Political News

Sen. George Munoz

STATE News:

SANTA FE – Gov. Susana Martinez signed March 10 Senate Bill 206, Foster Care System Student Tuition Waiver, sponsored by Sen. George Munoz, D-Cibola, McKinley and San Juan.

The legislation signs into state law that college tuition and fees be waived for certain children who have been in the foster care of the state or in the legal custody of a New Mexico Indian nation, tribe or pueblo or the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Human Services.

“This piece of legislation is very important to the people of New Mexico. Foster children Read More

Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard met with senior citizens at the White Rock Senior Center Thursday. Garcia Richard addressed a variety of topics including her proposals for strengthening repeat DUI offenders, solutions to the Lottery Scholarship’s lack of funding, a constitutional amendment on class size limits for K-3, House Memorials promoting the Manhattan Project National Historic Park and supporting  LANL’s major subcontractors. She secured  $350 million for Los Alamos County  fire mitigation and said the biggest success of this year’s legislative Read More

STATE News:

SANTA FE—Gov. Susana Martinez signed legislation Wednesday to reform and provide additional funding for the Legislative Lottery Scholarship. Martinez used her line-item veto authority to fix a widely reported drafting error in the legislative language that could have kept some students from receiving their tuition on time.

“I’m pleased that a bipartisan solution was reached to protect the Lottery Scholarship for students currently in their spring semesters, and I believe we’ve begun the process of instituting reforms to the Scholarship to ensure that students Read More

Gov. Susana Martinez

STATE News:

RIO RANCHO – Gov. Susana Martinez signed New Mexico’s Fiscal Year 2015 State Budget Tuesday, a bipartisan compromise that enacts several initiatives to increase New Mexico’s healthcare workforce, invests in key job creation efforts, and expands education reform initiatives as a means of getting more education dollars into the classroom to help struggling students and schools. 

As signed, the $6.15 billion budget increases state spending by 4.3 percent over the current fiscal year. Education spending increases by 5.75 percent to a record high of $2.7 Read More

Former Los Alamos County Councilor Vincent P. Chiravalle filed for State Representative District 43 today at the Secretary of State’s Office in Santa Fe. Chiravalle will face fellow Republican Geoff Rodgers in the June 3 Primary Election. The winner of that race will face Democrat Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard in the November General Election. Chiravalle said that he believes in core Republican principles and wants to apply common sense conservative solutions that put state government on the side of our citizens – adding that he has a proven track record of fighting for the needs Read More

Democrat Karyl Ann Armbruster filed for Public Education Commission Dist. 4 today. Armbruster was required to submit 272 Democratic signatures and submitted 388 signatures to qualify for the November ballot. She served 39 years of her professional life in public education, as president of the American Federation of Teachers 2002-2008 and is an active member of the Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation, League of Women Voters and Northern New Mexico Central Labor Council. Courtesy photo Read More

Today, Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard made her re-election campaign official when she filed all appropriate paperwork to qualify for the November ballot. ‘I am excited to submit over 450 signatures of registered voters spanning all four of the counties that create House District 43,’ Garcia Richard said. ‘I have worked tirelessly for the residents of our district and the outpouring of support shown from voters spanning the entire political spectrum, proves just that. I look forward to continuing my service as your Representative and thank you for the opportunity to move Read More