NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR (CONT.)
THE LEAGUE ASKED: 1. What qualifies you to be governor?
I am the 3 term first Hispanic woman elected to the Village of Cuba NM. I served 10 years. Upon my departure I left them with almost 2 million in the bank and economic development that still stands to this day. I am the only candidate with executive branch experience. I am currently the executive director for Right to Life Committee of NM serving the pro-life community for a decade. I have been a business owner, school teacher and bank manager for a national bank. I have led teams of thousands of volunteers for the betterment of our state.
I’m an outsider who will always be on the side of hard-working New Mexicans. If political and government experience made for great leaders, we’d have two of the best in Joe Biden and Michelle Lujan Grisham. That’s clearly not the case. New Mexico is an amazing state, but the politicians have let us down. We don’t need more political elites – we need leaders with character and integrity who will listen to people, understand their concerns, and fight tirelessly on their behalf for the change we need. That’s what I will do.
2. What are your three top priorities?
1. End abortion and assisted suicide, restoring dignity to life once again. 2. Revolutionize our education system. Children will once again be taught reading writing and arithmetic and the true history of our country. I will pass an education choice bill. Funding will be tied to the child. I pledge to restore parents’ rights in school. 3. I pledge to make NM safe again by closing the border and providing necessary law enforcement to our cities. We cannot improve our economy or attract great businesses if we don’t respect life, our schools are substandard and we have rampant crime.
My top three priorities are securing the border, fighting crime, and improving our schools. I will secure the border by deploying the National Guard and creating a Border Strike Force to target and disrupt the drug and human trafficking cartels. I will fight crime by ending “catch and release,” supporting our men and women in law enforcement, and ending the current state of lawlessness by putting real teeth in our laws. To improve schools, we will get money directly to the classroom, empower parents, and help catch kids from up the learning losses they suffered from the COVID shutdown.
3. How would you improve the election laws?
I will work with the Secretary of State to conduct a full forensic audit. I will work to have voter ID thus allowing only legal citizens to vote. I want to reinstitute paper ballots.
We need to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. It’s critical that to any democracy citizens have faith in their elections. That’s why I strongly support a Voter ID law that requires voters to show photo identification to cast a ballot. I support early and absentee voting, however I will oppose the practice of automatically sending live ballots to homes without a voter request, as has been proposed by Governor Lujan Grisham. This opens the door to fraud, since 20% of the population moves every election cycle. I will also fight against any effort to legalize ballot-harvesting.
4. What actions if any, should be taken at the state level to reduce our use of fossil fuels?
We are an energy-rich state and fossil fuels are a clean source of energy because they are biodegradable. I intend to increase not decrease the use of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are used in many of our everyday products and as they relate to wind and solar, they are used to make solar panels. Plastics for electric cars are made of fossil fuels. Motors and wind turbines have to have fossil fuels to operate. I will create a research and development team to research how to make wind and solar more sustainable. Currently, they are not and add to the pollution as they are not biodegradable.
I am a strong supporter of our oil and natural gas industry and pursue an “all-of-the-above” energy policy. I support the development of renewable energy and other energy sources, like small modular nuclear reactors. But New Mexico oil and gas must continue to play a key role in our energy economy. The governor passed her own Green New Deal in New Mexico and it’s led to higher energy costs for New Mexicans and now we are being threatened with rolling blackouts this summer. We are far better off drilling for oil in New Mexico than we are importing it from Iran, Russia, or Saudi Arabia.