Voter Registration Drive at CNM (TVI)

Looks like it will be a wonderful warm sunny day tomorrow for the Voter Registration Drive at Central New Mexico Community College (CNM). The table will open at 9:00 am and close at 6:00 pm. The address is 900 University Blvd on the Student Service Center Plaza just north of the building. Now is the time for students to register and vote for candidates that support Higher Education issues,

We are lucky to be able to say that two other groups will have tables beside ours. There will be an earth day banner that can be signed by the students. We will also have Tom Udall’s group handing out information on my favorite candidates for the U.S. Senate. It also looks like some of the second district court judges may decide to get a table as well. To find the registration table just look for the red, white and blue card table.

May 6 is the deadline for people to register to vote so that they can vote in the primary on June 3. ”Change” is the call coming from students all across the country and now is our opportunity to show the country that the college students in our state care about the future of their country. We have a number of great candidates that need our support this year. There are people who would love to make college students feel like voting is something that should not be talked about in public but this is still a free country and we still have the right to freedom of speech. Our college students need to know that the future is in their hands and they need to educate themselves when it comes to who is running their country.

Some of the major issues facing college students today are the high cost of college tuition and interest rates on student loans. The small increases in financial aide have not keep up with the rising cost of education. We need state senators to support funding for buildings, salaries, and equipment for our colleges. We need support for low cost public transportation for college students because parking has become a major issue at our local city colleges. College students need to show that they support candidates like Tom Udall who received 100% (A+) on educational issues from the children’s defense program. If government wants to hold students responsible for their grades then we will hold public representatives responsible for their grades on supporting affordable access to public education for all individuals. We will institute our own no candidate left behind program and I am sure that college students will do a much better job of funding it then the government had done with it failed policy of no child left behind.