Last week, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called for the state Legislature to convene for a special session for what she claimed is for COVID-19 pandemic relief. A later press release from the Governor’s office lists multiple items she wants to be passed during the special session, including $194 million in direct unemployment assistance, $100 million in grants to small businesses, $15 million in emergency housing assistance, $5 million for “emergency food bank services,” a “$5 million for direct economic assistance to low-income residents, in the form of a one-time $750 disbursement per household, who did not receive an “economic impact payment” from the federal government,” and funding for the implementation of these initiatives.
Now, no one is against pandemic relief for hurting New Mexicans, but the $300 million Gov. Lujan Grisham claims will come from federal CARES Act money appears to be too little too late. Why is this money just now used to help suffering New Mexicans? And where did the other $1 billion appropriated by the federal government go?
Due to the Governor’s multiple and sporadic shutdowns, which have decimated communities and closed countless New Mexico businesses, not to mention infringing on constitutional rights, it’s no wonder New Mexicans desperately need relief. If businesses were allowed to safely open (while following CDC guidelines as applicable), there would be no need for more relief to hurting businesses because they could remain open. There would be no need for unemployment assistance since employers’ places of businesses would not be shuttered, and there would be no need for housing assistance because people would be able to keep their jobs and pay their rent with their paychecks from their employers (who are allowed to remain open).
The problems the Governor is trying to fix with a special session could have all been negated if she did not twice force the closure of our state, resulting in New Mexico being the most restrictive state in the union. The federal government did its part in providing pandemic relief through the CARES Act, but the states were responsible for disseminating funding to those most affected.
President Trump revolutionized the production of ventilators, personal protective equipment, vaccines, and other supplies necessary to fight the virus and provided each state with the tools required to combat the deadly COVID-19. Despite packing it full of pork, Congress passed the CARES Act — helping hurting Americans get through the pandemic with relief checks and other funds.
Like other states that are now doing well, both in health and economic strength, Gov. Lujan Grisham should have used the tools provided her by the White House and Congress to shepherd New Mexico through the pandemic.
However, during her time as governor, Lujan Grisham has scolded New Mexicans, targeted those not following her strict health orders with fines, and locked down businesses time and time again. During the Legislature’s first special session, she vetoed $318 million in federal dollars meant to help Native American tribes and local governments while keeping funding in the budget for her pie-in-the-sky $320 million socialist free daycare program.
Instead of trusting the people of New Mexico with the responsibility of utilizing all the help available and working as a community to stop the virus, she forced people into complete and total lockdown, resulting in people standing in lines for hours to buy groceries, families separated during the holidays, and countless businesses either fleeing to other states or closing for good, leaving economic devastation.
The Governor’s failure to govern during this pandemic shows her ineptitude as a leader, with a desire to accomplish her partisan games with a special session rather than trust the people of New Mexico to work as a community to stop COVID-19. But now, if a Republican member of the New Mexico House or Senate dares question Lujan Grisham’s late-in-the-game COVID-19 package, Radical Democrats led by Speaker Brian Egolf and the rabidly left-wing legislators will brand dissenters as opposing helping New Mexicans with relief before the Holidays.
Unfortunately, it’s the Democrats–led by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham–who have deprived New Mexicans of security and freedom ahead of the Holidays because they have sat on $300 million in federal relief while New Mexicans stood in bread lines, lost their jobs, lost loved ones due to the virus or suicide due to the lockdowns, and have been separated due to cruel restrictions.
Shame on the Governor for putting politics above people during this pandemic, and shame on her supporters who have wilfully and ignorantly given up their rights to a power-hungry tyrant, hell-bent on forging her own political career instead of helping the people of the Great State of New Mexico.
NUFF said…..she has got to go…..we do not need a tyrant like this in our state….
What’s the point of having people wait in long lines outside big box stores? People waiting outside are bunched together, not observing social distancing. I thought the point was not to have people together in close proximity. Please explain, Gov.
This scamdemic continues due to medical fraud. The PCR tests have been amplified up to show 90%false positives. Kary Mullis the nobel prize winner for creating the test made it to examine rna particles. IT IS NOT FOR DIAGNOSTIC USE.
Zerohedge has an article from a former pfizer chief officer Dr Mike Yeadon who explains the pcr test and how it works. It is not a pregnancy test and can not and does not give positive and negative results. He also has a website called lockdown skeptics dot org with more info. The health dept knows this is willfully committing fraud and destroying our economy to usher in the great reset which includes green new deal, ubi, and other horrible things, like no private property. We must share this info and end these crimes against humanity.
Why would anyone submit to a test when they have no idea what it does or how it works? Why would anyone want an injection that tags you with microdot technology and changes your dna? Do you know these injections are frozen in storage at -70* celsius? That is not normal. My people perish for lack of knowledge…
Stop choosing ignorance and apathy and take a stand now before you will not be allowed to.
Dr Michael Yeadon says many important things, which are available on zerohedge under “pandemic is over” what many scientists know and are sharing but being censored. He says we already have T cell immunity since this is one of many corona particulates.
The infectious diseases society of America explains the details of the PCR. “Anyone still presuming that a Positive PCR test is showing a COVID case needs to read this very carefully:
Even 25 cycles of amplification, 70% of “positives” are not “cases.” virus cannot be cultured. it’s dead.
by 35: 97% non-clinical. The US runs at 40, 32X the amplification of 35. PCR tests look for RNA. there is too little in your swab. so they amplify it using a primer based heating and annealing process. Each cycle of this process doubles the material the US (and much of the world) is using a 40 Ct (cycle threshold). so, 40 doublings, 1 trillion X amplification. This is absurdly high.
The way that we know this is by running this test, seeing the Ct to find the RNA, and then using the same sample to try to culture virus.
If you cannot culture the virus, then the virus is “dead.” it’s inert. if it cannot replicate, it cannot infect you or others. it’s just traces of virus, remnants, fragments etc
PCR is not testing for disease, it’s testing for a specific RNA pattern and this is the key pivot. When you crank it up to 25, 70% of the positive results are not really “positives” in any clinical sense.
i hesitate to call it a “false positive” because it’s really not. it did find RNA, but that RNA is not clinically relevant. It cannot make you or anyone else sick.”
Thank you!!
The sooner that squatter is dragged out of the roundhouse the better off New Mexico will be!!
This story is a typical government scenario; the government creates the problem, a not too well informed public pleads their “representatives” for relief, and finally, the government attempts (all too often successfully) to take credit for the “solution” and the relief. It is also interesting that all of the money being proposed to be allocated by this special session is money provided to New Mexico at the expense of the United States federal taxpayer. Perhaps we should send a Thank You note to the other 49 states for their help
It will be hard to drag her out unless we get rid of the voting machines! What is being done to get rid of them?
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Evil always tries to play the savior after they first destroy the lives of many. This is very deceptive.