RGF on the road/post mortem on ABQ City Council victory

This post will be a  lot less policy oriented than normal. That’s because as the head of RGF, this week has been VERY busy. It started with a HUGE win at ABQ City Council on Monday night when on a 5-4 vote Council (again) rejected a major tax increase. The vote was 5-4 against raising taxes with conservative Councilors Lewis, Champine, and Grout being joined by progressives Fiebelkorn and Telles to kill the tax hike scheme and NOT put it on the ballot.

Many news reports have covered this victory, but what is truly noteworthy is that for the first time I can remember opponents of the tax increase massively outnumbered supporters. RGF has been working closely with the revitalized Americans for Prosperity chapter (click to find out more or sign up with them). RGF has helped train their volunteers on how to participate in Council meetings and the AFP team has been highly effective at getting them organized to the point that the vast majority of comments at Council were against the tax hike. We cannot be more excited to have such effective grassroots partners and especially wish to call out Bobbi Curtis with AFP for her work in helping to organize activists to defeat the tax hike.

Unfortunately, we were unable to post much information about this huge victory, because the morning AFTER the meeting RGF’s president hit the road for series of events in Roswell, Artesia, Carlsbad, and Clovis over the span of the next few days. It has been a busy (and hot) few days but it is always good to see the great people of SE New Mexico and see where the State’s money comes from (Lea and Eddy Counties). It has been a very busy (and productive) road trip.