New Mexico was recently named the worst state in the nation to raise a family. For the career politicians in Santa Fe, this is a PR crisis to be managed with excuses. For me, as a father raising a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old in Rio Rancho, it is a moral failure that demands a total overhaul of our state’s priorities.
We are told that being 50th in education and family income is an “unavoidable reality” of our geography. That is a lie. New Mexico is sitting on record-breaking natural resource wealth and a $30 billion permanent fund. We don’t have a resource problem; we have an accountability problem.
The current administration has grown the state budget by billions, yet our streets are less safe and our schools are falling further behind. My opinion is simple: the “Santa Fe Way” is bankrupting our future…