Democrats, really
I enjoy reading Sherry Robinson’s columns, All She Wrote, but I have to take exception to last week’s issue. She supported the five moderate Republicans, ( Democrats). As a kid growing up in a Republican family, back in the 1960s, that’s what my parents voted for.
However, they’re now so called Democrats, and the five control the Senate committees and therefore the bills that the legislature gets to vote on or not. If they don’t like a bill, it’s tabled, or just not discussed at the committee level.
John Arthur Smith is the financial guru and has controlled all spending bills for 31 years. So why is New Mexico still competing with Mississippi for last place in education and personal income? Why are Mary Kay Paypen and Clemente Sanchez such strong fossil fuel supporters, mainly oil and gas, when oil and gas is now begging for even more tax subsidies?
We have $23 billion sitting in New York investments. That’s basically $10,000 for every man, woman, and child in the Mexico. Why is that money, or at least some of it, not invested in New Mexico?
A state bank would be great. Buying out PNM which has a 9 percent-plus return, makes a lot of sense. Supporting wind turbine manufacturing, so that we’re no longer one of the three states that doesn’t manufacture wind turbine components. We are, from state finances, are thankfully developing wind energy.
Building out the transmission line capacity to be able to export our renewable energy, we are number second in solar in twelfth in wind in the U.S.
Instead we keep electing moderate conservative Democratic Republicans and continue to stay at the bottom of the heap.
Ward B. McCartney III
Belen