Solutions to Real Challenges
We’ve all seen many of these challenges facing our cities and county. It’s more than calling attention to these issues. Instead, Judy believes real solutions and actions are necessary to overcome them. Moreover, it’s important to hold the vision of success and prosperity at the forefront of our minds. Let’s not kick these proverbial “cans” down the road for the next administration anymore. Rather, let’s come together and take common sense actions that will make our communities prosper, and deliver a safer and brighter future to our children. We deserve it and so do they. Please take a look at what it takes to make this happen and how you can help.
We want our families and visitors to enjoy walking, playing, gathering under our beautiful New Mexico sky and our almost 300 days per year of sunshine. Imagine strolling on Central Avenue, old Route 66, stopping into boutiques, cafes, and parks, with no encampments, trash, boarded up storefronts, or barbed wire fencing.
What Can Judy Do?
She will support neighborhood associations, local businesses, and residents who want to reclaim and improve their space.
She will work to ensure that zoning rules are fair and are enforced.
We need to feel safe in our neighborhoods, streets, and homes. The hallmark of a vibrant community is the ability to live in freedom and without fear. When safety is ensured, our streets are lively, businesses thrive, there is a sense of excitement and creativity. People gather in parks, outdoor markets, shops, and restaurants. Our local economy flourishes.
We all prosper when we are confident that our streets are secure. Currently, the people of District 5 feel that crime is a major problem.
Our status as a sanctuary city and the lack of attention to the real causes of homelessness have intensified the plight of both residents and homeless.
What Can Judy Do?
She has worked with our county sheriffs and knows that the problem of crime CAN be solved. She will encourage the sheriffs to resume the traffic and drug patrols they conducted in the past, which resulted in taking criminals off the streets.
She will draw on the experience and knowledge garnered from her work with the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation.
She talked with homeless citizens in the streets of Albuquerque. She performed hundreds of evaluations and helped the mentally ill homeless population get the treatment they needed. Her compassionate approach is detailed in the “Homeless Campus Model,” which she presented to the Albuquerque Homeless Task Force.
She will promote neighborhood integrity and provide common sense and humane solutions to the problems posed by the homeless and transient populations we now see on our streets.
As County Commissioner, she will push against “safe spaces” and fight to retract Albuquerque’s status as a sanctuary city.
We admire and encourage the spirit of entrepreneurship, which we can see in every corner of our district. We fear, however, that it is being discouraged by current policies. The heart of every community is its small, local businesses. We have everything we need right here to have a flourishing economy, but our small businesses face difficulties: confusing regulations, heavy taxation, arbitrary restrictions, and lack of protection against theft and vandalism.
What Can Judy Do?
She will do everything she can to get red tape and government out of the way, so that business owners are able to run their shops as they see fit.
She will advocate for increased responsiveness and accountability on the part of law enforcement in their duty to protect businesses.
She will push back on predatory taxes.
She will never agree to policies that penalize our hard-working, honest citizens.
Small contractors must know that they have a fair chance when they bid for county work.
Our residents who work for local or state government agencies must be confident that their Constitutional rights will be protected, just as the rights of our private sector workers are protected.
Everyone in District 5 must be considered equal under the law.
What Can Judy Do?
She will never put any citizen above the law or grant favors that will enrich one at the expense of another.
She will be vigilant in ensuring that every constituent is treated justly and that there is opportunity for all.
She will reward merit, not self interest.
The spectacular rolling hills of the Eastern part of the county, sloping downward from the crest of the Sandia Mountains to the Estancia Basin, are home to historic villages, farms, ranches, small independent businesses, cute shops and restaurants, industrial establishments, and tourist attractions.
Residents of this “sky island” rising from arid lands have unique concerns. There are urgent needs to ensure water availability, to proactively protect our magnificent forests against the menace of wildfire, to provide proper and timely road improvement and maintenance, and to guard the stewards of the land from Big Government overreach, be it in the form of onerous taxation or the misguided Federal “30 X 30 Land Grab.”
What Can Judy do?
Judy has visited with people in the East Mountains and listened to the problems they face. She has ridden down your rutted roads! The problems, like the roads, can be fixed. She will support the extraordinary work accomplished in the last five decades by the folks involved in the water systems by enlisting the County’s partnership in efforts to increase the capacity of water storage, fire hydrants, and water lagoons. She will advocate for the creation of County programs to encourage residents to connect to an existing water system when feasible to avoid a plethora of wells being drilled. She will remain open and responsive to your concerns.
