Our power and resources are at risk.

The power and the resources belong to the people.

We cannot spend our power and resources ourselves.
We are compelled to give over the control over that power and
those resources to government. We have no choice but to
surrender our control over our power and our resources to
"government".

We have a right, and a responsibility, to demand that our
power not be abuse, and that our resources not be wasted or
stolen.

If the government were actually for the people,
our power would not be being abused, and
our resources would not be being wasted and stolen.

We surrendered to our government (the Department of Municipal Development) control over 32M of our dollars and whatever power then needed to spend and protect them.

We had a right to expect them to be protected and spent in our interests.

Instead, they allowed a great deal of it to be wasted and/or stolen, link.

Our power and our resources are at risk.

In the upcoming Special Session, legislators are going to try figure out where they are going to come up with $300M in revenue or spending cuts.

Co-incidentally, 300M is the number of tax dollars that State Auditor Hector Balderas says that he can save for taxpayers, if only, given the power and the resources that he needs to really audit the spending of tax dollars.

Consider the current scandal; it looks as though about $9M has gone missing. Unclear at this point, how much if any was outright stolen; and how much has wasted through incompetence.

If instead of wasting those $9M, what if we give them to the Office of Internal Audit and Investigations? Those are the folks who audited the DMD's (mis)management of the contracts with the Mayor's buddy's nephew's landscaping company.

Except for some questions about the loyalties and priorities of those whose fists pound the table last, here are no questions about whether the auditors themselves will deliver the goods.

So what if we hired 9M dollars worth of honest, capable, impartial, and honest auditors?
How much more money would be saved from corruption and incompetence?

It can be made impossibly difficult to hide corruption and incompetence.

It is not a matter of if it can be done,
it is a matter of, will it be done?


In order to be elected, a candidate for mayor must promise to make it impossibly difficult to hide corruption, incompetence, nepotism, cronyism, ...

Else, we should not vote for them.

Marty Chavez, will you promise
to make it impossibly difficult to
hide corruption, incompetence,
nepotism, cronyism, and ...?








Richard Berry, will you promise
to make it impossibly difficult to
hide corruption, incompetence,
nepotism, cronyism, and ...?








Richard Romero, will you promise
to make it impossibly difficult to
hide corruption, incompetence,
nepotism, cronyism, and ...?








Or else, explain to voters why you will not?




photos Mark Bralley