's Immigrant Past

AP | Barry Massey And Russell Contreras | Posted 11.14.2011

By BARRY MASSEY AND RUSSELL CONTRERAS, ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE, N.M. -- New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has dug into her family's ancestry and un...

New Mexico's Susana Martinez Only State To Show At U.S.-Mexico Governors Conference

AP | By ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 11.29.2011

ENSENADA, Mexico -- New Mexico was again the only U.S. state to send its chief executive to an annual conference of governors from the Mexican and U.S...

GOP Gov Behind Anti-Immigrant Legislation Admits Grandparents Were Undocumented

Posted 11.08.2011

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, who has drawn national attention and criticism from im...

New Mexico Lawmakers Take Governor To Court Over Harsh Immigration Law

AP | By BARRY MASSEY | Posted 10.24.2011

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Four state legislators and a Silver City woman asked a judge Wednesday to stop Gov. Susana Martinez's administration from tryin...

Governor's Great Grandparents Were Illegal Immigrants

Koat.com | Posted 10.12.2011

SANTA FE, N.M. -- New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and the protestors against her fight to ban driver's licenses for illegal immigrants have more in co...

Republicans Considering Hispanics For VP Role In 2012

U.S. News & World Report | Posted 10.12.2011

Hispanics and women top the list of most buzzed about 2012 Republican vice presidential candidates as the party seeks to build on its shrinking base o...

Saki Knafo

For Latino Voters, A Choice Between Disappointment And Menace

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 10.10.2011

Kevin Solis, a third-generation Mexican-American from Los Angeles, describes himself as a "poster child for the Democratic Party." One of his uncles w...

Hispanic Republican Group Meeting in New Mexico

AP | JERI CLAUSING | Posted 10.10.2011

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A conservative Republican group formed last year to woo more Hispanics to the GOP will hold its second conference in Albuque...