MLG touts bipartisanship with Utah’s Spencer Cox but won’t share Special Session agenda w/ GOP
On the newsmagazine show 60 Minutes (and at Notre Dame recently) Democrat Gov. Lujan Grisham and Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox tout bipartisanship. We certainly agree that rhetoric has become too heated in this country and we wish the parties would work together in support of individual freedom and protecting our constitutional liberties, but it is hard to stomach the idea of MLG as some kind of champion of working together on a bipartisan basis.
Of course this is yet another failure of the national media which clearly knows nothing about New Mexico and doesn’t take the time to do even basic research about what happens here.
For example: Check out this article about the special session of the Legislature which kicks off on Wednesday:
Republican lawmakers, who asked the governor Sept. 15 to share the details of her proposals in black and white, say they still haven’t received the legislative language either.
House Minority Leader Gail Armstrong of Magdalena expressed frustration over being excluded from seeing any legislative drafts ahead of the special session, despite repeated attempts.
“My takeaway is that apparently they don’t give a crap if we’re there or not there,” she said, adding Democrats appear to have the votes to get the measures to the governor’s desk.
From her high-handed approach to COVID, her attempt to overturn the 2nd amendment, and her calling her political opponents “lizard people” MLG’s “bipartisan” track record is uninspiring to say the least.
And then there is competence and success. The media don’t talk about that as much because millions of Americans continue to move from “blue” to “red” states. The difference between Utah (with a growing population, strong, diversified economy, and high performing education system) New Mexico could not contrast more dramatically with MLG’s track record of failure in New Mexico.
I realize the national media has its narrative and they don’t want to let pesky details get in the way of what they are trying to say, but as Paul Harvey would say, “Now you know the rest of the story.”