Carl Trujillo Launches Campaign for State Representative
Carl Trujllo has officially launched his 2012 campaign for New Mexico State Representative District 46 with the creation of a new campaign website, blog and Facebook page at www.CarlTrujillo.com.
In 2010, as a first-time citizen candidate, Trujillo came within fewer than 80 votes of winning the Democratic primary against 19-term incumbent Ben Lujan Sr.
Trujillo said his community-based campaign theme will be “Now’s Our Time.”
“Growing in this community, as a son, a husband and a father, I see the damage that entrenched career politicians have done to our community for too many years,” Trujillo said. “Every corrupt deal that goes down and lines the pockets of party politicians and their cronies steals opportunities from our kids and our community. We need to vote out the entrenched, corporate-funded party politicians, and elect real people who will put the interests of our community first.”
During the past two years, Trujillo said he has heard from many, many people in our community who have shared with him their concerns about the situation in New Mexico and expressed their support for his campaign.
Trujillo said the biggest issue on most people’s minds is fixing the economy as here in New Mexico jobs are harder and harder to come by, and it’s tougher and tougher for people to feed their families, much less buy a home or send their kids to college.
“Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs are getting wealthier, and here at home, so are our state politicians, who are primarily funded by big corporations,” Trujillo said. “At the national level, to fix our economy, we need to fight corporate and Wall Street corruption. Here in New Mexico, we need to get rid of an outdated political system of sweetheart deals and pay to play scandals that waste our taxpayer money and cost us and our children opportunities, money and jobs.”
Believing in the concept of citizen legislator, Trujillo indicated he is for term limits when he said, “The problem when one person is in office for too long is that they become career politicians, and put their personal interests and the interests of their friends before the interests of the people. Now’s our time to elect real people that will change this and put the well-being of people above wealthy politicians and their cronies.”
