{"id":39740,"date":"2012-05-11T07:04:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=39740"},"modified":"2012-05-21T06:30:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T12:30:24","slug":"more-about-coss-and-trujillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/05\/more-about-coss-and-trujillo\/","title":{"rendered":"More about Coss and Trujillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House District 46 candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidforstaterep.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Coss<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carltrujillo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Trujillo<\/a> on jobs and education, and a list of endorsements in the race:<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Jobs<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Trujillo:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support alternative\/renewal energy jobs<\/li>\n<li>Promote statewide \u201cbuy local\u201d campaign on all goods and services<\/li>\n<li>Reduce bureaucracy, cost and permitting process for environmental and sustainable energy companies that do business in New Mexico<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Coss:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replicate the City of Santa Fe\u2019s \u201cgreen collar jobs\u201d program, which trains young people for high-wage jobs<\/li>\n<li>Defend the minimum wage<\/li>\n<li>Support affordable-housing programs<\/li>\n<li>Close tax loopholes that benefit out-of-state corporations and hurt local small businesses<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade roads and infrastructure to create good-paying jobs<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Coss:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Restore the education formula<\/li>\n<li>Support efforts to reduce class sizes so children can have more attention from teachers<\/li>\n<li>Expand full-day kindergarten, preschool and after-school programs<\/li>\n<li>Use early childhood education to help every child start 1st grade ready to learn<\/li>\n<li>Provide job-skills training and education to young people not pursuing a four-year degree<\/li>\n<li>Funding ideas: Support Sen. Peter Wirth\u2019s 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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Trujillo:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support smaller class size before 2nd grade and\/or invest in after-school literacy programs (give teachers necessary tools to get job done)<\/li>\n<li>Invest in pre-kindergarten programs for all students (income-driven programs encourage social separation)<\/li>\n<li>Explore subsidizing child care at schools for teachers<\/li>\n<li>Provide electronically fed college coursework from local colleges in public high schools (keep the students engaged in learning)<\/li>\n<li>Funding ideas: Restore funding to levels from three years ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Endorsements<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Coss:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n; 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 \u2013 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<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Trujillo:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur campaign is a listening-based citizen campaign, and as such, we don\u2019t seek endorsements (which are really more geared towards professional career politicians).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do publish citizen endorsements from our supporters and you can see some of these at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carltrujillo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.CarlTrujillo.com<\/a>.\u201d <strong>&#8211;\u00a0<em>Statement by Carl Trujillo<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Return to the main article about the Coss-Trujillo race by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/05\/govt-experience-an-issue-in-race-between-coss-trujillo\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House District 46 candidates David Coss and Carl Trujillo on jobs and education, and a list of endorsements in the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[156,118,125,107],"class_list":["post-39740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-election","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39740","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\/2777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}