Our Mission Statement

To protect working families by investigating and exposing the actions, agendas, and hypocrisy of conservative candidates, elected and appointed officials and interest groups while supporting political candidates who believe that government has the ability to improve the lives of all our citizens and not just an elite few.
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The Real "Shadowy" Groups
May 19, 2012.
Shadowy groups are opaque.  They do not disclose funding.  They do not publish documentation to support their claims.  They are not committed to the facts.  And they most certainly do not care one bit about working families.  Click on the link below and read how one of these real shadowy groups is attacking teachers.  The article mentions Sarah Lenti, policy advisor at the State Government Leadership Foundation.  She is also the sister of LeighAnn Lenti, policy director at PED under Secretary Designate, Hannah Skandera.   It's one big agenda-driven family, set on painting hard-working teachers as villains.
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/05/19/upfront/secretive-group-attacks-teachers-unions.html
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DIRTY DOWNS DEAL!
Click on the links below to see ISPAC's most recent coverage of the Downs Deal:
Pay to Play Time Line
Downs Deal Players Org Chart
Memorandum: ISPAC Investigation
Downs Statement
Letter to FBI
Article Index (for the whole story!)
The Dirty Downs Deal Report
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New Mexico's Spyglass Issue No. 2 has arrived! Read it here!
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INVESTIGATION REPORTS
Read in-depth reports:
Hanna Skandera and Her Mismanagement of NMPED
The Dirty Downs Deal

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Paid for by Independent Source Pac and not authorized by any party, candidate or candidate's committee.  Contact us at:  Independent Source Pac,
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ABQ Journal Endorsement Proves Our Point
May 17, 2012

Today the Albuquerque Journal editorial board has confirmed everything Independent Source PAC has been stating about the campaign of the primary opponent to Democratic House Majority Whip Sheryl Williams Stapleton.

The Journal has spent several months attacking Representative Sheryl Williams Stapleton--one of the strongest Democrats standing in the way of Republican Governor Susana Martinez’s harmful  agenda for New Mexico. 

Most recently, the Journal editorial board condemned the Albuquerque Public School board for not forcing Sheryl Williams Stapleton, a long-term employee, to stop serving in the legislature.

The Journal editorial board backs Martinez in all her efforts, including attempts to get  Representative Williams Stapleton out of the legislature.

The latest attack on Representative Williams Stapleton is to endorse her primary opponent, Cara Valente-Compton.

The Journal’s endorsement highlighted Valente-Compton’s parroting of Martinez’s and their own attacks on Representative Williams Stapleton. (read more)
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HD 19: Working Families Scratch Their Heads and Wonder
May 9, 2012

No other legislator in New Mexico has been attacked the way Democratic House Majority Whip Sheryl Williams Stapleton has been. Susana Martinez and the Republican leaning news media have ganged up on her and the reason is obvious.  (read more)
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Messing with Voting Rights for Minorities No Small Thing
May 7, 2012

“Shadowy group”, “smear campaign”, --phrases uttered by Susana Martinez, her political team and the NM GOP whenever Independent Source PAC exposes their wrongdoing. 

Now Cara Valente-Compton, primary opponent to Sheryl Williams Stapleton for HD 19,  is using the same Republican language to attack ISPAC.(read more)
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"FACT ARE STUBBORN THINGS" (John Adams)
May 6, 2012

Independent Source PAC has exposed the extensive role Steve Cabiedes, the campaign manager for Sheryl Williams Stapleton’s primary opponent, in Republican Party efforts to make it more difficult for minorities and the poor to register to vote. (read more)

As always, ISPAC’s information is fully documented and easy to verify. The truth is never sleazy; it is just the truth.   (Read our leaflet here and judge for yourself).
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ISPAC RESPONDS TO GOP’S FRIVOLOUS RETALIATION
May 4, 2012

Retaliation: The New Mexico GOP filed frivolous allegations with the FEC against ISPAC in retaliation for blowing the whistle on pay-to-play activity by Governor Susana Martinez and others regarding the awarding of the billion dollar plus racino contract (Dirty Downs Deal). 

Unable to attack the information we developed, the GOP has resorted to attacking the messenger. (read  more)
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In Latest Attack, Governor Martinez Suggests “Drastic Changes” For Public Employee Pensions 
May 3, 2012

At the Special Meeting of the New Mexico State Board of Finance presided over by Governor Susana Martinez on Monday, Apr 30, 2012, the latest prong of attack on public employee families and the educational community seemed to be ramping up.(read more)

You can click on the video of the very long meeting here … the discussion on pensions begins at about 50 minutes into the meeting.
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Breaking News: 
Supposed Independent Purchasing Agent Assigned to Evaluate the Appeal by Laguna Development Actually Worked on the Downs Deal Himself! Another Ringer Brought in to Push this Corrupt Deal to Fruition. Click here to read the proof.
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PHIL'S CORNER

SUSANA PAC'S FINANCE REPORT PROVIDES PORTAL TO ANOTHER WORLD
May 17, 2012

What saps we are for not getting into the political game, where the money is so, so sweet. 

A close friend of mine used to say he was going to run for public office. Our running joke was that I would be campaign manager, not because I wanted to get a good man into government but because I wanted campaign cash. I pictured myself in a convertible Corvette, playboying about town wearing a half-tucked suit and a stupid grin. Whenever I'd get into trouble for roguish carousing I could open my suit jacket and pull out a fistful of $100 bills to toss into the air. I could yell "Money!" as my tires screeched and zipped me to my next campaign fundraiser. 

Our elected officials should be representative of the larger populace, right? The idea of democratic government, I've always thought, is that we vote for people who share our values or views on important issues, injecting them into the political machine to hopefully do right by us. 

It's no secret money is dominating modern politics, but what's most important to consider is how completely different political money is for the people who work in that field than working-stiff money is for most of us. These people operate on a whole other playing field, in a whole other sport. (read more)
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Skandera's Non-Answers Say A Lot About Non-Reform
May 15, 2012
Wanna see something scary? 

The Albuquerque Journal asked New Mexico Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera about the concerns of school officials that the Public Education Department's A-F rating's system is too confusing. This was her answer: 

“Fundamentally, and we’ve said this from the get-go, we want to champion success. I’ve always said, you’re always looking ahead for the next thing you can do to serve your school. I can promise you if those parents look at the school report card, they’re going to go, ‘darn it, I do want my kids to do better.’ ”

What? A highly paid government official in such an important job should not sound like Will Ferrill playing George Bush on Saturday Night Live, and that's why this is scary. (read more)
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A Visit with the Occupiers in Santa Fe
May 8, 2012 

When Dwight Eisenhower was president, the richest Americans payed a roughly 90 percent income tax rate. 

Today, millionaire Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pays about 14 percent of his income back to the government in taxes.

When Dwight Eisenhower was president of the United States, "he built the interstate highway system,", said Rick Fisher, who lives in Santa Fe. 

Today, public school budgets and women's health programs and food banks and police departments and so much more are having their budgets cut due to lack of revenues. 

"People had a sense back then (during Eisenhower's administration) that this country is what provided for their health and their well being," said Fisher. "We've lost that. The rich earned their money on the backs of America, either selling stuff to the American people, or using our infrastructure, or mining on land that belongs to the people." (read more)
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New Center Opens to Aid Workers
May 8, 2012

Workers with questions about their rights have a valuable new resource in the fight against unfair labor practices. The Santa Fe Worker Center officially opened its doors this week at the headquarters of Somos Un Pueblo Unido (1804 Espinacitas St.).  (read more)
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