Martin Heinrich shoots commercials for campaign today

Martin Heinrich is using real voters in his commercials. While most candidates pay actors and actresses to create fake commercials that show them with families and the elderly, Martin Heinrich is using real people in his commercials. Martin is a grassroots candidate who has a great deal of local supporters who were completely thrilled to appear in his commercials. This allows Martin the ability to spend his money on air time instead of fake voters.

How do I know that the people are real in his commercials? My twelve year old daughter really likes Martin and has said that he is a very nice person. She met Martin during the 2006 campaigns. When I told her that he was getting ready to make his commercials she asked if she could be in one. She is studying film making in her middle school. I said yes to her request to be in one of his commercials and this morning we showed up for the filming. Martin had sent out a request for supporter who wished to appear in his commercials earlier in the month.

I think it is good that our children have a good family man to look up to when it comes to our federal government and that same person supports high quality education for our children. I as a mother am very pleased that Martin Heinrich is opposed to "No Child Left Behind" because it has damaged our children's schools. When schools can no longer take children on field trips because of testing requirements, the harm to their education becomes crystal clear. Their education is being limited to national questions that have nothing to do with local culture. If we want our children to be creative thinkers then we need to encourage them to explore their own world, they need to be able to answer questions for themselves rather then being told this is the only correct answer to a test question. Life does not provide a instruction manual with all of the correct answers therefore our children need to be able to reason things out for themselves.

Martin Heinrich also is a strong supporter of environmental causes. He is known for his work on the Albuquerque Bernalillo Water Utility Authority board. We here in Albuquerque and New Mexico live in the high desert and must carefully plan our usage of water. We can not just stop growth in our city but we should look at ways to manage it in a sound way. Too many people would just stop growth or let it go on uncontrolled neither is the right answer. Without growth our city's economy would be harmed but uncontrolled growth will also harm our standard of living in this city in the future. With the right people in the Senate and the Congress we can provide the laws that will enable us to plan carefully for future growth of our cities in the Southwest without destroying our economy in the process. Clean drinkable water will become a major issue in the future and we need someone in office who has a good understanding of our future needs.

Darren White is going to find that he will have a hard time attacking Martin Heinrich as being a classical democrat. Martin Heinrich clearly has solid family values and has shown that he is willing to be a good steward of our land and water here in the southwest. White has questionable values when it comes to his family and his community. He has been a very vocal supporter of the Bush Administration even if it has caused great harm to the middle class in this country. I support Martin Heinrich because I want sensible change in Washington. I want someone in our Congressional District that will have a strong family support base and someone who starts out with the right values. I just can't see someone like Darren White who loves the attention and not his community as being good for New Mexico's or our nation's welfare.