Javier Martinez: Trump could learn from New Mexico?

The Albuquerque Journal recently had an article about the impending return of Trump to the White House. The interviewed numerous New Mexico politicians including Speaker Javier Martinez. Needless to say there is going to be a lot of back-and-forth between Trump’s Republican Administration and New Mexico’s left wing politicians.

But what REALLY stuck with me is the following quote from Speaker Martinez:

The hubris of a politician who has a real position of power in a State that is last in education, highest in poverty, has one of the highest crime rates, and is almost entirely dependent economically on a combination of oil and gas and federal spending takes “cajones” to say the least. New Mexico is blessed in many ways: weather, vistas, natural resources, and cultures (to name a few), but governance is most definitely where New Mexico is weakest (and among the weakest in the nation). In fact Wallethub places New Mexico 3rd-worst in return on investment despite the fact that our tax burdens are kept (relatively) low thanks to the aforementioned oil and gas revenues.

Perhaps Speaker Martinez and the rest of New Mexico’s Democrats should go to Washington to meet and learn from Trump? The following images are from the annual Kids Count report of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.