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Albuquerque Tea Party —
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Why Vote in the School
Board Election: An
overview of APS, the
election, and candidates. p2
Why We Should Abolish
the Federal Reserve
System and How to Do It:
A brief history and a link to
the the complete article. p5
State Patriot Action Team
Sets Its Agenda for 2011:
An introduction to the State
Action Team Park Parties. p6
Eye on the Valencia
County Commission: About
their actions. p7
Valencia County
Commission Public
Comments: What the people
are saying in Valencia County.
p8
Letters to the Editor: p9
Freedom is Not Free: p10
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The 2011 New Mexico Legislative
Session began on January 18th with
the swearing in of our elected
Representatives followed by the
election of Representative Ben Lujan
as the Speaker of the House. We
elected eight new conservative
members and the House now has 36
Democrats, 33 Republicans, and 1
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has information on all of the
legislative activities.
The Albuquerque Public School
(APS) Board of Education elections
are over Tuesday, February 1.
Everyone that lives in the APS
Districts 1, 2, and 4 can vote for a
board candidate. The next article
(p2-4) contains information about
APS and the candidates.
The ATP and the Concerned
Citizens for APS Reform have
compiled a Candidate Comparison
Guide to inform voters. This guide
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issue2number1/VotersGuide.pdf.
Additional voting information is
included at the bottom of this page.
There is also a CNM Bond Issue.
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against the new $70,000,000 bond
issue. New Mexico is number one in
higher education funding and we
clearly do not have the best
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Why Vote in School Board
Elections?
The budget of the Albuquerque Public Schools
(APS) is about $1.27 billion and consists of
operational and capital funds. This budget is an
important portion of the entire New Mexico state
budget and how that
money is allocated
significantly impacts every
taxpayer in New Mexico.
The School Board makes
policy on how the budget
is spent. The last
opportunity to vote in this
years School Board
Elections for Districts 1, 2,
a n d 4 i s Tu e s d a y,
February 1, 2011.
They were called
special interest groups,
but now seem to be
referred to as “Stakeholders”. Some recognized
Stakeholders in APS are students, their parents,
teachers, and teachers unions. Taxpayers are
commonly not recognized as Stakeholders and
yet we are strongly impacted by APS
expenditures. Candidates for Albuquerque School
Board pay attention to groups (Stakeholders) that
pay attention to what is happening in APS.
Historically that has been teacher's unions,
teachers, and, to a lesser extent, parents.
Usually these groups have to be organized
enough to impact an election before candidates
listen to them.
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Taxpayers and particularly conservative
taxpayers have not been well organized enough
to be much of a factor in School Board Elections.
These elections are held at a time that many
taxpayers are not paying attention and
consequently the teacher's and other public
sector unions have a disproportionate influence
on these elections. If
taxpayers want to be
taken seriously in the APS
elections, then they must
vote and be organized
enough to vote for those
candidates that reflect
their views.
Albuquerque
Public School
Board of
Education
Information about the APS
Board of Education can be found at the website:
http://www.aps.edu/about-us/board
Board members put in many long hours without
direct pay serving the community of Albuquerque.
Existing and previous Board Members are civic-
minded individuals and are usually motivated by
altruistic reasons. Although there is no question
that their intentions are good, their effectiveness
in being part of the process that produces
students able to compete well on both the nation
and international level might be questioned.
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By many measurements New Mexico Schools
do not do well. Although Census Information
indicates New Mexico ranks about 24th in per
student expenditures, we rank in the bottom ten
percent (the best we do is a tie for 46th in the
nation) in having students that are at or above
proficient in reading and math.
Winston Brooks,
APS Superintendent
Some educators question the validity of these
measurements, but seem to be unable or at least
reluctant to supply a measurement whereby we
can compare New Mexico's ranking and
effectiveness in educating our children to other
states. In other words, these measurements are
what are available and we don't do well compared
with other states.
Taxpayers in New Mexico don't seem to be
getting their money's worth. Given how much is
already spent per student, the argument that
spending more money will produce a better
education for our children doesn't seem to be
valid. The following links to a pdf file that contains
education tables from the Census Bureau.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/11statab/
educ.pdf
Districts Holding Elections
Three School Districts are electing School
Board Members and you can only vote for a
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candidate if you live in the same district as the
candidate.
District 1: Seat is currently held by Dolores
Griego the Board Secretary. District 1 contains
Rio Grande High School and Washington, Ernie
Pyle, Harrison and Polk Middle Schools.
District 2: Seat is currently held by Robert
Lucero who is not running for re-election. District
2 contains West Mesa High School and Monroe,
LBJ, John Adams, Jimmy Carter, and Truman
Middle Schools.
District 4: Seat is currently held by Martin
Esquivel who is the Board President. It contains
Highland High School and Cleveland, McKinley,
Jefferson, and Wilson Middle Schools.
APS Candidates
The Albuquerque Tea Party (ATP) does not
endorse individual candidates running for public
office. A goal of the ATP is to educate the public
about the views of candidates, not to endorse
individual candidates. Although individuals that
belong to the ATP can work for individual
candidates, they do not do so as representatives
of the ATP.
Although I am the ATP Local Action Team
Leader covering the Albuquerque School Board,
this reflects my personal views and not the views
of the ATP. Some of the information presented
here has been gathered from other individuals not
named for privacy reasons.
This information only covers what I consider to
be viable conservative candidates running for the
Albuquerque Public School Board and some of
their more serious opponents. For a list of all
candidates running for Albuquerque School Board
positions see the January 18th, 19th and 20th
(Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) 2011
editions of the Albuquerque Journal. Again, this
reflects my personal views of School Board
Candidates and does not reflect the views of the
Albuquerque Tea Party. Many of the candidates
not specifically mentioned here are good people
that are not discussed in this description of
conservative candidates for reasons of brevity.
Again, for a complete description of candidates
see the Journal articles.
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APS Candidate Districts endorsement of four unions and advertises on the

progressive website:
District 1: http://www.democracyfornewmexico.com/
The consensus of conservative groups that I democracy_for_new_mexico/2011/01/1-8-dwbc-
have been in contact with is that Clara Peña is the aps-school-board-candidate-forum-at-unm-law-
best conservative candidate. Dolores Griego is school.html
the incumbent in this If the conservative vote is
race, but her handling of split, then Mr. Sanchez is
the Rio Grande High the likely beneficiary.
School scheduling
problems may have cost District 4:
her some support. The incumbent in this
race is Martin Esquivel.
District 2: This race presents a
The incumbent, Robert problem, because there
Lucero, is not running in is no clearly conservative
this election. Two viable candidate. Mr. Esquivel
conservative candidates is able to work with
are in District 2; existing Board Members.
Katherine Korte and He recused himself in a
Greg Snyder. Mr. Snyder recent vote on suing the
is well-spoken and conservative. He is supported State of New Mexico to obtain increased funding
by the Republican Party, but has no children at for the school district, because his law firm could
APS. While he will be a valuable conservative be involved with the case. Mr. Esquivel has
candidate in future races, my opinion is that he children in APS and I believe that is his motivation
may not be ready for this race. Ms. Korte is for seeking another term on the School Board.
conservative, has children that My personal concern is that Mr.
go to APS, and is very active in Esquivel seems to have
her community including the accepted the poor performance
Parent-Teacher's Association by APS. The other potentially
(PTA). Ms. Korte has been viable candidate is Charles
endorsed by Parents for Quality (Ched) MacQuigg.
Education and Concerned
Suggested candidates that
Citizens for APS Reform
reflect conservative values are
(CCAPSR). CCAPSR has
as follows:
several Tea Party supporters
that support Ms. Korte. My District 1: Clara Peña
personal favorite in this race is District 2: Katherine Korte
Ms. Korte and my bias shows in District 4: Ched MacQuigg or
how I'm describing these two Martin Esquivel
candidates.
Cole Smith
The main opposition in this
race seems to be from Peter
Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez seems to
be well-funded. I've heard
Mr. Sanchez speak twice. In Ellen Bernstein,
one meeting he appeared to President
be a conservative, but he has Albuquerque Teachers Federation
apparently obtained the

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Why We Should Abolish the upper hand. The Conservativeʼs plan should be
to abolish the Fed as soon as possible.
Federal Reserve System and Congress created the Fed they can abolish it.
How To Do It This would place the creation of money and credit
back into the hands of the Congress. The U.S.
America has tried creeping socialism and Constitution says the Congress shall, “coin money
incremental inflation for 98 years. It does not and regulate the value thereof”. Federal, state
work. It has converted the United States of and private debt are the most pressing problems
America from the largest in the U.S. today. If the Fed
creditor nation in the world is abolished and the
to the largest debtor nation inflation of U.S. currency is
in history. No other nation to be stopped the U.S. will
has ever turned economic need to go back to gold and
success into debt-ridden silver money. Under the
failure on this order of free market there will be
magnitude in this short of enough gold and silver to
time. back the money.
In 1913, under U.S. The U.S. owns 2 billion
President Woodrow Wilson, ounces of silver and 250
the U.S. Congress million ounces of gold. By
abdicated their issuing gold and silver
constitutional mandate to backed money the U.S. will have adequate
“coin money and regulate the value thereof”. With backing for their currency. When the Fed
the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 the power, not to becomes history their fiat money will disappear
coin money, but to print money was handed over with them.
to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal
Reserve System, “The Fed”, is neither federal nor In 1913 the Fed and the Congress formed a
reserve but a private corporation, incorporated in cartel whereby the U.S. Treasury Bonds are used
the state of Delaware, that has successfully by the Fed to create fiat money. Each
resisted every attempt at audit by members of the government bond adds to the U.S. debt, which is
Congress of the United $14 trillion; state debt is $2
States. Karl Marx, in the trillion; private debt is $15
Communist Manifesto, trillion and stock derivative
made a central bank and debt $30 trillion. This totals
the graduated income tax to $61 trillion. These debts
two planks in the are unsustainable. There is
Communist Platform. Since no coherent plan to repay
1913 the U. S has both. them. The U.S. economy is
on the verge of collapse. If
The Federal Reserve the U.S. economy
System is an extension of collapses that will push the
the people who offer U.S. U.S. into the “New World
socialism (government Order”, which is a socialist,
control of the economy). global government directed
These people are called progressives. The Fed by world bankers. This will be the end of freedom
and the Progressives have a plan to socialize the in the U.S.
U.S. Those who believe the U.S. should be under
a rule of law (the Constitution) are called Access the complete article at:
Conservatives. As long as the Fed creates the http://atppat.com/localexposure/issue2number1/
money in the U.S. the Progressives will have the AbolishTheFed.pdf

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State Patriot Action Team Sets Park Party schedule will require 20 volunteers.
With four teams, each team would only have to
Its Agenda for 2011 put on one event per month for six months.
The Albuquerque State PAT has set its agenda In addition to this long term goal, the State PAT
for 2011. The long term focus will be on will undertake several short term projects:
increasing participation in the Tea Party through 1. Promoting the APS School Board Election on
the use of Park Parties: weekly weekend picnics February 1 through Roving Rallies.
in parks around
2. Tracking activity at the
Albuquerque for 25
Legislature starting
weeks starting in
January 18 and
mid-May. To make
participating in the January
these successful, we
18 rally at the Round
want to distribute
House.
“palm cards” to
people within three 3. Encouraging
blocks surrounding conservative candidates to
the park of the week run for election to the
about three days Albuquerque City Council
prior to the party to next fall.
invite people to the 4. Starting late in 2011 to
event. The party analyze what State-level
would be managed positions will be up for
by 3-5 people and election in 2012.
would last for People interested in participating with the State
approximately two hours. We would talk with Political Action Team can call Rick Harbaugh at
guests, pass out literature about the Tea Party, 505-268-4731 or email us at:
register new participants in the Tea Party, and
collect donations. getactive@abqteaparty.com
Ideally, we would have four teams of 5 people State Action Team
to distribute the invitations to neighborhoods and
administer the event on the next Saturday. The

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Eye on the Valencia County Commission
Valencia County Commission
December 1, 2010
This was the initial run on the new meeting time
schedule. The meeting started promptly at 0930
with all commissioners in attendance. The
meeting was well attended in spite of the new
time. After all the agenda shuffle, we went by the
original agenda I sent you all to begin with so the
item numbers will match that agenda.
Item 5a: Ron Marcus and another fellow, whoʼs
name I did not catch, presented information on
the upcoming Belen School District bond issue for
the Feb. 1 election. In one ballot question they
are seeking an extension of the present 2.0 mil
levy which generates about $1 million a year
which is used for building maintenance, computer
equipment, and purchasing activity vehicles for
extracurricular activities. In the second ballot
question they are seeking to issue general
obligation bonds in the amount of $23,750,000.
The amount includes building renovations or
improvements but also $8 million for a swimming
pool at the high school and $4 million for
technology, safety, security and miscellaneous.
These bonds are supposed be replacing
outstanding bonds that are being retired and
therefore will not affect taxes. They handed out
some brochures containing the details so if you
are interested contact the district and get one.
505-966-1000.
Item 5b: Shirley Valdez was not present and
Eric gave a summary. Shirley came in later and
gave more detail. HB54,
http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/_session.aspx?
chamber=H&legtype=B&legno=54&year=11
is a bill just introduced in the legislature as part
of massive government restructuring proposals.
This one combines a number of functions into the
Department of Public Safety and would include
the E911 system. Shirleyʼs concern is that if that
happens DPS will do some fund sweeping and
take away the local E911 funds that we just
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approved in the Nov. election. She wants the
commission to pass a resolution in opposition to
HB54.
Item 5c: Paul Vuchetich and Ed Rivera
complemented county employees for their
generous donations to United Way. I think he
said it was around $14,000. Because VC is part
of the Central NM United Way, there are no
administrative fees deducted because it is a
“Corporate Cornerstone” organization where
businesses pay all the overhead expenses.
Item 5d: Eric covered a number of topics. A
few of the most significant are the following:
He has been working with the Middle Rio
Grande Council of Governments on getting rail
road signals at 3 crossings to create more quiet
zones. Apparently about $600,000 is available
but the costs may have ballooned to over a
couple million so more planning will have to be
done.
The LL corridor study is moving along but now
US Fish and Wildlife has gotten into the act with
some concerns on some of the crossings. The
Silvery Minnow will swim free while all the
commuters are jammed like sardines on SH6!
There was a metro area animal control meeting
where it was proposed to go to a “no kill” model
based on the Colorado model. A new facility
would be built to serve the metro area. It looks
like there is a chance this may go forward.
There will be a workshop to review the county
audit. Apparently there are no major problems
but there are a number of persistent smaller
problems that need to be worked out. There will
also be a workshop to review the budget.
The NM Finance Authority has told VC that our
finances are sound enough that we can borrow
the funds to build the new admin building that was
rejected in Nov. Paper work has started and this
issue will be coming up in future meetings.
Jim Crawford
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Valencia County Commission

Public Comment
December 1, 2010
This was the maiden voyage for this new
system. My view was that it went very well.
Bob Gosticha was first up. He supported the
Conejos improvement proposal and pushed for
getting on with the mandatory trash pickup. He
said he could only support the new administration
building if the site was firmly chosen in advance.
He did not want to see another big hassle over
site like with the hospital.
I was next and supported the recent retreat and
the new time. I again pushed for improvements to
the web site with better contact information and
information about agenda items. My full
comments are attached. (None of the others had
material I could attach).
Mike Wood commented that any plans for an
administration building must include space for the
DAʼs office so we can stop paying the huge rent
we are now paying. He complimented the
commission on this meeting but did bring up the
crowding issue again and Eric said they were
going to remove the railing which should be done
by next meeting.
Sue Moran wanted to make sure that road
viewers as just appointed include any home
owner associations that include the area in their
deliberations. She also wanted to know if the
mandatory trash ordinance is still in effect. It is.
Melissa Martinez and David Lucero were last.
They said they are green industry people that are
promoting technology developed in Israel with
financing from Mexico to recycle trash. They claim
that on a 20 acre site they can 100% recycle all
trash. There is no separating and it is all dumped
into one place and the process separates and
processes everything. All the material gets sold as
bio gas, fertilizer, recycled metal, plastic, paper,
etc. They would use the bio gas to generate
electricity to put into the grid. Present haulers
would just back their compactor trucks up and
dump them into their facility instead of going to
the land fill. They said their facility would cost
around $200 million with $1million in planning
costs. This would all be paid by the Mexican
investor and there would be no costs to the
county above what is already being spent. Ron
suggested they get all the municipalities in the
county and the commission together for a detailed
presentation.

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Letters to the Editor
Insight
In the early 1960ʼs I was very fortunate to be
able to sit in on several lectures given by a
gentleman who was teaching a course entitled
“Communication in Agriculture” at New Mexico A
& M.
Over a period of time, we became friends and
he told me that he had been a ghost writer for
Harry Truman. It had been obvious to me for a
long time that he was far above the run of the mill
college professor, but I had not known that he had
such impressive credentials.
One day during a conversation about how to
evaluate political speeches, he told me that every
successful speech had the following premise:
“Always present facts as emotions and
present emotions as facts.”
I did not forget his information although I did
not always use it until the other day, while
listening to Mr. Obamaʼs speech in Tucson.
In my opinion, Obamaʼs speech was almost a
pure recital of the professorʼs instructions. The
speech was a recitation of presenting facts as
emotions and emotions as facts. It was designed
purely to reverse the public perception of
Obamaʼs ineptitude, and based upon current
polls, it seems to have been at least partly
successful.
Hope For a Dramatic Change
January heralded a dramatic change in New
Mexico. For the first time in my 30 years in New
Mexico, the state government has substantial
conservative representation. New Mexico has a
chance to stop or roll back policies that are
bankrupting our state financially and ethically.
This chance is due to voters, many of them Tea
Party supporters, who elected conservative
representatives. Not enough to attain a majority,
but enough to affect legislation by making
coalitions within the state legislature.
One such legislative coalition emerged before
the start of the session to defeat Representative
Ben Lujan's bid to retain the powerful House
Speaker position. The House Speaker largely
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controls the legislative agenda, assigns
representatives to committees, appoints
committee chairs, assigns offices, and even
parking spaces. The compromise for conservative
Republicans was to support a different liberal
Democrat.
The Albuquerque Tea Party joined other New
Mexico Tea Parties in a knee-jerk reaction to
issue a decree that any legislative coalition with
progressives would not be supported. The
underlying implication was that retribution would
be taken on any legislator who participated in
such a coalition. Whether due to the pressure
from the Tea Parties or failure to get adequate
concessions, the legislative coalition deal
evaporated.
On the opening day of the current legislative
session Tea Party executives collectively pounded
their chests and strutted on the Round House
steps boasting of their “victory”. And what for the
Tea Party supporters—the real power behind the
Tea Party movement? Another two years of
Speaker Lujan, his ability to effect legislation by
appointing hard-line progressive colleagues to
committee chairs, and to protect his son's position
in Congress during the redistricting process.
The onus is now on Governor Martinez to rein
in progressive legislative excesses. The hope is
that New Mexico Tea Parties will support her by
focusing on key conservative issues and
legislation rather than process.
Disappointed Tea Party Supported
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