Crime in Santa Fe (Farmington, Silver City: appointed, violent crime, credit)

[Cathy4017]

NM needs REALLY tough DWI laws.

According to the editorials in the Farmington paper (I'm taking it now, Sunday only), Richardson is working on cracking down.

"You drink, you drive, you lose." How much campaign rhetoric this is, I don't know.

Whether the tougher laws recently passes will have any real effect remains to be seen. I hope so.

[greatdanes]

The DWI laws have been on the books for years and the last Guv, Gary Johnson made a dent.
Under Bill Richardson's last 4 years, deaths are up and it's all campaign talk and sound bites.
Richardson also talks about the "Year of the Child" all the time when he is running for something (Presidental bid comming up), but that is a rip off of Bush's "No Child Left Behind" and just as effective. Bill is a mile wide on his promises and sound bites, but an inch deep on his execution of those promises unless there is money to be made. The $billion dollar rail project (with no known ridership) is proceeding at warp speed, because money will go missing, and costs will overrun and happy days will be here again for some - like those who knew what right-of-ways to buy into. But, teachers won't get decent raises, education money will dry up and the education system never progresses much beyond Mississippi - the bottom benchmark in US educational progress.

[Crackerjack]

Cathy, I wish that was the case, but I know New Mexico and the drinking laws just don't cut it. I have heard that too, the old you drink, you lose bit, but in NM it doesn't mean much. Like Greatdanes said, it is all talk, but little action. Drinking and driving is a terrible blight in New Mexico. It has been that way since at least the 60s, but steadily getting worse. I just wish politicians would really mean what they say.

[Cathy4017]

Greatdanes, Crackerjack, that's just about what I figured.

All talk and little or no action.

Richardson (he is a politician, after all) says all the right things...he's setting up his run in 2008.



As conservative as I am.....and a Republican to boot....Bush is no conservative....and his "No Child Left Behind" is CRAP.

The downside to NM for me is the liberalism, but....

[Towanda]

The liberalism is one of two downsides for me, the other being that it will be harder to see Kansas City Chiefs football and Kansas Jayhawk basketball.

However ... I am a conservative Republican too ... and I plan to GET INVOLVED when I get to NM.

[greatdanes]

For those who really feel the need, New Mexico State Police will issue you a CCW after completion of a fairly extensive training course. NM, I understand, also honors CCW licences from about 20 other states. You can obtain this information from a web site:

PACKING.ORG

CCW's may seem extreme to some of you out there, but they are common enough in most south west state. Some people I know view CCW's as they do their life insurance policy - they never, ever want to have to use these things, but if you ever need the protection, at least it's there.

[Cathy4017]

However ... I am a conservative Republican too ... and I plan to GET INVOLVED when I get to NM.

You and me both.....!!!

Look out, New Mexico.....LOL!!!

[Crackerjack]

Yes Cathy, it seems that is all you get in NM is a lot of talk. I'd like to see them walk the walk. Take Wilson (R) and Madrid (D). They slung mud at each other the whole time and I don't see a winner either way you look at it, they never talked the issues, just who was the worst person. I think politicians who don't have any agendas, sling mud at the other to get people to not notice they don't have any thing to put out there. In NM, you have most people not voting because regardless of the parties, it still is the same old thing. Honestly if I were to say one thing I don't like about NM, it would be politics, right or left, it's a no win situation there.

[greatdanes]

I agree with Crackerjack - most NM politics stinks! All of the 2006 runs were mud baths - beats needing to discuss a "PLAN" for the real problems. I am not Dem or Rupublican, guess I'm a member of the Cynical Party. I vote, bur rarely for someone I trust, usually it come down to 1) the lesser of 2 evils OR 2) throw the bums out and bring in the new bums.
Talk about d@#ing with faint praise, but about the best I can say about NM politics is that at least we aren't Louisiana.
Great to have others to look down on, isn't it, but we won't talk about the other 48 looking down on us.

[Cathy4017]

In NM, you have most people not voting because regardless of the parties, it still is the same old thing. Honestly if I were to say one thing I don't like about NM, it would be politics, right or left, it's a no win situation there.

I was sorely tempted to stay home in TX...I am disgusted with all of them, both Repubs and Dems. Can I ask about Domenici? Has he, as a long-time senator, done much for NM, IYO?

guess I'm a member of the Cynical Party. I vote, bur rarely for someone I trust, usually it come down to 1) the lesser of 2 evils OR 2) throw the bums out and bring in the new bums.

Do I hear that!! I had to hold my nose big-time when I went to vote....but I nearly always vote, nevertheless.