{"id":19096,"date":"2010-07-02T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=19096"},"modified":"2010-07-20T08:04:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:04:11","slug":"guv-responds-to-candidates%e2%80%99-views-on-film-incentives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/07\/guv-responds-to-candidates%e2%80%99-views-on-film-incentives\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv responds to candidates\u2019 views on film incentives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14075\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14075\" title=\"Richardson, Bill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Richardson-Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Richardson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A day after both candidates seeking to replace him commented publicly on the state\u2019s film incentive program, Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\">Bill Richardson<\/a> wants to clarify a few points.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the statement I received today from Eric Witt, the governor\u2019s advisor on film and media industries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are pleased that both gubernatorial candidates recognize the success of the film industry in New Mexico and its growing importance to a broad spectrum of our economy. Two points of clarification should be made regarding the post. First, the current administration has been entirely consistent regarding data on the economic impact and job growth attributable to the state\u2019s film industry. Rather, it is a group of critics of the film industry who do not and cannot seem to offer consistent or even supportable empirical evidence of the industry\u2019s effect to back their critiques; they\u2019re all over the place in terms of \u201cdata,\u201d which is not surprising given that their opposition is largely political in nature, and not reflective of the actual underlying economics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecond, other commonly cited so-called \u201cstudies\u201d of the state\u2019s film industry are fundamentally incomparable to the Ernst &amp; Young study in terms of scope, methodology, and applicability to New Mexico\u2019s specific (and unique) incentive structure. I laid this out in a recent piece published in the Albuquerque Journal, which can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/biz\/1441727biz06-14-10.htm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for the opportunity to clarify these important distinctions as the campaign season moves forward.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the gubernatorial candidates\u2019 thoughts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/07\/turning-the-discussion-to-substantive-issues\/\">here<\/a>. For more on the debate about the film incentives, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/film-incentives-are-a-serious-public-policy-problem\/\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/film-incentives-need-to-be-investigated-not-repealed\/\">here<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/setting-the-record-straight-on-nms-film-incentives\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after both candidates seeking to replace him commented on the state\u2019s film incentive program, Gov. Bill Richardson wants to clarify a few points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,112,183,107],"class_list":["post-19096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-bill-richardson","tag-issues","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}