Conservative, DC-based website goes after Heinrich

Getting elected the U.S. Senate has increased the profile of Martin Heinrich but it’s also attracted attention from a conservative website with a national audience. The Daily Caller, which is based in Washington D.C. and founded by pundit Tucker Carlson, has posted a story about Sen. Heinrich with the headline: Democratic New Mexico senator worked closely with convicted eco-terrorist...

The Westerner linked to the Daily Caller article here.


Back in 2008, when Heinrich first ran for Congress, the Albuquerque Journal looked into the issue:

Foreman helped found the radical environmental group Earth First! in the 1980s. But Heinrich said he never condoned that group’s methods.

    “There have been times when even on that board we argued very different approaches on how to do things. I think I had a relatively beneficial impact on them in taking a very mainstream approach.”

    Heinrich prefers to call himself a “conservationist” rather than environmentalist.

    “I’ll be the first to fault some environmental organizations for not being good compromisers,” he said, “for not getting what they want done by reaching out to people who are different.”

Let's hope the Senator is still willing to reach out to folks who are "different".  My recollection of his service on the House Resources committee is that he did the bidding of the environmental community.  By that I mean him taking the leadership in proposing an Omnibus Public Lands bill, and even voting against hunters being able to use a simple game cart  in a Wilderness area.  The  enviros were appreciative of his efforts:

The Daily Caller story reported that the Sierra Club spent $2 million in negative ads against Wilson and that the “League of Conservation Voters was Heinrich’s largest campaign contributor during the 2012 election cycle, donating $154,374.”

Will Senator Heinrich reach over or around the enviros to other groups?  Time will tell.