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22 years USAF experience: honed negotiating skills working with Pentagon and allies. As a corporate trainer, I'm a professional speaker and writer, so ability to express myself and dig deep into bills is comfortable. Experience at Roundhouse attending and speaking at committee meetings. Have written several op-eds that were published in ABQJ on subject of Second Amendment. USAF experience taught me how to build coalitions and small teams to accomplish whatever mission we were assigned.
Crime, as well as the border crisis, is top of everyone's mind. The criminal results we experience every day is caused by a string of intentional events, which means only focusing on one initiative, such as, "Hire more cops" will only have limited impact. We need to revisit the poorly thought-out 2016 Bail Reform, which was an initiator to this crisis; in addition, we need to look at returning qualified immunity, police recruiting/retention, incarceration facilities, and how judges operate.
Water availability is both a driver and limit on NM economic and population growth, and is always a concern in the southwest. I need to study this further, particularly the details of water management in NM (in other states, it's byzantine), as well as impacts of water agreements including the Colorado River Compact and the Governor's 50-year water plan. Plenty of us desire an economically robust NM, but the essential limiting factor is: do we have enough water? If not, can we obtain it?
Please see my "top priority" response above. In addition, Albuquerque city leaders have been accused of failing to enforce "petty" offenses such as vagrancy and trespassing. I believe in the philosophy of "broken windows policing" as applied by NYPD in the 1980s. And so I want to investigate if the legislature can write a law that would compel mayors and police chiefs to enforce a very limited set of "petty crimes" that are considered gateways to larger crimes. Let's get to the root.
Affordable housing is driven by several variables. First is supply and demand: the less the supply, the higher prices go. So, "building more" is the response. Second are mortgage rates and wages, which are a result of economic policy: inflation driven by bad policy has priced out too many young New Mexicans. Third are property taxes, which are set by municipalities and the state. It's not cosmic: build more, tax less (slash government spending), and encourage broad economic growth.
Given its vast natural resources, NM should be the "Saudi Arabia of the United States;" yet while NM is rich, our people are poor. We're too dependent upon oil and gas and federal spending, and need to follow growth models proven by AZ and TX for 40 years. Step one is reducing or eliminating personal income taxes. Step two is providing businesses large and small economic reasons to relocate or organically build here. This includes reforming GRT and offering big incentives for entrepreneurship.
Yes. Not having a salary dissuades younger New Mexicans from serving. As it is, NM legislators tend to be older, and, certainly, wealthier. We need more and different voices who are more representative of their communities, and not outliers on the hill. That said, I'd like to see governor and legislators' salaries tied to a metric that represents the general prosperity of all New Mexicans: if we do well, politicians do well; if we do poorly, their pay is automatically reduced.
