Darkest Week In State Senate- NM Senator Kent Cravens

For Immediate Release Thursday, March 04, 2010 Contact: 505-986-4702 Darkest Week in State Senate Video and Senate Floor quote of State Senator Kent Cravens go to this address on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc20vC68S3w Santa Fe—“Darkest week in the State Senate.” That is how Albuquerque State Senator Kent Cravens described work in the State Senate as he voted once again against raising taxes. “The legislature is spending money the state does not have, on projects the our constituents do not want, “ Senator Cravens said on the Senate floor today. “We are asked to vote on the best bad deal we can get and I say we need to stay here until the state of New Mexico has a good budget that does not raise taxes and a long term plan to run state government with sustainable revenues and expenses based on realistic projections.” Senator Cravens voted against all tax increases and against the state budget because he said it did not sufficiently address spending cuts. “The average New Mexican is hurting, “Senator Cravens said. “New Mexicans expect leadership and all this legislature could come up with is shell- games, smoke and mirrors and band aids. I don’t call that leadership.”