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Better Choices NM Urges Gov. Richardson to Line-Item Veto Agency Cuts, Protect Education & Medicaid
Better Choices New Mexico (BCNM) announced in a statement released today that the group sent a letter to Governor Bill Richardson last week asking him to take swift yet strategic action as he addresses legislation passed during the recent special... Full Article at Democracy for New Mexico
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There is nothing more important than our children, their education and their future ... Education is the greatest form of long-term economic development. I find it unconscionable that so many in the state Senate want to compromise New Mexico’s future by further challenging our already financially strain...
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We’d only have a quarter for the new money, which does nothing for backfilling 2009 and making up the deficit in 2010 ... It potentially gets us going for something in 2011, but it does nothing for the immediate problem that we’re facing.
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Under no uncertain terms does our senate or our senators want to cut education or hurt our future and the education of our children
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It's true that the economy is currently shrinking. But that's the result of a slump in private spending. It makes no sense to add to the problem by cutting public spending, too.
