Good Sunday

We stayed busy today. First was getting up early to read the Albuquerque Journal profiles on my opponent and me. I felt the story was evenly balanced and certainly pointed out the differences between us.

We stopped by the well attended solar fair and then we then took off to Velarde, NM for a meeting and fundraiser organized by Steven and Sandra Rudy and hosted by Levi and Angelina Valdez. It was a beautiful afternoon in the apple orchard at Velarde. Levi's red delicious apples were awesome and we gave a speech to about 40 residents. His grandaughter was beautiful.

Those residents are angry because of the scene above. A landscape disaster is the best way to describe it. The land office allowed this to occur when it leased the land for sand and gravel operations over the objections of the local residents. It is everything that is wrong with putting money ahead of environmental concerns. A lot of residents say that the mountain that has been eradicated no longer can provide proper wind currents to the orchards in Velarde and that the crops have been freezing the last few years. I don't know if that is true or not, but people here are really upset and think my idea of a state land conservation system is a good one.