New Mexico’s most far-left “progressives” on June 8 sent an “interesting” letter to President Biden in support of his Administration’s anti-energy policies. The letter largely disregards the profoundly negative impacts Biden’s permit moratorium is having on New Mexico in terms of lost jobs and revenues (impacts publicly acknowledged by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham).
Notably, these elected Democrats are acting counter to their OWN STATE as well as THEIR OWN Gov. and legislative leaders. Also the letter linked above is illogical .
The letter states the legislators’ support for the Biden Administration’s moratorium on oil and gas leases and calls for a “transition” away from oil and gas. So, naturally in the next paragraph it argues for raising taxes on oil and gas through a royalty increase. All of this is of course for the supposed benefit of “the children” who they say are receiving inadequate revenues from the very oil and gas they support Biden by “keeping it in the ground.”
Notably, more Democrats DID not sign the letter (24 signed, but 46 of them DID not), so support for the Biden Administration’s moratorium remains a MINORITY position even among New Mexico’s increasingly-progressive Democrats. Shots fired.
It’s always about the money.
Paul,
There is no logic in progressive politics. Only platitudes. What did you expect?
Thanks,
Matt
In the graphic, although Independents are listed as having two in the state house, and there is also one vacant seat, these three seats are all shown as being Democrat-held seats; i.e., there are 24 red dots for Republican-held seats, which is correct, but 46 blue dots (instead of 43) for Democrat-held seats, and no dots for either Independent-held seats or vacant seats. Whoever created the graphic needs to correct it.