Journal editors hope for reform in Santa Fe

In one of their most strongly worded and articulate editorials
to date, link, the editors have expressed their hope that 2009
is the year that our representatives in Santa Fe finally do
what voters want them to do with respect to governmental reform.

The editors pointed out that they had hoped for reform in 2005.
And that they had hoped again for reform in 2006.
And that they had hoped even harder for reform in 2007.
And that they had hoped even harder still for reform in 2008.

And for all of their hoping, still no reform.

Not ones to give up on a winning game plan, Journal editors
are hoping harder than ever for reform in 2009.

If only "hoping" had a snowball's chance in hell of actually
bringing about ethical reform in NM's culture of corruption.


The Journal editors have the wherewithal to get a thousand
people to stand together on the roundhouse steps
to demand meaningful reform.

And if that doesn't work, they have the wherewithal to get two
thousand people the next weekend, and four thousand the next,
and eight thousand the next, and ...

Instead, they will hope really, really, really hard, for reform
this year.


Good luck.