Rep. Stansbury is delusional and apparently in the wrong office

Rep. Melanie Stansbury recently gave a talk to the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. It was covered in the Albuquerque Journal. Stansbury seems to be both delusional AND clueless at the same time. For starters, check out the following quote from the article: “What happens is we tend to have an economic development opportunity that happens in New Mexico … and because we haven’t invested in the long-term pipeline from pre-K all the way through higher ed for our workforce, we have to look outside of New Mexico for those skilled workers.”

New Mexico has taxpayer-funded pre-K, childcare, has dramatically increased spending on K-12 (despite declining enrollment, and has “free” college. What more does she want?

Stansbury then calls out New Mexico’s infrastructure which is a fair point, but she then goes on to “caution against the strategy of bringing large companies to rural areas to spur economic growth, citing a lack of water and basic infrastructure. Her comments come as a data center, Project Jupiter, is being constructed in Santa Teresa, a small town in Doña Ana County.

“We are going to have to build industries that rely on water in places where water exists in the state, and we should not be building industries in places where there is not water.” Well, the fact is there IS the water. If New Mexico’s leaders were smart (Democrats all like Stansbury) we would be “investing in infrastructure” to treat that water and using it for a variety of economic development purposes.

Finally, for someone in Congress who also broadly shares the philosophy of a Governor who has been in office for 8 years, Stansbury sure seems like she has some big problems with New Mexico’s leadership. She also seems to yearn to be back in the Legislature or (more likely) run for Governor.