Can Heather Wilson pick up a Senate seat in New Mexico?

A nice piece on Heather in the Washington Post.


The issue of the enviros' proposal for National Monuments came up and here's what she had to say:

On the topic of immigration, she said, “I support legal immigration.” However, she added, “I don’t support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.” But for her, “Border security is a safety issue.” The danger and crime threat to her state from smugglers, narcotics traffickers and corruption make it essential to control who is coming into the country. She pointed out that her likely opponent wrote to the president requesting that he bypass Congress and designate an Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in Doña Ana County. If that huge area along the border were designated a monument, it would, Wilson argued, quickly become a point for illegal border entry by the drug cartels and a sanctuary from law enforcement, who wouldn’t be able to use motorized vehicles on the land.