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Neighbors,

This summer brings some exciting events and goings on in our community. I wanted to take a moment share some of the details with you.

Long Term Neighborhood Planning
Our communities are going through an extensive long term planning process, one for the International District (Councilor Garduno area) and the East Central Gateway (Councilor Harris area). This is a critical process that will determine how funds are spent in our neighborhoods and our input is welcome:

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Already looking forward to the next great Sunday afternoon at Blue Jeans Lounge, open mic blues and cook your own bbq, ever summer sunday! Legendary East Central Dist 17 locale.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/bluejeans-lounge-restaurant-albuquerque

Like most legislators, I am not proud of the fact that we were unable to finalize the budget during the 30-day session. Our budget is top priority and I am confident that we will be able to balance it during the upcoming special session.

However, the 30-day session was not a complete loss. There were some important issues that I am grateful we did address. Our state faces an urgent need for restructure in the areas of “double dipping,” investment funds, education, domestic violence, stalled cap… Continue

Around 1AM Sunday morning I voted� against the food tax and the budget, just felt the budget could have been much more equitable for working families and the food tax would have disproportionally hurt my district, which unfortunately has little fresh food outlets.

The Food tax was the only tax that made it to the senate floor, making it the only opportunity we have had all session to discuss tax policy in general.�� Several tax concepts came up and�I believe it demonstrated the need for the Sen… Continue

What is State Investment Fund Reform?

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Almost 10 years ago, our country was coping with a series of corporate accountability crises in the wake of Enron, World Com and other breakdowns in organizational governance. Widespread public outcry led to responses through our legal system and in Congress.�Hundreds of lawsuits in and effort to retrieve squandered funds and lawmakers responded by passing the Sarbanes Oxley act.�The time for New Mexico to pass similar legislation is now.

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