SO WOLF PAC IS A NONPARTISAN GROUP AS YOU ALL KNOW THAT IS
FIGHTING TO GET FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS.
FROM TIME TO TIME I
TELL YOU ABOUT A RESOLUTION IN DIFFERENT STATES, NOW WE GO TO
NEW MEXICO.
THEY HAD SPONSORS INTRODUCE SJR 12, I WILL TELL
YOU ABOUT THE SPONSORS IN A SECOND, I DON'T WANT YOU TO LOSE
FAITH IN POLITICS OR POLITICIANS, BECAUSE AT THE
LOCAL LEVEL THERE ARE SOME WONDERFUL POLITICIANS WHO I
THINK COULD BE OUR NEW FOUNDING FATHERS AND BRING DEMOCRACY
BACK.
AND YES, FROM TIME TO TIME THERE ARE SETBACKS IN THAT, AND
FROM TIME TO TIME, AS IN THIS CASE, THERE WAS SIGNIFICANT
LOBBYING AGAINST THIS RESOLUTION FROM THE LEFT AND FROM THE
RIGHT, AND EXTREME PARTS OF BOTH ENDS OF THE SPECTRUM DON'T WANT
ANY OF THIS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THEY THINK, NO, MONEY AND
POLITICS IS AWESOME.
ELECTION REFORM?
WE DON'T NEED ELECTION
REFORM, THIS IS WORKING OUT PERFECTLY.
REALLY?
DOES ANYONE
ELSE BELIEVE THAT?
NO ACTUAL CITIZEN BELIEVES THAT.
SO WHEN
THESE VOTES HAPPEN CITIZENS SHOW UP AND ARE ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY ON
OUR SIDE.
THEY DID IN THIS CASE, AND IN BOTH THE SENATE AND THE
HOUSE, DEPENDING ON WHICH STATE YOU ARE IN, WE HAVE TO GET OUT
OF COMMITTEE AND THERE ARE FOUR VOTES.
LET ME TELL YOU WHAT
HAPPENED IN THE FIRST STEP IN NEW MEXICO, WOLF PAC IS OPPOSED
BY THESE LOBBYISTS WHO FIGHT TO AND NAIL, THIS RESOLUTION,
GHOSTLY SENATE COMMITTEE VOTE, AND THE RESULT IS UNANIMOUS --
10 REPRESENTATIVES, SENATORS IN THIS CASE, VOTE YES, NONE VOTE
NO.
THEY ALL VOTE FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS.
SEVEN DEMOCRATS,
THREE REPUBLICANS.
WHEN WE SAY NONPARTISAN, WE MEAN IT.
THERE
ARE SOME GREAT DEMOCRATS, GREAT REPUBLICANS, AT THE STATE LEVEL.
LET ME SHOW YOU SOME OF THOSE GUYS.
OUR SPONSOR IS SENATOR
GERALD ORTIZ Y PINO, I LOVE WHAT HE SAID, HE SAID SOME OF THE
TESTIMONY HE HEARD THAT DAY FROM REAL CITIZENS IN NEW MEXICO
ACTUALLY BROUGHT A TEAR TO HIS EYE, HE SAID IT WAS THE BEST
HEARING HE HAD EVER SEEN, AND AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE
TO SUPPORT THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION FROM WOLF PAC WAS A
MOTHER, RESEARCH SCIENTIST, A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, AN
ECONOMICS MAJOR IN COLLEGE, A CFO OVER PRIVATE CORPORATION, AN
ARTIST, A VETERAN OF THE U.S. ARMY -- YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS,
BY THE WAY?
THAT'S AMERICA, AMERICA SHOWED UP AT THAT SENATE
COMMITTEE HEARING.
THE GUY IN COLLEGE DROVE FIVE HOURS ONE WAY
TO MAKE SURE HE WAS AT THE HEARING, THAT IS CALLED
DEMOCRACY.
I'M GOING TO GET TO SOME VIDEO FROM SOME OF THESE
GREAT SENATORS IN A SECOND TOO, AND THEN I WANT TO TELL YOU
ABOUT SENATOR MARK MOORES, A REPUBLICAN FROM NEW MEXICO, HE
ALSO VOTED YES ON THIS LEGISLATION, BECAUSE REPUBLICANS
ALSO CARE ABOUT DEMOCRACY AND ALSO CARE ABOUT FREE AND FAIR
ELECTIONS.
AND SENATOR DANIEL IVEY-SOTO, I WILL SHOW YOU A
CLIP FROM HIM IN A SECOND, HE MADE A GREAT SPEECH IN REGARDS
TO THIS AS WELL.
JUST BECAUSE YOU MADE IT OUT OF ONE COMMITTEE
DOESN'T MEAN YOU MADE IT, WE'VE GOT THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IN
NEW MEXICO, THEN A FLOOR VOTE IN THE SENATE, COMMITTEE HEARINGS
IN THE HOUSE, FLOOR VOTES IN THE HOUSE -- I KNOW NO OTHER NEWS
ORGANIZATION TALKS ABOUT THESE THINGS BUT THEY ARE THE HEART OF
OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM, IF YOU WANT TO GET CHANGE THIS IS HOW,
YOU HAVE TO SHOW UP AND FIGHT FOR IT BECAUSE THE LOBBYISTS ARE
THERE EVERY SINGLE DAY.
IN THIS CASE, EMAIL ALISON@WOLF-PAC.COM,
IF YOU ARE A CITIZEN OF NEW MEXICO, GET IN THIS BATTLE, THEY
NEED YOU.
THIS IS ABOUT HALF THE GROUP THAT SHOWED UP TO THE
COMMITTEE HEARING, THE OTHER HALF HAD TO RUSH TO WORK BECAUSE
THEY ARE REAL AMERICAN CITIZENS, AND SO ARE THESE GUYS, SOME OF
THEM TOOK OFF FROM WORK OR SCHOOL, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO
WHATEVER YOU CAN, AND RIGHT THERE YOU ARE LOOKING AT
AMERICA.
THEY FOUGHT HARD FOR THIS, THEY'VE BEGUN TO WIN IN
NEW MEXICO, I BELIEVE WE CAN GO ALL THE WAY IN NEW MEXICO AND
MAKE IT STATE NUMBER SIX TO ASK FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS AND
GET AN AMENDMENT IN THAT REGARD.
LET ME SHOW YOU SOME SENATORS,
HERE IS IVEY-SOTO, AND WHY HE VOTED YES FOR THE RESOLUTION.
>>MY DEVOTION TO POLICY, MY DEVOTION TO HAVING BEEN THE
STATE ELECTION DIRECTOR, MY DEVOTION TO MAKING SURE WE GET
THINGS RIGHT, IS BASED ON MY APPRECIATION OF THE FACT THAT WE
LIVE IN A SOCIETY WHERE WE ARE NOT ONLY PERMITTED, BUT TO SOME
DEGREE WE SHOULD ALL BE ENCOURAGED, TO CHALLENGE OUR
GOVERNMENT.
WE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO TO STAND UP AND
SAY WE DISAGREE.
AND WE SHOULD NEVER BE FEARFUL OF DOING IT.
>>AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL WHEN YOU HEAR FROM REPUBLICANS AND
DEMOCRATS THAT PROTESTING THEM IS A TERRIBLE IDEA AND THEY
DON'T EVEN REALLY BELIEVE YOU IF YOU SHOW UP AT A TOWN HALL
EVENT, TO SEE AT THE STATE LEVEL POLITICIANS THAT ACTUALLY
REPRESENT THEIR VOTERS IS AMAZING AND WONDERFUL.
LET'S GO
TO A REPUBLICAN WHO DOES LIFE WISE, CLIFF PURDLE, HE VOTED YES
AS WELL.
>>TO ME, THAT IS HOW THEY ENVISIONED OUR GOVERNMENT,
BOTTOM UP, AND UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE BECOME TOP DOWN.
AND THE
GENTLEMAN IN THE BACK, I THINK HIS TESTIMONY WAS GREAT ALONG
WITH THE YOUNG MAN IN THE FRONT HERE, THAT IS WHERE A LOT OF THE
PEOPLE ARE FEELING DISCONNECTED, THAT THE ELECTIONS ARE BEING
BOUGHT AS OPPOSED TO FREE AND FAIR.
>>COULDN'T AGREE MORE.
AND FINALLY SENATOR JACOB CANDELARIA
BASICALLY SAYING IF YOU DON'T THINK SPECIAL INTERESTS ARE
A PROBLEM YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION.
>>ANYONE WHO THINGS MAKE MONEY DOESN'T HAVE A CORROSIVE AND
THREATENING EFFECT ON GOVERNMENT EITHER IS NOT PAYING ATTENTION
OR IS WILLFULLY IGNORANT.
THROUGHOUT MY FIRST TERM I
SPONSORED A FEW PIECES OF LEGISLATION I FELT STRONGLY
ABOUT THAT WERE GOOD FOR THIS STATE AND FOR BUSINESSES IN THIS
STATE AND OUR STATE'S ECONOMY AND A POWERFUL SPECIAL INTEREST
GROUP ON MY SIDE OF THE AISLE TRIED TO FIND A PRIMARY OPPONENT
AGAINST ME AND FUND THEM AND TAKE ME OUT OF MY SEAT, THAT'S
JUST REALITY, BECAUSE THEY DISAGREED WITH THE STANCE I
TOOK.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF WHAT
DEMOCRACY SHOULD LOOK LIKE, THAT IF YOU HAVE A BIG ENOUGH
CHECKBOOK YOU CAN BULLY AND THREATEN ELECTED
REPRESENTATIVES INTO VOTING A CERTAIN WAY.
>>I LOVE IT.
REAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PARTY THEY ARE FROM.
LINDA LOPEZ WAS
ANOTHER GREAT SENATOR WHO SPOKE OUT AND VOTED FOR FREE AND FAIR
ELECTIONS.
BUT DON'T BE UNDER THE ILLUSION THIS IS EASY, JUST
BECAUSE THIS VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS.
THERE IS A LONG WAY TO GO IN NEW
MEXICO, AND THE LOBBYISTS WILL NOT REDOUBLE THEIR EFFORTS.
SO I
NEED YOU TO REDOUBLE YOUR EFFORTS.
IF YOU ARE IN NEW
MEXICO, GET IN THE FIGHT RIGHT NOW.
THIS WILL GET DECIDED IN
THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, WE DON'T HAVE A LONG TIMELINE.
WE NEED
ALL THOSE VOTES TO GET DONE IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
IF ANYONE
CAN DO THAT IT IS WOLF PAC, THEY'VE DONE IT IN FIVE OTHER
STATES, THEY SHOW YOU HOW TO JOIN THEM, GET IN THE FIGHT.
DO
IT RIGHT NOW.