Las Cruces legislator cites budget, jobs crisis for why he’s running for governor.
We’ve had 27,000 people leave the state during this administration.
We passed corporate tax cuts [in 2013] which I opposed.
Too often we find if we attract with incentives one year, another state offers better ones the next year.
[The state Legislature] authorizes $50 million a year in [Local Economic Development Act] money.
How would you approach K-12 education differently from the current administration?
One of the first things I would do as governor is offer the same opportunity to every student in every school in the state.
An active governor would be on the phone and sitting down with the governor of Texas and the other states involved to try to find the best resolution to the lawsuit.
Historically, New Mexico has been a territory with scarce water and has learned to work with less.
I asked judges what we can do to better address crime and they overwhelmingly say they’re overburdened with cases on possessions of small amounts of marijuana Those cases bog down a court system.