NMTA Purpose: To Support Change in New Mexico and, Thus, It Rarely Will Support Incumbents
NMTA Purpose: To Promote Honesty in Campaigns
The Directors of NMTA find it remarkable that often a voter will cast his ballot for a candidate who has campaigned with fabrication or half-truth, and then will expect that candidate, once elected, to be honest. The directors of NMTA believe that if a candidate is dishonest in his campaign, he likely will be dishonest once elected.
The Directors of NMTA want to help lift New Mexico campaigns out of the gutter. Thus, as to candidates NMTA supports, it expects a pledge which has two components. The first is that the candidate, from the beginning, will assume personal responsible for all advertisements and messages issued by his campaign. The second is that the candidate will allow the use of no fabrication or half truth against his opponent.
NMTA Purpose: To Promote Honesty In Government
NMTA Directors believe that political corruption too long has been a problem in New Mexico. It was a problem here before New Mexico became a State and, in fact, was one of those matters which caused New Mexico’s acceptance as a State to be much delayed.
Following the Civil War and into early statehood, Republicans generally controlled the state. Excessive and continuing power bred arrogance in them and arrogance fostered corruption. Finally, following a series of revelations forthcoming during the Tea Pot Dome Scandal and the three trials in Las Vegas, New Mexico of the founder of the Albuquerque Tribune, Carl Magee, who stood firmly against political corruption and was sanctioned for it, the state’s revulsion against political corruption reached high temper. That fact, coupled with the state’s economic despair as it entered the Great Depression allowed the Democrats to gain control of the state’s legislature. They have kept that control, with two short intermissions, for approximately seventy years.
As evidenced in multiple, recent press reports about corruption, excessive and continuing power now appears to have bred arrogance in many Democrats and that arrogance has fostered what appears to be a stream of corruption.
One of the best ways to reduce political corruption is for there to be divided or alternating control in the state legislature. This circumstance would reduce the level of arrogance in legislators and would enhance the capacity of one party to discover and report to the citizens the sins of the other party.
For this reason NMTA supports the transfer of control of the New Mexico State House to Republican control. Its goal is to help that transfer occur over the next two or three election cycles. Its goal, also, is to get you to help it in this endeavor.
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