I Never Understood “Respect New Mexico”
But I understand Santa Fe Democrats “Disrespect New Mexicans.”
I have read the “Respect New Mexico” billboard at Clines Corner a hundred times and never understood the message. However, this past Sunday, I passed the billboards, but this time I was thinking about the misery and suffering of New Mexicans (I attended the second memorial service in thirty days). New Mexicans are suffering due to the Santa Fe Democrat’s policies. Then “Santa Fe Democrats Disrespect New Mexicans” seemed to appear on the billboard.
Santa Fe Democrats Disrespect New Mexicans when…
Santa Fe Democrats ignore criminals, violent criminals, and transnational criminal organizations. New Mexicans suffer. Crime statistics would show an increase (if not for the reclassification of crimes or failure to record crimes), murders are at recorded highs (can’t reclassify the murdered), and fentanyl overdoses are at record highs. Yet, Santa Fe Democrats would not even pass legislation that would keep violent criminals off the street so as not to be able to intimate the witnesses, murder the witnesses, or murder others.
Albuquerque’s democrat mayor and council members ignore the auto racing, auto drifting, and motorcycle stunt riding on our streets and focus on law-abiding citizens. The Albuquerque mayor and city council members have sent 44,000 Albuquerque drivers hundred-dollar fines while ignoring those motorists and motorcycle riders’ behavior that can kill Albuquerque residents.
Albuquerque’s democrat mayor and city council members ignore the drug buys on Central Avenue and focus on enforcing parking regulations and collecting parking fines from law-abiding residents. When two people were filming drug buys on Central Ave, Tobias Gutierrez threatened to kill them. A few months later, APD arrested Tobias Gutierrez for suspension of stabbing eleven people on Central Ave.
Santa Fe Democrats focus on law-abiding New Mexican’s right to bear arms while ignoring felons who illegally use and possess firearms. Darian Bashir was arrested for shooting an individual, a gang-related drive-by shooting, and was released back into our neighborhoods until he murdered UNM baseball player Jackson Weller. Darian Bashir is finally behind bars because he murdered someone the Santa Fe Democrats cared about.
Santa Fe Democrats focus on ending-life care while ignoring life-improving care for New Mexicans. New Mexico leads the nation for late-term medically assisted miscarriages and medically assisted suicide. At the same time, New Mexico is worse than average for teen birth rate, infant mortality rate, heart disease, drug overdose, COVID deaths, and the sixth worst state to be a physician.
Santa Fe Democrats focus on regulations and taxes that drive good-paying jobs to other states. New Mexico’s four-hundred billion investment in Virgin Galactic was insufficient to overcome the disincentives to build their spaceship manufacturing facility here. Albuquerque’s X-Bow Systems is building a new rocket motor facility in Texas. No wonder New Mexico ranks forty-fifth for average income in the nation and dead last of the surrounding states.
Santa Fe Democrats focus on the NEA/NM and AFT NM education system, while New Mexico’s students perform at the bottom of all states. Mimi Stewart and Sheryl Williams Stapleton, Albuquerque Public School staff/leaders and teacher union members, led the New Mexico legislature for almost thirty years. It is not by chance that NM students are at the bottom; Mimi and Sheryl sacrificed our children for the sake of the teacher’s union.
Santa Fe Democrat’s (from the Pinon Post and Freedom Family United ) Andrew Sanchez, their school board instructor, informed new school board members, “So, this all boils down to parental rights being: They have the right to pick the system they want their kid to enter, but once they enter it, they cannot tell a public school how to teach their child or what to teach your child.” Andrew Sanchez later stated, “Again, parental rights end when you send your kids to public school.” Santa Fe Democrats own your children.
If Santa Fe Democrats respected New Mexicans, we would all be in the top ten of the best states in the nation. Instead, they disrespect New Mexicans, and we rank at the bottom of all Americans for life expectancy, health, childhood well-being, poverty, income, and competency in reading, writing, and arithmetic. It is time we call it for everyone to see and hear…
Republicans Will Respect and Stand Up for New Mexicans
Postscript
Our courageous Republican Legislators need help in formally or informally labeling Bills. I can think of no better person to assist our Republicans than Steve McKee. An example was the “rebuttable presumption” bill. The bill’s name did not help rally New Mexicans behind it. However, if the bill had been named the “Remember Jackson Weller,” all New Mexicans would have rallied for the bill. Because Bernalillo DA Torres put Darian Bashir behind bars after the earlier arrest for a gang-related drive-by shooting, Jackson Weller died.