Adam Kokesh 'runs' for Congress; is an antiwar activist seeking to return Ben Lujan to the House?

911FamiliesForAmerica ^ | March 3, 2010 | Tim Sumner

[Sergeant Tim]

Kokesh has friends in high places and his dad has bucks...

[Tijeras_Slim]

I’m just saying that district is a real uphill climb for any republican even without this traitor stirring the pot.

We’ll see. After inflicting Bill Richardson on the world, who knows what northern NM is capable of?

[OCCASparky]

Oh, snap! I haven’t lived there for a few years, but I remember the story behind that...

[ETL]

Kokesh has friends in high places and his dad has bucks...

So typical of these spoiled brat commies.

[SoCalPol]

Great post Tim.

I was just posting on another thread about this Marxist, Adam Kokesh and one of his major supporters, Ron Paul.

Some people need to get a clue.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Santa Fe City has 72,000 as of 2008. The County has 144,000 (but that’s a large area, and a lot of it is spillover growth from ABQ).

[Tijeras_Slim]

Thanks, especially considering the county extends down to Edgewood area.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yup. I always thought that is weird when you head east on I-40 out of ABQ that you pass through that short stretch of Santa Fe County.

[Recon Dad]

When I was there it was under 40,000 and they were not looking to grow.

[fieldmarshaldj]

It was 40k back in 1970. The county itself has added 40k just since 1990.

[Recon Dad]

I attended the College of Santa Fe in 1965 and 1966. I was back in Santa Fe about 8 years ago and did notice growth out by the college and noticed the college had grown some.

[fieldmarshaldj]

My grandparents lived there during the ‘60s, but alas, sold their house around ‘71 before the property values skyrocketed. They ended up buying a similar-sized home in a quiet neighborhood in Albuquerque. 25 years later down there, it was a war zone/slum for Hispanic gangbangers. My grandparents are now buried in the Santa Fe National Cemetery.

[Recon Dad]

I liked New Mexico a lot after I became acclimated. I was 18 and boarded a plane in New York City and the next thing I knew I was getting off the airplane at the Albuquerque airport. In 1965 it was not the airport of today. They drove us up to Santa Fe on a bus and you could imagine the state of shock I was in. In the morning I was viewing the New York skyline in the evening..you get the picture.
It took about 6 months to grow to like the place.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Santa Fe is a nice place to visit for a few days, but, alas, like so many “nice” places, it’s been taken over by the superwealthy extreme left New Age fringe. It’s funny that (despite the growth) a lot of the gov’t workers can’t afford to live there and have to schlep the hour drive up I-25 from ABQ 5 days a week. Not a place for folks of modest means or those who are in the political mainstream.