New Mexico Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn has switched his political party from Republican to Libertarian and filed papers this week to run for U.S. Senate. “I think Martin Heinrich is doing a bad job,” Dunn said. “He’s probably more harmful to New Mexico than any other politician out there, and if there’s a way to unseat him it would be great for the citizens and our grandchildren.” Dunn decided to switch to the Senate race after initially getting into the 2nd Congressional District race. On Tuesday, he turned in 260 Libertarian signatures to the Secretary of State’s office which was more than enough to put him on the ballot in November as a Libertarian. “I became disillusioned with what was happening in the Republican party,” Dunn said. “It appeared to me that Congressman Pearce was supporting Yvette Harrell, and the Governor’s office was behind Monte Newman, and it was going to be hard to beat up on people that I’m friends with.” Dunn suggested that going Libertarian could be the ticket to winning the seat. “Senator Heinrich’s approval rating is less than 50 percent,” he said. “You could get 34 percent of the vote and that would be enough to swing it. Both Republicans and Democrats have gotten so far to the left and right that they are leaving all of us in the middle out and it’s a real opportunity.
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