Grandiose House Republican Centennial Plan Falls Flat On Jobs

Nothing more than wedge issues and failed policies

Immediate Release Contact: Scott Forrester

January 24, 2012 505-934-5681

Albuquerque, NM - Today House Republicans announced their "Centennial Plan" for New Mexicans. But somehow they managed to almost completely overlooked what we think is the number one issue for all New Mexicans today and, presumably, well into the future: JOBS.

The following is a statement from DPNM Executive Director Scott Forrester on the House Republicans grandiose plan for the next 100 years:

"This is just a repackaging of the same old tired ideas that New Mexicans have been rejecting for years. No one is fooled by more of the same, and no one is looking forward to 100 more years of a GOP establishment that is more focused on politics and wedge issues than policy and progress.

And to barely even mention jobs, particularly in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, is more than just bad policy. It's shockingly bad political strategy.

What the House Republicans presented today is nothing more than a partisan laundry list of policies that have failed on both a national and a local level. They aren't even giving their usual lip service to job creation, and according to their own document they don't even plan on getting started until 2013. New Mexicans need action now.

By comparison, yesterday Senate Democrats presented an 11-point H.I.R.E. Comprehensive Jobs Package that will address every sector of New Mexico's economy, and within the next few days the House Democrats will be introducing a comprehensive legislative agenda. Democrats in both houses of the Legislature are focused on the priorities of the people of New Mexico. "

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