Officers arrested Peña on suspicion of “helping orchestrate and participate in these four shootings, either at his request or he conducted them personally, himself,” Hartsock added.
After losing, Peña approached the senators and commissioners at their homes with paperwork claiming there was fraud involved in the elections, Albuquerque Police Director of Communications Gilbert Gallegos said.
We all know there is a certain percentage of people who know nothing about a candidate and just vote R or D. And we have seen nuts slip in on both sides if they run unopposed in the primary because of it.
Some people voted for him, is there a breakdown by party of who did? In any case I cede that some republicans voted for him, the question is how many knew how bad his background was and how many just blindly pulled the R lever. Traditionally smash and grab felons don’t do very well with Republican voters so I strongly suspect most of his votes were of the latter as opposed to the former explanation.
How much money did he raise?
Also pretty sure none of them voted for him to go around shooting at democrats if he lost.
Oh and the irony is, the guy he ran against, who tried to have him removed from the ballot because of his criminal past, voted to restore voting rights and eligibility to run for office for convicted felons.
I don’t think that anyone will (or should) blame the voters for any part of this. It is clear that the guy is a nut case. I do agree that there are a lot of folks who pull the lever depending what letter follows the name.
It has never surprised me that there are a lot of one issue, one party voters out there.
