The Republican Party of New Mexico has raised allegations against state officials, claiming that they are politically motivated in their efforts to disrupt a Trump rally planned for Albuquerque. According to the GOP and Trump campaign representatives, arrangements had been made to provide shuttle service for supporters from a parking lot at Isleta Amphitheater to the rally venue at CSI Aviation. However, state officials reportedly blocked the use of the amphitheater’s parking lot, citing contract restrictions that allow parking only for events held directly at the amphitheater.
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign told KRQE-TV that the arrangement with Live Nation, the company managing the amphitheater, was established in advance. Live Nation agreed to provide parking for rally attendees who would then be shuttled to the event location nearby. But on Tuesday, state officials intervened, stating that the parking lot was strictly reserved for events directly hosted at the Isleta Amphitheater, adding that parking for an offsite event violated the terms of the lot’s lease agreement.
Jim Townsend, a Republican representative in the New Mexico legislature, believes that the intervention is more than just a misunderstanding, labeling it as a politically motivated maneuver designed to hinder the rally. “This just doesn’t pass the smell test,” Townsend remarked. “This is clearly a political process.” He further highlighted that there has been a precedent for using the amphitheater’s lot for events held elsewhere, questioning why this time would be different.
Townsend went on to criticize the decision in a more pointed social media post, stating, “This is outrageous. This is sheer, naked, bitter partisanship. It should enrage you.” His comments gained traction as the GOP state party reposted his remarks to rally support and raise awareness among Trump supporters about the parking dispute.
Stephanie Garcia Richard, the New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands and a Democrat, defended the state’s actions, asserting that her office was simply upholding the contract’s terms. Garcia Richard explained that Live Nation’s lease with the state confines the use of the parking lot to events held directly at the amphitheater, meaning the Trump rally at a different location would fall outside its permitted use.
“Their contract is for the amphitheater,” Garcia Richard clarified, adding, “So, either they didn’t read the lease they had with us, or they wanted to make me kind of the fall guy for this situation because this is not of my creation.” Garcia Richard emphasized that she had no intention of blocking any political event and that her decision was based solely on the contractual guidelines governing the amphitheater’s lot.
Garcia Richard further explained that Live Nation could potentially use the amphitheater parking lot if the rally itself were held on amphitheater grounds. “If Live Nation were to have an event at the amphitheater themselves and maybe schedule the rally at the amphitheater, then the parking lot could be used,” she stated. But since the rally is being held at CSI Aviation, a separate venue, using the lot would constitute a breach of Live Nation’s lease terms with the state.
Despite Garcia Richard’s explanation, Townsend and other New Mexico Republicans are not convinced. Townsend argued that the parking lot had been previously used for an offsite event without any apparent issues and accused Garcia Richard of applying a double standard to block a conservative rally.
“For the lack of a better word, I’ll just say bologna,” Townsend commented. “That’s not true, and I don’t believe it for a minute.” Townsend suggested that if this were an event for a Democrat, the same obstacles might not be raised.
In response, Garcia Richard refuted the accusation of double standards, asserting that she has no interest in selectively applying rules for political purposes. “If I would have authorized it for one party and not another, for one candidate and not another, I could see that being politically motivated,” Garcia Richard explained, adding, “This is just something, in general, we do not do.”
The parking dispute is not the only setback the Trump campaign has encountered in planning its Albuquerque rally. City officials allegedly discouraged the Trump campaign from using the Albuquerque Convention Center as the rally location, a move that GOP representatives are also attributing to partisan motivations. According to the Trump campaign, the decision to block the convention center was one of the initial hurdles they faced when planning the rally, adding to the complications in securing a venue and enough parking for attendees.
Amid these challenges, the campaign team has been scrambling to secure an alternative parking arrangement for Thursday’s event to accommodate what they expect to be a large turnout. The GOP asserts that these obstacles are part of a broader attempt by state and city officials to stifle conservative events and limit the visibility of Republican candidates and causes in New Mexico.
With Election Day approaching, both sides appear to be entrenched in their positions. New Mexico Republicans, who have framed the parking restrictions as a clear case of political interference, continue to push back against what they see as unfair treatment. State officials, on the other hand, insist that the decisions made are purely logistical and based on contractual obligations, with no partisan motivations involved.
As the rally nears, the debate over parking and venue access underscores a heightened level of tension between Republican event organizers and Democratic state officials in New Mexico. The incident reflects broader national discussions on public space, partisanship, and the challenges of campaign logistics as political events continue to draw large, enthusiastic crowds.
For now, the Trump campaign will need to finalize a workable plan to ensure supporters have access to the rally without interference, setting the stage for a contentious event and likely further accusations from New Mexico Republicans should any additional obstacles arise.
The sad truth is the Democrat “elite” in DC look down on the people who are suffering in this country.
They look down on the mother mourning her son who died of a fentanyl overdose.
They look down on the cops & Border Patrol Agents who keep our nation safe.
They look down on the families who can’t afford rising grocery prices.
They look down on us. All of us. But on November 5th, they’re going to learn just how powerful all of us really are.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden ought to be arrested, but not just for last night’s comments.
When Communist Anti-American Joe Biden called every one who stands with President Trump, garbage.!
They ought to be ashamed for the deliberate destruction of the greatest country in the history of the world – but you and I know they have no shame, no remorse, no heart, no compassion.!
This country has given Kamala everything, but instead of being grateful, she goes out of her way to consistently demonize decent people like you and I. Communist Kamala can’t answer any questions given to her and goes out of her way to attack President Trump instead.
What ever your plans are on Election day, for Gods sake please hold them off and get out and Vote for President Trump, then you can presume your plans.
I am 83 years old and I have never seen in my entire life span, anything that matches all the Crap and LIES that comes out of the mouths of grown, supposedly smart people who call themselves democrats. I have NEVER seen or known anyone who HATED ONE MAN, so much that they are willing to destroy a Country (USA) completely because of their hate. 95% of those who hate Trump don’t even know why they hate him. Is it because they heard someone else say they hate him, or is it because they are SCARED of Him. Not because of what he says, but because of what he will do, (He will TAKE AWAY THEIR POWER) and they, the scared little chickens don’t know what to do without their power. (Drain the Swamp) Money doesn’t matter near as much as their power to them. There are over a 100 things that President Trump done for America when he was in the White House before, yet none of the dumocrats have taken the time or trouble to look or read about these things he did and he will do more next term. I hope and Pray that he does make a list of all the sorry politicians and news so call reporters who have LIED CONTINUELLY about Him, remember what goes around comes around. If by some miracle and it will be a miracle if Tinker bell harris wins, OUR COUNTRY as we know it will cease to exists, we will become a third world country like Argentina or Brazil by the time her term would be over. My Mother used to tell me, be careful what You wish for, because you just night get it. I will say this in closing, Poor Black People have been voting Democrat for the last 50 or 60 years, and guess what, they are still POOR, the dumocrats have been using and promising them forever and as soon as the election is over with, they forget about them. Please don’t vote because of somebody else, make up your own mind, look up the facts, see what Trump done when He was in office before, then look up harris, she has not answered a single question question she she started running for office. oh, and by the way, she is the first person to run for the democratic party ever, ever, that has not been elected by the party, she was appointed by dum dum joe, not elected by the party, she never wen through the election process and she had rather climb a 40 ft. pole and tell a LIE (many) than to stand on the ground and tell the TRUTH, (which she hasn’t).
Hutchinson Robert; excellent truthful commentary sir! And you’re spot on!
God bless you and yours Fellow American!
That’s the ticket Brother Michael! Finely stated and the whole truth!
These are the real despots of the earth some of the worst right here in our American government! They speak that same language that the ever so evil Killery speaks just like when she called all President Trump supporters and those that vote Red for Republican the “Deplorable’s,” she hating at least half the population in one fell swoop; but even worse than that she hates God and therefore all of us as she belongs to Satan! And Michael you hit the nail on the head because when you say these “elite” that is the focal point of who and what they are and they are of that ilk around the planet who have “sold their souls to Satan” for power, then all being members of that most diabolical organization of “The Globalist Elite!”
They have the nerve to look down on all of us the masses of common folk who have built and maintained all of the great good in America or even “fought and died to protect it” and “We the People” while they the leadership were “supposed to watch over the flock and protect us” which some did at one time, but now the paradigm is skewed and trying to flip end over end to make all of us the slaves to those few like “Harris and Biden on down the line of all those most despotic evil souls that serve Satan himself,” and they have no care what happens to anyone but themselves, being as “selfish and evil to the core as their master that ‘father of all lies’ the Devil himself.”
These are the same people who had the global population in lock-downs for a cold (Covid Cult) that had an actual 99.98% survival rate if left to natural heard immunity that God put in His children’s genes. Even that notorious Fauci was made to admit that the 6 foot social distancing and masking up was an arbitrary useless and unnecessary measure they just threw out to the public! That same public that they now call garbage which they were and still are trying to “manipulate and control for their own evil intentions” in order to be in “total control and rule the earth as the demonic cabal” which they are “permanent members” of having sold their souls to Satan! They will not change and they are owned by the evil forces of hell, so they are the garbage and must be stopped; and by “God Almighty in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Savior and Redeemer” they are going to be!
Folks please keep praying, and get out to vote; then like Brother Michael said to be with your families in full unity and love for one another and most assuredly our God in heaven!
Amen.
“For the Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7.
Thank you brother Lawrence, now we’ve already seen what the Communist Democrats have done in Oregon and Washington State where they’ve tried to set fire to votes in drop boxes. As you and I know this illegal action will start a trend across the Nation.
That’s why I always vote in person, it goes to show the Communist will continue to find ways to cheat.
My family and I have voted early for President Trump, I guess that makes my family and I garbage for voting for President Trump according to Communist Biden and the entire Communist Democrats.
Ha, ha, ha, can’t wait to be picked up and taken to the landfill.
This message is for pedophile Joe Biden and that whore Kamala Harris, it’s you that turned America into garbage and we’re going to clean it up.!
Jesus Christ is coming and you Communist Democrats and Rinos are going to Hell to serve your master Satan.
Amen
I believe that over the years, the democratic party has converted to the party of satin. They do not want you to even say prayer for our country, all they want to do is destroy it. I believe that God has sent Trump to help us, but we all have to do our part.
Merky; that is absolutely true and accurate. Sadly I must say much of what is going wrong in America started many years ago with pulling “a moment silence and prayer” out of Public Schools and pushing wacky liberal ideas on kids instead, along with promoting communism from grades schools and especially on into the universities or colleges!
Then Obama came along with the evil Globalist and Marxist Agenda the COUP DE GRÂCE with PC on into Full WOKE to create more division, with some of the worst infiltration of our society on all levels during those 8 worst years of the Obama/Biden fraud administration! I know those guys sure pleased Soros and Satan their regular attendee buddies at the “Annual World Economic Forum DAVOS Elitist shindig meetings for over 50 years now! Interesting how that is about how long Biden the professional crook so called politician has been servicing America!
No coincidence folks it’s all part of their plan that they hatched with the father of all lies!
Michael, thank you again as well to both you and your family for hanging in there being such good fellow Christian American Patriots! Yes the schemers and cheaters are continually pushing the envelope and of course with an administration that’s fanning the flames of hate and division why wouldn’t they, being of little or no faith in God; and this along with the law breakers at the top who get away with it suffering no apparent consequences for their many major crimes, the leftist communist riff-raff figure they can do as they please too!
So because they get away with it; “rule of law” has nearly vanished or is severely suppressed in many locales in America, and with the flood of illegal invading scoundrels, gangs, drug cartels, terrorists etc. that have been allowed to walk right in over the last three and half years, this is a surefire recipe for mayhem down the road if it’s not stopped in the near term; please folks vote for Trump/Vance! Push has now come to shove and so indeed we are going to clean it up as you said brother, by God’s grace and love “We the People” can carry on to serve His will on earth,” as it is in heaven!
You said it as far as Biden and Harris go, they have one place and one place only they can go, and that is down, into the bottomless pit for eternity; so let their arrogance display itself now for the world to see, because that is their “swan song” before they get “the whole enchilada” right down their lying mouths and throats! They will give the Devil his due, as he calls in their contracts!
Romans 3:13-14 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.” 14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
Isaiah 3:11 “Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him, For what he deserves will be done to him.”
Matthew 25:46 “These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Amen and Amen!
God bless you and yours!
God bless America with New Leadership, Trump/Vance!
God Bless you and yours too brother.
I wanted to make some Tee shirts this year but a couple of Hurricanes sidetracked me.
“Even her accent lies”
We don’t even have to talk about McDonalds or dozens of other lies, fomenting hatred, tearing this country apart and wanting to lead it? Really?
Let’s say it like it is; she is one of the least qualified, stupidest and most evil persons to ever be considered as the leader of America; yet the evil cabal has hoisted her up as a so called contender when “she is nothing, a total ZERO!”
Some I know are unhinged and out of control with absolute “defiance” which is their mantra and is the same way Satan thinks. So this is a very scary circumstance to be in, as these people would prefer to push the button to end the whole damned mess in one big fireball if they can’t have their own way!
Some high ranking military officials in Russia have spoken in that way when confronted with the question of whether they can keep their status-quo agenda such as the invasion of Ukraine along with their long standing Russian agenda of the proliferation of communism. And this is how Marxist minds work seeing as it was spawned by Satan back with Karl Marx who even openly worshiped Satan and convinced his own two daughters to commit suicide!
CHECK IT OUT.
UNREAL!
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Isaiah 35:3-5 “Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees! 4Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.” 5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.”
Marxism, Freemasonry & Brotherhood – Fr. Mark Goring, CC
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IF it has been used more than one time for other venues, or even used by the State for other purpose then the “selective nature” of the political intervention becomes apparent. At that point there is “irreparable harm” involved and a suit against the State and the employee who ordered the closure is warranted.
Place me on the jury, I would award 10 million as irreparable harm was done (if the parking had ever been used more than once for other purposes. IF I was God, the persons who intervened (and I would trace all communication first) would face termination and possible conspiracy charges. BTW, start with the FOIA requests for ALL communication that lead to this.