Barb Wold, who runs the invaluable Democracy for New Mexico blog, is always careful to point out the difference between what she's doing and what people like me in the "mainstream media" do. But sometimes it's a distinction without a difference.

A case in point is yesterday's post on Rep. Ben Ray Luján's position on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the Pentagon's policy on homosexuals in uniform. DFNM had pointedly asked the day before why none of New Mexico's reps had signed on to a bill calling for the policy's repeal. Barb writes:

I'm very pleased to report that Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D, NM-03) called personally this afternoon to explain that there was some foul up with the co-sponsor list, and that he should, in fact, be listed as a co-sponsor of H.R. 1283. Rep. Luján said he supports the repeal of DADT and the letter to the President urging him to act. He said he was checking with his staff and others to find out what had happened, but he wanted to make sure folks back in New Mexico knew of his support for DADT. 

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