State Feed: New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM Pro-Red Light Camera Initiative Unique

Staff — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:40:59 -0400

A KOB4 News report reveals that all but $50 supporting a measuer on the Albuquerque ballot came from Redflex, the camera maker who stands to profit if the measure passes. City politicians are defending the company’s actions, while civil rights supporters say the company shouldn’t be taking money from citizens. Retired police sergent Paul Heh asks:

Why do we even have these when we pay police officers to do the same job and your rights aren’t violated?

New Mexico Voters Want Direct Say in Government

Staff — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:43:00 -0400

Yesterday, Citizens in Charge Foundation sent out a joint press release with the Rio Grande Foundation highlighting the poll results of New Mexico voters on their support for initiative & referendum:

Teachers Start Petition for Pension Increase

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:27:18 -0400

New Mexico’s teacher’s union is circulating a petition to protest an increase in their personal pension contributions. Pension contributions increased by 1.5% this year in an attempt to solve state budgetary problems. The union has suggested raising taxes on New Mexico workers to pay for the pension increase.

Read the story from the New Mexico Independent

Legislators say longer House terms save money, time

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:04:15 -0500

Voters would be asked to extend legislators’ terms from two years to four years under a bill that nearly 60 members of the House co-sponsored last week.

The measure raises an issue in perennial discussion over the past decade, with backers saying less-frequent elections would mean less time spent raising money to run for office.

“It would take half the money out of it,” said Rep. Hugh Holliman, a Lexington Democrat and the House majority leader. “We start the session, spend our first year here, and then we spend the whole second year campaigning.”