More about Coss and Trujillo

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House District 46 candidates David Coss and Carl Trujillo on jobs and education, and a list of endorsements in the race:

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Jobs

Trujillo:

  • Support alternative/renewal energy jobs
  • Promote statewide “buy local” campaign on all goods and services
  • Reduce bureaucracy, cost and permitting process for environmental and sustainable energy companies that do business in New Mexico

Coss:

  • Replicate the City of Santa Fe’s “green collar jobs” program, which trains young people for high-wage jobs
  • Defend the minimum wage
  • Support affordable-housing programs
  • Close tax loopholes that benefit out-of-state corporations and hurt local small businesses
  • Upgrade roads and infrastructure to create good-paying jobs
  • Support initiatives that encourage use of green energy and energy efficiency by subsidizing interest rates for homeowners so homeowners can finance renewable energy systems for their homes at affordable rates

Education

Coss:

  • Restore the education formula
  • Support efforts to reduce class sizes so children can have more attention from teachers
  • Expand full-day kindergarten, preschool and after-school programs
  • Use early childhood education to help every child start 1st grade ready to learn
  • Provide job-skills training and education to young people not pursuing a four-year degree
  • Funding ideas: Support Sen. Peter Wirth’s proposal to require out-of-state corporations to pay fair share of taxes, increase percentage of Land Grant Permanent Fund that goes to education and discontinue tax reduction for people who earn high incomes

Trujillo:

  • Support smaller class size before 2nd grade and/or invest in after-school literacy programs (give teachers necessary tools to get job done)
  • Invest in pre-kindergarten programs for all students (income-driven programs encourage social separation)
  • Explore subsidizing child care at schools for teachers
  • Provide electronically fed college coursework from local colleges in public high schools (keep the students engaged in learning)
  • Funding ideas: Restore funding to levels from three years ago

Endorsements

Coss:

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján; American Federation of Government Employees, Local 4041; AFSCME New Mexico Council 18; Conservation Voters New Mexico (CVNM); CWA Local 7076; Green Fire Times; IATSE Local 480; International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 953; Iron Workers, Local 495; LIUNA, Local 16; National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, DS 1199 NM, Executive Board; NEA – New Mexico; New Mexico Building and Construction Trades Council; New Mexico Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; New Mexico Home Builders Association; Operating Engineers, Local 953; Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 412; Pojoaque Tribal Council; Sheet Metal Workers, Local 49; Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club; University Professional and Technical Employees, CWA Local 9119; United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1564

Trujillo:

“Our campaign is a listening-based citizen campaign, and as such, we don’t seek endorsements (which are really more geared towards professional career politicians).

“We do publish citizen endorsements from our supporters and you can see some of these at www.CarlTrujillo.com.” – Statement by Carl Trujillo

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