Michelle Lujan Grisham's Benefactor: George Soros

We know why Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the Democrats in the legislature are so intent on imposing gun control and open borders on New Mexico citizens.

Leftist New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg has been funneling contributions to the anti-Second Amendment Democrats in the state.

But that's not all:

George Soros is a Hungarian-born billionaire (worth around $8 billion) who funds leftist politicians and promotes left-wing policies.

From National Review:

Because Soros grew to prominence on the U.S. political scene when he spent more than $25 million trying to defeat President Bush in the 2004 election, most members of the media think of him as just another liberal billionaire — Tom Steyer or Michael Bloomberg with a different accent. But his views are genuinely shocking to middle America when they hear them. 

Soros was flatly opposed to the War on Terror after 9/11 and declared the U.S. response to al Qaeda to be morally equivalent to the terrorist attacks: “We abhor terrorists, because they kill innocent people for political goals. But by waging war on terror we are doing the same thing.” 

In 2006, Soros said that “the main obstacle to a stable and just world is the United States.” Not Iran, not Russia, not China, not Islamist terrorist groups, not transnational crime . . . the United States. 

In 2010, he declared that China has “a better functioning government than the United States.” 

He has generously donated to groups that call on governments the world over to sever or downgrade their diplomatic relations with Israel and calls for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. He’s made several comments that some interpreted as blaming Jews for anti-Semitism, such as, “I don’t think that you can ever overcome anti-Semitism if you behave as a tribe . . . the only way you can overcome it is if you give up the tribalness.” 

He wrote in 2007, “I do believe that attitudes toward Israel are influenced by Israel’s policies, and attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby’s success in suppressing divergent views.” 

Soros is not a fan of national borders or border enforcement. When criticizing Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban in 2017, Soros said, “[Orban’s] plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle. Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle.” In many interviews, Soros has decried nationalism and national identity as a menace.

With outsider contributors like Soros and Bloomberg, no wonder Grisham was able to buy so much ad time to air attack smear ads against Steve Pearce last year.

It is clear that New Mexico's Democrats are beholden to people like Soros and Bloomberg. That is why we have to fight even harder against them to keep the state from being turned into the "People's Republic of New Mexico".