I really enjoy your newspaper and I am very impressed with the quality of research and presentation. If I had any criticism it would be that there is no follow-up. I realize that in a weekly, that is sometimes hard to accomplish. Having said that, I continue with the main point of my letter: Mayor Joseph Maestas’ job with the U.S. Census Bureau.
I worked for the Census Bureau last decade. I took the test and maxed it. Several days later I was called and told that I had a job. It entailed office work and my salary was about $10 an hour. It was not to my liking and I left after a couple of months.
Had I known that they had jobs that paid $70,000 a year, I might have stayed and tried to get one of them. Especially when all it entailed was “establishing relationships with community leaders, to show the community the importance and safety (?) of participating in the Census.”
Of course Santa Fe being so much bigger than Española I would expect much more that the mere $70,000 the mayor is getting.
The questions that came to me after reading your article of course was: why? How Come? How do you get a job like that? Is it a full-time job? Isn’t that his job anyway as mayor and was this job available to anyone and did some congressman have anything to do with the mayor getting this position?
Don’t leave us hanging. Give us the second chapter.
Felipe Roibal
Santa Fe