New Mexico GOP Chairman Blasts Democrat Governor

Above, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.

Steve Pearce and Michelle Lujan Grisham were contenders for governor in 2018. Lujan Grisham won and we're all now paying the price for that folly.

But Pearce, in his new role as New Mexico Republican Party Chairman, is still speaking out.

He just concluded an interview in which he blasted the governor.

Breitbart reported:

New Mexico Republican Party Chairman Steve Pearce blasted Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, for failing to open up the state despite low instances of coronavirus on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday, hosted by Breitbart News Washington Political Editor Matt Boyle. 

“There are Democratic governors across the country in contravention of the science keeping their states unnecessarily under serious lockdown, and one of those states is New Mexico. Joining us now to talk about this is the New Mexico GOP Chairman Steve Pearce,” Boyle noted. 

“Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, she’s a Democrat, has eased a couple of restrictions in the state, but she’s made even more restrictions in other areas,” Boyle said, then asked Pearce for his reaction. 

“We as the Republican Party of New Mexico have been speaking for small businesses for the past six or seven weeks, saying that you’ve gotta have the same rules for everybody. The big box stores are wide open, the traffic is just crammed in there because they don’t have any other choices. Meanwhile, the small mom and pops that make New Mexico work remain closed and the easing of the restriction laws . . . now the mom and pops can take things out to the curb, who’s going to buy clothes at the curb? They’re going to go into Walmart where they can try them on, feel them, look at them in different colors. It’s just totally unfair,” Pearce, the 2018 Republican nominee for governor and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, told Boyle. 

“You did mention that a couple of restrictions got eased, but the same day she did that, she sent six or seven uniformed State Police in to deliver a $60,000 fine to a small business that was just opened up in Grants, New Mexico. Gallup is right down the road from Grants, moving west, right on the Arizona border, and that is locked down. The Navajo Nation is very hard hit, so that could be understandable, why they’re trying to really limit travel in and out of that area. The Navajo Nation is asking for pretty severe restrictions. The mayor of Gallup. But the rest of New Mexico, we’ve got counties that are not even effected at all with cases. She’s requiring people to drive out of those counties into the big metropolitan areas to do their shopping because all the businesses have been closed down,” Pearce said. 

“You know, that $60,000 fine, that was a veteran. He’s now disabled. He and his wife just eking out a living, $60,000 it takes you years to get that kind of actual cash in the bank. There’s just no way that a small business has got it, so another small business in New Mexico is going to go broke because of the governor’s orders,” he went on to say.

Pearce has a lot more to say about the current conditions in New Mexico.

To read more, go here.