No! She has been far from a do nothing governor. Our
governor has done many things to harm our state.
Our governor started out by opposing job creation by cutting
the tax credit to the film industry. She opposed our spaceport. She opposed our
commuter train. A well-supported commuter train could promote small businesses
growth around the local stops. Rather than spending time promoting our state as
a place to do business and visit, she went out on the campaign trail to
increase her own job profile. Less time supporting the GOP and more time
supporting local employers would keep New Mexican workers employed. How about a
real all of the above approach to energy production, where is the governor’s
support for green energy jobs? Where is
the governor’s support of our National Labs?
The governor’s appointee for Secretary of Education has been
busy selling our educational system to private for profit corporations, which
drains taxpayer’s dollars for our school systems. Why is the appointee not promoting parent
interaction through programs directed at education? She could encourage parents
to work with the schools to get children to eat healthy and exercise.
The
governor could have promoted bicycle trails to and from local schools. She
could have encouraged employers to give employees paid time to exercise during
working hours. She could have encouraged local farmers to provide healthy foods
to school systems through tax breaks. No, she was far too busy selling off our
school systems to Corporate America.
Governor Martinez is opposed to illegal aliens getting
driver licenses. As a former district attorney, she should have found ways to
speed up getting people the correct paperwork so that they could legally work
in our country. Working with Mexico on this, guns, the drug issues could have
promoted more jobs and international trade all at the same time. We do not have
to support illegal immigration to fix the problem. We could have fixed the
problem by designing a different license that would have solved the problem
long ago and meet federal standards at the same time.
Governor Martinez failed the residents of the City of
Albuquerque by cutting backroom deals for our fairgrounds. She supported the
hiring of a disgraced law enforcement individual to run a building project
where he has no skills.
Governor Martinez promoted and signed into law tax cuts for
corporation, while forcing local cities and towns to increase taxes on working
New Mexicans to pay for that tax cut.
Governor Martinez is no friend to the women in this state.
She should be replaced with a candidate who puts working New Mexican families first
and foremost above any party. Governor
Martinez has done a lot in the last few years and none of it has been
beneficial to working middle class New Mexicans.
