7th NM Senate Dist. Candidate Jeff Carr
About the Author
I am running for New Mexico Senate district 7. See www.votejeffcarr.com my platform is below: Introduction: I believe in a holistic approach to government such as the way I teach history. We, whether we like it or not, live in a global economy and we must think in terms that fit that paradigm. We must take all issues in consideration because all issues are intertwined and affect every other issue in a significant or small way. For example, how do we teach our children ethics when our public officials and others get away completely, or with a slap on the wrist? How do we teach our children to protect the environment when many of us do not lead in this area? Although we must meet the challenge of individual issues, let us always keep in mind the whole society in which we live. I believe open and accessible government will go a long way in restoring public trust in government as a whole. Education: I support a strong public school system that includes charters and special funding formulas for our smaller rural schools. New Mexico has come a long way in improving the state of its public schools. Of course, there is always room for improvement and I will work hard to make sure our children have the best teachers, facilities and leadership we can provide them. Our schools are by and large doing an excellent job of educating our youth and providing the opportunities for an ever changing world. We must continue to strive for excellence by providing answers, not criticisms that only tear down, divide and demoralize our children’s schools. Our schools need highly qualified administrators and teachers who are well paid and respected academic leaders who lead by example and help provide a nurturing environment for all involved. Our classified support staff should also be well paid professionals. I believe we need to educate and nurture the whole child in order to prepare our children for a future world that we may not even be able to envision at present. They must be given the skills that will help them to thrive and adapt to unforeseen changes. These skills include; leadership, communication, art, social, citizenship, math, science, and business. We are not just preparing worker bees; we are preparing children for the responsibility of full citizenship. Water: Clean and plentiful water is in precious, short supply in our great and beautiful state, and we must do whatever is necessary to protect and preserve this natural resource for the future as well as the present. Conservation, pipelines, preserving our acequia systems and ranching, and bringing in industries that need little water are just some the areas of concern that I will always keep in mind. Law Enforcement: Being a Judge, I have had a special relationship with law enforcement and the challenges our Sheriff’s departments have in rural communities. Our law enforcement need increased funding for more officers; improved training, better pay, and high tech equipment that will help them preserve and protect us in this modern world. Over crowding in our jails and prisons could be alleviated with the use of electronic devices for non-violent offenders, and mandatory jail time should only be for violent offenders. Many drug offenders need rehabilitation, not jail. Included in this issue, and in this age of terrorism, is homeland security, emergency preparedness, and the National Guard. Economic Development: We need smart economic growth with the kind of industries that will fit New Mexico’s unique culture and environment. We need industries that need little water, employ New Mexicans, and have little environmental impact. Infrastructure such as roads, bridges, schools, medical facilities, and recreation are also important. Tourism, being a key to much of our local economies, should always be a consideration. Health care: We need universal health care. It is imperative for rural communities to have the help they need for quality health care without traveling great distances. Clinics with highly qualified staff and up-to-date health care facilities should be available to everyone because it is the right thing to do, and it is less expensive than using emergency rooms. With millions of baby boomers retiring, and our desire to attract these retirees to New Mexico, it is imperative that these facilities be created and maintained. We must also have adequate air medical evacuation capabilities available for the extreme cases. Please contribute with a credit card by using www.actblue.com Or write a check Made payable to Carr for Senate 7 and mail it to: Carr for Senate 7 PO Box 313 Eagle Nest, NM 87718

Remember Zel Miller speaking in front of the RNC convention in 2004? And now Leiberman who is still mad at the DNC over the Ned Lamont issue. For spite Joe keeps trying to hurt his former party. When Leiberman called himself a Democrat last night I spit at the TV and cursed the SOB.

He is NO Democrat. He is a revengeful spiteful man who allows himself just like Zel Miller to be used by the Right Wing extremist RNC. Oh by the way where is Zel?
As I remember the Republicans threw him away like a dirty rag after they bled him for all they could get. And so it will happen to Joe. Poor Joe, wanting so badly to trust the right wing and believing they will embrace unity and change.

Joe will you never learn? Joe unfortunately you too will be cast aside once the GOP decides you served your purpose for them and they have no further use for you just like Zel.

And just an observation on the Right Wing Convention, it's the economy stupid, but as Americans know the GOP can't really talk about domestic issues, just guns war and bombs.

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Ya''at'eeh!
As you all know my dad was deployed last Sunday to Iraq at 2:00 a.m. in the morning, I want to thank all here who have kept him along with the other troops in harms way in their prayers.
Prayer really works. I am not at liberty to disclose where in Iraq my dad is, but one thing I can say is where he is at there is a lot going on. He called at one in the morning Pacific standard time on Wednesday.
His third day in the field of honor and he was grazed in trhe face by shrapnel durring skirmish with Iraqui insurgents. Was treated in the field and returned to the to his job standing.
I thank the Great Spirit Grandfather for having protected him from losing his life, being that things could have been worse. Others are not that lucky. I thank alll for your prayers.
He still has many months to go in Iraq and hopefully he will be returning home safe and well before again getting redeployed.
I will be starting a support group here on PB for all PB members who have a loved one in harms way in that God forsaken land.
Our troops are the best there is and we need to fully support them at all times.
Their sacrifice is for us and our homeland. It is hoped that people really appreciate their sacrifice. They only follow orders and not to be blamed for their part in the belicose action. Please, do not let the history of Vietnam repeat it'self by blaming the troops and treating them like garbage on their return from the ongoing conflict.
Remind your legislators to insure they are properly taken care of upon their return. There is too much injustice already of misstreatment upon them having returned maimed physically and mentally.


T'a'a' iiyisi ahe'hee.
Little Dine'
A cultural note in History.A Great Native American Chief.
His entire family was exterminated over the trumped up excuse that some Indians had committed a robbery against certain invaders of Native land along the Ohio River, in the Spring of 1774.
The white men according to their custom would take any excuse to take it upon themselve's to punish innocent peaceful Native American's led by a Michael Crescrap and Daniel Greathouse whom attacked hunting parties of individual Native American's and slaughter them like animals in cold blood. to include women and children, just to insure they killed the right Indians. Chief Logan is mentioned in the History of Virginia.. It came to pass in that in Autumn of the same year Chief Logan took vengeance by declaring war against the white man. A fierce battle was to follow at the mouth of the Great Kenhawa, with the collective force of the Shawnee, Mingoes and Delaware Tribes. The Native American's were savagely defeated with superior weapons and great numbers of white men. As deafeated people, in order to stop the savage carnage of innocents, they proposed peace. Lord dunmore was the governor of Virginia and had demanded that Chief Logan personall apply for a treaty along with the Chief's of the Delaware and the Shawnee.
Chief logan sent a speech by messenger to Dunmore and stated:
That he appealed to any white man that could say, if he ever came to his lodge hungry and left unfed gave them fresh meat, if he came to his lodge naked and left unclothed. During the time of the previous long bloody war against the white man
he had remained in his lodge advocating peace. He had done so to save the live's of Native people and had not raised war against the white's to such a degree that he was accused by other Native American's as being a lover of the White Devil's and pointed at him when they passed.
He had even been willing to live among the White man
but because of the accusation's of one white man against some Indian people his entire family was massacred systematically in cold blood. Not one relative was left.
Not so much as one woman or child remained alive. Now the blood in his vein's flowed only in his body.
Reason enough for him to have taken revenge and killed many times many white men, not women and children.
He stated he glutted his vengeance to his fill.
For his native homeland he was happy there would be peace, but do not even entertain the thought that his joy was of fear of the white man. He had never known what fear was and would not bowdown on his knees to save his life. Not one soul was to mourn this great Chief.
Chief Logan was truly a man of extraordinary courage, he tried to keep peace to save the live's of Native American People. There are no more men now Like Chief Logan, of the Mingoe's.
Because all Native American people are one in Spirit and heart, we mourn him today. Well over two hundred years past, and we mourn and revere our Great Ancestor's from all Tribe's and Clan's. The latter is a story of true history of our people, Native America. My grandpa Dine' Warrior know's many storie's about our great Chief's from many Tribe's as they were recounted to him. And also as they are passed from generation to generation.
T'a'a' iiyisi Ahe'hee
Little Dine'
YA''AT'EEH!
Cultural note.
Having been raised and homeschooled by my grandpa, as he by his grandpa, and his grandpa by his grandpa, and his grandapa by his, At a time when one of my furthest greats had been forcibly sent to a mission school, the books that were used to learn what was the common english language at the time, known now as Eclectic reader's from pre-primer to the fourth Eclectic readers were what the first great then had learned the language from. By comparison to the standards of today a fourth level reader is equivelent to a reading level of first year of college. My grandpa by the grace of the Great Spirit Grandfather had recieved eclectic books from his grandfather and some writings from those books of knowledge passed from generation to generation. There are a great number of words in those books which are basically archaic as to use in every day language. The reading lessons in those books are considererd by today's standards deemed as prose and poetry. They are full of the terms known as thy and thee, taketh, giveth, and many other archaic expressions. However by updating the words from thy and thee to the and your the context is not lost but enriched.
This was at a time when few people could read and only the wealthy could afford an education. On the other hand if you happened to be a heathen that was forced to be civilized at the cost of sacrificing your language and culture, you had to make the best of the situation, alway's looking forward to the day you could run away and be your own free person.
The english language was not adulterated then with coloquialisms nor provincialisms.

Native American's whom learned the language at that time did not have much of a hard time understanding the language.
Those that retained what they could of the Native American language and culture, when translating the Native language to the english of the time would do so in a manner considererd by the standard of many as Hokey pokey Native American english jargon.
Being the Native American tongue was not adulterated it truley translates to prose and poetry.

For example:
I am not the one, versus it is not I,
I am not lying, versus I speak truth's.
I invite you and your family to come over to my home for supper, versus
brake bread with me in my Home, in company of my family.

As said before many people think the manner in which my grandpa and I speak is peculiar, while there are those that would state that I am being disrespectful by speaking what they confusingly term HOKEY POKEY INDIAN TALK, AND BEING DISRESPECTFULL OF MY PROUD HERITAGE.

My Grandpa was born in 1948, His grandpa was born in 1855, his before him was born in 1820, and his father before him was born in 1799, in the Four Corners Area having been enslaved by spanish and forced to mission school as a child. When the spanish lost the Southwest my great great great grandfather was forced to a protestant mission school as a child having been born in 1855 ran away from his enslavers as a young man, and staying in close contact with our people. My ancestors. I am highly honored and luckey to have been chosen to be educated in the tradition of my ancestor's. Many of my ancestors at that time would run away from the reservation's and hide among the Mexican's, eventhough there was a lot of prejudice toward Mexican's then in the Southwest, it was far less brutal than against Native American's. Native American's were hung from the nearest tree accused of being cattle rustler's. That happened to Mexican's also, but it was more of a sport when it came to Native American's. This is part of me, my history at a personal level and account from generation to generation. My family member's have served in every conflict America ever had, to include the fight against the Brittish , while forcibly serving under the Spanish military in Arizona. The names of my ancestors can be found in the listed soldiers that died in the war of 1776. When Spain had become an ally to the insurgents.
My grandpa is not the last to have served in Vietnam, also many family members. I have many close relatives serving now in Iraq, Afganistan, and many served in the Persian Gulf War, Mogadishu conflict, Korea, World War One, and World War Two.
Little Dine'.
Being a youth brought up conciously of rectitude in my intentions, I have willingly opened my heart for all to see what lay in it's deepest and most hidden corner's, constitute's the strongest pillar of my principle's and my character, which is still in development as I grow in maturity.

It is sad that youth's or peer's as my self be constanly attacked by those that would wish it is not an immature youth that yearn's for the wisdom of his elder's to make his way in life.

My elder's and my mentor Grandpa Dine' Warrior, as with all my peer's have made it the main objective to teach us the art of communication through eloquence and the knowledge of effective delivery of our deepest and innermost thought's. Our elder's have made this their primary business to educate us and they maintain that education starts in the home and at a very tender age, you might say that from the moment we begin to utter sounds of garbled noises as infants.

It seem's that we are cursed to be attacked and insulted by those whom see us as some type of threat to them, or preffer to believe they are being deceived by an adult that is intentionally trying to pass off as what they are not.
I ASK MYSELF, WHAT IS THE REASON BEHIND THE ATTACK'S, WHAT IS THEIR MOTIVATION TO THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD ME??, BECAUSE THERE ARE SEVERAL YOUTH'S ON THIS SITE THAT ARE VERY ELOQUENT AND SHOW TO BE MUCH MORE INTELIGENT AND ELOQUENT THAN I, FOR THEIR YOUNG AGE, YET THEY ARE NOT ATTACKED AS I HAVE BEEN..
DOES IT HAVE ANY RELATION TO MY BEING THE ONLY DECLARED NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH ON THIS SITE?
ASHER HEIMMERMAN, CELENA, NICK RAFTAPHOLOUS whom is campaignning for president in 2032, AND OTHER'S ALL ON MY FRIEND'S NETWORK.

DO THEY NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE POSSIBILITY THAT MAYBE I AM NOT THE ONLY NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH HERE, AND CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT OTHER YOUTH'S MAY NOT HAVE HAD THE AUDACITY TO MAKE THEIR HERITAGE PUBLIC? IN THE EVENT THAT ANY OTHER NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH COULD BE HERE ALSO, YOU WILL MAYBE ASK WHY NOT DECLARE THEIR HERITAGE?

WHY WILL THEY NOT DARE? THE HOPE TO CHANGE ATTITUDE'S FROM SOME DIEHARD INDIVIDUAL'S IS A PIPE DREAM. I DECLARED MY HERITAGE OUT OF PRIDE TO HONOR MY ANCESTOR'S AND MY MENTOR, GRANDPA DINE' WARRIOR. WE CAN NO LONGER DEFINE A PERSON'S HERITAGE BY CHRISTIAN FIRST AND LAST NAMES.
THE TRUTH IS PLAIN TO SEE, I BELIEVE IT IS ABOUT PREJUDICE TOWARD'S NATIVE AMERICAN'S, COMING FROM THESE PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL'S. OR IS IT BECAUSE THE OTHER YOUTH'S HERE HAVE ENDORSED OBAMA, AND I ENDORSE NO ONE?
I BELIEVE IT IS A LITTLE OF BOTH OF THE FOLLOWING FACTOR.

For the most part that is the manner in which I perceive this to be. I truely wish it were not so, but I would have to be a truly naive youth to expect hatred that has lasted for centuries to go away anytime soon. Prejudice is live and well, and it is being made public everywhere, and is being accepted as part of every day life, because of the Presidential race over race.
I also believe it is because I refuse to endorse.

I have been accused of deception, multipal screen handles, of all sort of irrational action's. I have been on the verge of losing complete control of respect for these individual's, whose name I do not need make public, all here that have seen the comments made by them accusing and attacking know who they are.

It is heart braking because I have on occasion faultered in maintaining the standard's of highest respect due to prudence being weakened. I ask of you whom are truly enlightened and mature adult's, Should I consider dropping this site, or continue with the practice of blogging post's and have to delete them, when the post's are trashed with filth and vulgar language from
from those whom seem compelled to trash my every thought on whichever issue, adding insult to mockery.

May The Great Spirit Bless you all. I hope the day will come that many of you in San Diego county can come together at a major event, hoping to meet you personally, as it was during the Prez on the Rez Event of August 23rd 2007. Which took place at the Cabazon Band nation in the Inland Empire.
PLEASE DO NOT TRASH THIS POST. I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE IT UP.

Peace.
Little Dine'
Which of the above prevail here?

Respect Versus Arrogance.

50/50?

75/25?

80/20?

90/10?



Respect
an act of giving particular attention : consideration3 a: high or special regard : esteem b: the quality or state of being esteemed cplural :


arrogant

1 : exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner
2 : proceeding from or characterized by arrogance


Are 5th grader's more respectful than us on PB?
We already know there are some smarter.

LOBO.
PEACE.
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