For the next two years republicans and our new woman governor will find that the state house of representatives is controlled by a kind gentle lion by the name of Ben Lujan Sr. Even with the new republicans in office it will be hard to change the direction of this state when it comes to humanitarian issues like immigration, capital punishment, and the environment.
Our new governor would do better to stick to balancing the budget on the backs of overpaid top educational administration. It will be only too interesting to see if she can cut some of those overpriced paychecks in state education without harming our children in the classrooms. Clearly Top Educational Administration feels that they are far too valuable to have their pay cut and will fight tooth and nail with their highly paid lobbyists to keep the governor from taking one feather from their well lined nest. After all what is more important to them their lobbyists and public image consultants or our children.
One APS high school science teacher put it plainly recently when she said I have a zero dollar budget this year for science supplies for my classroom. If we want our state to improve when it comes to our children’s education then we need to start by changing the value system of the people who are responsible for running that system. Clearly without instructional support staff and supplies teachers have little hope of improving how they deliver classroom instruction. Training for teachers is another area which is in bad need of support. Administration does not need to be the ones sent to conferences on taxpayer’s dollars. The time for luxury items for top educational administration is over and their pay needs to be cut in order to more wisely spend that money in the classroom where it should have been spent all along.
One does have to wonder why Martinez a catholic would oppose the Pope’s stand on Capital Punishment. The church has made it clear that they do not support this rather uncivilized form of punishment for criminals. After all the church and all of its members has a duty to protect the sanctity of life. Still this is an issue that divides us all because of the need to protect our brave police officers and our children. This was an issue that even Governor Richardson struggled with for a long time before ending the practice in our state.
As for illegal immigrants this is a difficult question for all New Mexicans since we just don’t have the resources at this point in time to support more people in our state. We have a duty to provide for our legal residents to start with who need the jobs and the money provided for by our tax dollars. Still we already have people in this state illegally who are working hard to get an education and it will not go well for anyone if we keep these people uneducated and restrict their ability to provide a living for themselves and their families. Clearly more must be done to force these individuals into applying for legal citizenship and forcing them to become legal workers in our country. Still this is a national issue that states should not be dealing with alone. It is far past time that our federal government got to work on this issue and gave states along the border some much needed relief.
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Teddy)
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."
The O'Coilean (O'Collins)
'A great host with whom it is not fortunate to contend, the battle-trooped host of the O'Coileain."
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
From NPR Radio
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk.
Martin walked so Obama could run.
Obama ran so our children can fly!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
Unknown
"Friendship is loving someone no matter what is in their past. It is accepting the fact that they are human and that they have made their share of mistakes over a life time. Trust is being able to tell your friend the most private secret knowing that they will not judge you. A life is not lived well without that one true and trusted friendship."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
"My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Will Rogers
"I don't belong to an organized party--I'm a democrat."
President John F. Kennedy, Democrat
“If by a ‘liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties—someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal.’”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Lora O'Brien
"All I can do is share one person's experiences on her own path, not tell you how to walk yours. If a guru is what you are looking for, find another! If I am a teacher, it is because I am already walking the path that you, Dear Reader, may wish to be on. Although each of us must make our own way, I can put up signs at least, and make the way slightly less hazardous for those who wish to walk a similar path."
C. S. Lewis
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."
The O'Coilean (O'Collins)
'A great host with whom it is not fortunate to contend, the battle-trooped host of the O'Coileain."
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
From NPR Radio
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk.
Martin walked so Obama could run.
Obama ran so our children can fly!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
Unknown
"Friendship is loving someone no matter what is in their past. It is accepting the fact that they are human and that they have made their share of mistakes over a life time. Trust is being able to tell your friend the most private secret knowing that they will not judge you. A life is not lived well without that one true and trusted friendship."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
"My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Will Rogers
"I don't belong to an organized party--I'm a democrat."
President John F. Kennedy, Democrat
“If by a ‘liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties—someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal.’”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Lora O'Brien
"All I can do is share one person's experiences on her own path, not tell you how to walk yours. If a guru is what you are looking for, find another! If I am a teacher, it is because I am already walking the path that you, Dear Reader, may wish to be on. Although each of us must make our own way, I can put up signs at least, and make the way slightly less hazardous for those who wish to walk a similar path."
C. S. Lewis
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
A Female Democrat
1/1/10 A new year and a number of future elections to cover. The budget will be a major issue this year and we must work hard to protect the core values of our party.