View From the Backside

Dillys & Dough Heads (The views expressed in this column are not necessarily the views of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association or this publication.) H ere we are once again in an election year. The Democrat Party seems to be going to the far left in a big way. The funny thing is though, that most of America is pretty centrist, however the far left is being steered by the big media.

One thing about it, if you listen to any broadcasts by NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and many times FOX, you will notice they are all promoting the far left agenda. If television and newspapers are the only place that you get your news then you may wind up believing them, if you are not intelligent enough to think for yourself.

The far left zealots tell you straight up that they want to take your guns away and double your taxes, but people are stupid enough to vote for them anyway. I guess they think the whole world will be holding hands and singing Kumbaya when that happens.

I notice the leading presidential candidate advocates free health care, education, and housing for all. Just who is going to pay for those platitudes? Probably, anyone that works for a living and earns a wage.

The funny thing is that we already do that for way too many people in this country. What would be the point of living in America? If every service is free then it will contain no quality.

Look at health care in the United Kingdom where they wait three years to get a knee repaired and you can get one repaired in the US next week. Have you noticed how many Canadians there are in the Southwest in the winter time? Yes, many are here for the sunshine, but just as many are here to take advantage of our health care which they have to pay for.

One thing that we Americans should all know is that “free” diminishes value and quality. I was astonished that the most communist candidate won the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire. Isn’t it sad that people are so willing to give up their hard won freedom so easily. Freedom that so many fought and died for.

“I unironically embrace the bashing of rural Americans. They, as a group, are bad people who have made bad life decisions…. and we should shame people who aren’t pro-city.” This is a quote from UC Berkeley instructor Jackson Kernion. Mr. Kernion has taught at least 11 philosophy courses at the California University. Isn’t it hard to believe that this man is paid by rural tax dollars? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Mr. Kernion also went on to say that rural Americans should be paying higher health care costs and more in taxes, and be forced to live an “uncomfortable” life for rejecting, “efficient” city life.

I tried to find out if we are still paying this nutty professor, but I have gotten several different answers, so at this point in time, I do not know what is true.

One thing that is quite obvious to me is that the far left will use any cause or excuse to seize power. They are not really concerned about the environment, your health, or coal miners that do not get paid enough. All these causes are just ways to empower themselves, so they can force people to live as they tell them. They are truly out to destroy your freedom and rural way of life. Something else that is a threat to our way of life according to “Law Enforcement Today”: Prepare For Iran Sleeper Cells To Attack Rural America. Mr. Art Del Cueto, the President of the Arizona Border Patrol Union said, “We need to take securing our borders very serious. With the huge rise in individuals claiming asylum, we truthfully don’t know enough about those individuals past, much less their true intentions. Drug cartels are the ones that control our southern borders and they do not care about human lives, it’s all about the money.” He went on to point out, “They would have no problem making deals with terrorist organizations to ensure safe passage into our country.”

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rancher Fred Davis went and testified before Congress about these very problems. Why do we have so many do nothing politicians?

Remember Robert Krentz’s murder? Remember Senator John McCain grandstanding and still nothing was fixed? Talk about dough heads? When are we going to fix this folks?

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NM AG Staff Member Is Privately Funded by Bloomberg Climate Change Affiliate Posted to Politics October 31, 2019 by Hiram Reisner A member of New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas’ legal staff has been paid with private money from a group financed by Bloomberg Philanthropies to promote a climate change agenda in the state. The attorney, Robert F. Lundin, worked on the state’s climate and energy policy and is part of a national effort by a Bloomberg-funded climate activist organization to get ideologically motivated attorneys inside state offices.

Lundin’s status was revealed in a report by the Bloomberg-funded State Energy & Environmental Impact Center (SEEIC) at NYU Law. The report was acquired through an open-records request by Power the Future, a pro-energy industry group, which calls itself the voice of energy workers and opposes “radical green groups and the ideologues that support them.”

The report shows Lundin, one of New Mexico’s special assistant attorneys general, was involved in revising the state’s energy policy and outlines “the contribution the legal fellow made to the clean energy, climate change, and environmental initiatives of the [AG OFFICE].”

Lundin provided legislative analysis for the state’s Energy Transition Act, according to the report. The ETA imposes a “zero-carbon” electricity standard on public utilities by 2045. The law also sets renewable energy targets, including 50 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2040.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the ETA — also known as the “mini-Green New Deal” — in March, 2019. “Mr. Lundin began work on November 5, 2018, and he was assigned primarily to public utility matters in relation to administrative litigation at the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission,” according to the report. “The Office prioritizes environmental protection, fighting for renewable energy, and promoting the labor force in New Mexico so that the State may become a leader in renewable energy development

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“One of Mr. Lundin’s primary tasks during the early months of 2019 was to objectively analyze legislation proposed in the 2019 New Mexico Legislative session,” the fourpage report says. “Mr. Lundin reviewed and analyzed a draft version of the bill before it was introduced to the legislature. He reviewed and monitored the progress of two proposed community solar bills during the legislative session.”

The report also says Lundin had a hand in attempts to end coal as a New Mexico energy source.

“Mr. Lundin was involved in the on-going process to shut down San Juan Generating Station — a large, coal-fired power plant in New Mexico,” according to the report. “He and lead counsel discussed legal strategy with many stakeholders to determine a course of action in regards to initiating a proceeding to retire the plant.

“The [Public Regulation] Commission then, following the strategy … ordered the public utility to abandon the coal plant.”

The purpose of the SEEIC, created in August of 2017 with an initial grant of $6 million from the Bloomberg Philanthropies, is to promote a climate-change agenda by providing state attorneys general with paid legal staff. The report on Lundin apparently shows for the first time the modus operandi of the impact center — “allowing rich individuals like Michael Bloomberg to create prosecutorial power with the force of government,” according to Western States Director for Power the Future Larry Behrens. According to a June editorial in the Wall Street Journal, “as of 2018 at least seven states and the District of Columbia had adopted this money-for-policy scheme.”

In the executive summary of a separate public report released in September, the SEEIC laid out its mission:

“As their states’ chief legal officers, attorneys general play a major role in clearing the path for increased clean energy in the electricity sector,” according to the executive summary. “State attorneys general have a critical role to play in ensuring that their states’ clean energy laws and policies are implemented on a timely and effective basis, and without inappropriate interference by the federal government or other parties.”

Behrens called paying assistant attorneys general to influence New Mexico’s energy policy “outrageous.”

“This is an out of state billionaire paying salaries of people who are influencing policy in New Mexico,” Behrens told Inside

Sources. “We believe that the policy harms jobs of New Mexicans and raises electric rates. So we believe New Mexicans should know about the connection from out-ofstate radical environmentalists and how they are impacting their lives.

“If the roles were reversed, if there were — let’s say — a large oil company or a large coal company paying to have someone on the staff of the attorney general’s office or the New Mexico environmental department there would be outrage,” Behrens said. Matt Baca, Balderas’ spokesman, said the special assistant attorneys general answer to the state, not the Bloombergfunded center in New York City.

“New Mexico attorney general employees are not supervised, directed, or controlled by NYU or the State Impact Center,” Baca told InsideSources. “The attorney general’s office only represents the people of New Mexico, from maximizing trust royalties from oil and gas revenue for school children to ensuring that indigenous communities are protected from further environmental pollution.”

However, Balderas has previously been quoted as saying his office “would work with the NYU Law Fellow to identify ‘pressure points’ on which litigation can be used to most effectively influence policy.” Identifying pressure points, critics argue, is a political partnership that raises questions about private money in a state agency.

Similar arrangements have come under fire in Massachusetts and Oregon, and in Virginia the legislature blocked the arrangement, arguing that it violated state law.

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Torres Small Joins House Agriculture Committee C ongresswoman Xochitl Torres Small (NM-02) announced her appointment to the House Agriculture Committee on February 28, 2020.

“I came to Congress to fight for New Mexican values and protect our rural way of life. I am proud to report that I will be continuing that fight as the newest Member of the House Agriculture Committee. With over 10,000 farms and $1.6 billion in agriculture revenue, New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional district is the agricultural engine of our state. Over the past year I’ve had the privilege to meet with farmers, ranchers, dairy producers, and all who work with them to discuss our shared challenges and opportunities, and I am ready to champion their priorities on the Agriculture Committee,” said Torres Small.

Torres Small announced her intention to the fill the Committee vacancy during a visit to New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES). On February 20, 2020, Torres Small hosted a brief press conference with representatives of New Mexico’s thriving agriculture industry to highlight the industry’s importance to the future of the Second Congressional District. Torres Small was joined by: Ї Secretary Jeff Witte, New Mexico Department of Agriculture Ї Tiffany Rivera, New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau Ї Shacey Sullivan, New Mexico Farm Credit & co-chair of Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference Ї Greg Daviet, owner of Dixie Ranch Pecan Farm In addition to support from local stakeholders, Torres Small received broad support within the Democratic Caucus— including from many Congressional Hispanic Caucus members, Blue Dogs, and New Democrats coalitions.

Congresswoman Torres Small’s appointment to the House Agriculture Committee is effective immediately, in addition to her continued service on the House Homeland Security and the House Armed Services Committees.

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