U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich said Tuesday that he supports the
decision by the U.S. Patent Office to cancel patents related to the name
of the Washington Redskins, deeming it offensive to Native Americans. “The U.S. Patent Office took a positive step today toward the goal of
changing the Washington, D.C. football team’s name,” Heinrich said in a
statement on Tuesday. “Racism and bigotry have no place in professional
sports. Our tribal communities have always enhanced New Mexico’s rich
culture and traditions. It’s past time for the football team to change
its name.” Heinrich was one of fifty U.S. Senators to sign onto a letter
to the team’s owner Dan Snyder asking him to change the name. New
Mexico’s other U.S. Senator, Tom Udall, also signed the letter...more
Heinrich is just being PC, but for Udall its another opportunity to scalp Freedom of Speech.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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