{"id":40108,"date":"2012-05-21T22:12:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T04:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=40108"},"modified":"2012-05-21T22:12:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T04:12:17","slug":"mayor-coss-campaign-is-spreading-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/05\/mayor-coss-campaign-is-spreading-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Coss\u2019 campaign is spreading misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Carl<\/a>

Carl Trujillo<\/p><\/div>\n

My stands on the issues are clear \u2013 they\u2019ve been on my website since the beginning of the LAST campaign in 2010 \u2013 and for Mayor Coss and his campaign to suggest otherwise is dishonest political posturing.<\/h4>\n

I\u2019m Carl Trujillo and, as most of you probably know, I\u2019m running for state representative.<\/p>\n

Over the past few weeks, my opponent, Santa Fe mayor David Coss, and his campaign have spread misinformation and outright lies about who I am and what I stand for.<\/p>\n

My stands on the issues are clear \u2013 they\u2019ve been on my website<\/a> since the beginning of the LAST campaign in 2010 \u2013 and for Mayor Coss and his campaign to suggest otherwise is dishonest political posturing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a Democrat since I was first old enough to vote. And I\u2019m proud to come from a long line of Democrats, because I believe in the values that the Democratic Party has long stood for \u2013 chief among them, fairness, honesty, social justice and inclusivity.<\/p>\n

My opponent and the establishment party insiders who back him have seem to have forgotten those ideals. I haven\u2019t. And I don\u2019t think the people in our community have, either.<\/p>\n

When I got into this race, I expected that it would be a tough campaign, and I welcome that. What\u2019s not okay is my opposition\u2019s dishonesty. Trying to win a campaign through dishonest smear tactics is beneath the dignity of our community. It\u2019s the same tactics used by the Swift Boat Veterans in 2004, or when opponents insinuated that President Obama wasn\u2019t born in the United States and \u201cobviously\u201d has ties to terrorists because his name sounds Muslim.<\/p>\n

Seeking to represent the people<\/h3>\n

The truth is that Mr. Coss and I aren\u2019t that different when it comes to our positions on \u201cthe issues.\u201d What is deeply, fundamentally and profoundly different is how we view the role of a representative. Mayor Coss is a career politician. I\u2019m a citizen candidate.<\/p>\n

That means I\u2019m seeking to represent the people, not govern them. That\u2019s why instead of spending my time arguing with my opponent about \u201cthe issues,\u201d I prefer to invest my time in the community listening to what the people think. Because I believe in a government by the people, for the people.<\/p>\n

And while we\u2019re on the subject, as a Democrat, I believe that \u201cwe the people\u201d means ALL of the people. Black, Hispanic, Native American, or white, gay, straight or bisexual, old or young, male or female, progressive, Democrat, Republican, independent, Green Party, socialist, Libertarian, Tea Party, liberal or conservative \u2013 I welcome everyone\u2019s ideas if they will make our community better.<\/p>\n

To my mind, that\u2019s what being a representative means. That\u2019s what being a\u00a0Democrat means \u2013 being open to new ideas even when we disagree, including every member of our community in the discussion, respecting different points of view, and creating solutions that are based on our shared experience of living in this community together in peace.<\/p>\n

The people I\u2019ve been listening to in our community have all kinds of great ideas for solving the problems we have here in New Mexico \u2013 teachers and students and parents who have innovative ideas for reforming education that deserve a chance to be heard. Leaders in the alternative energy field, both in the community and at LANL, where alternative energy is a particular interest of mine, have some exciting ideas for supporting green, sustainable energy that will uniquely benefit New Mexico. Local business people struggling to keep their doors open who know firsthand what the state could do to help their business so they can hire more people.<\/p>\n

These are the people I seek to represent. \u00a0They are all throughout our community and they are ready to have a voice in the Roundhouse.<\/p>\n

Threatened by a candidate willing to listen to the people<\/h3>\n

So, it\u2019s understandable that Mayor Coss and company would feel the need to lie to win this election. He\u2019s a career politician with a dubious record when it comes to ethics, candor and transparency in government. Also, he\u2019s backed by the political old boy network and their cronies, who are threatened by the idea of a candidate who is willing to listen to the people and not simply vote as he\u2019s told by the special interests and old boy club.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understandable, but that doesn\u2019t make it okay to lie.<\/p>\n

On June 5, we will all have a choice as to who we want speaking for us in the Legislature. I hope and trust that the people in our community would rather have a representative who doesn\u2019t ignore what they think to advance his own personal agenda.<\/p>\n

I believe that the people of our community understand that a politician who is willing to lie about his opponent to win an election is likely a politician who is equally willing to ignore the will of the people once he gets into office. And we all know what it feels like when the people we elect to speak for us vote against the will of the people.<\/p>\n

The invasion of Iraq. Health-care reform. The debt-ceiling debacle. Do we really want more of the same, or do we want something more in line with our deeper values as Democrats?<\/p>\n

Of course, that\u2019s a choice we\u2019ll all have to make for ourselves.<\/p>\n

Trujillo, a Democrat, is a candidate for the District 46 seat in the N.M. House.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My stands on the issues are clear \u2013 they\u2019ve been on my website since the beginning of the LAST campaign in 2010 \u2013 and for Mayor Coss and his campaign to suggest otherwise is dishonest political posturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,16],"tags":[156,107],"class_list":["post-40108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-guest-columns","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40108","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\/2807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}