SWOPblogger

Big thanks to the many folks who stopped the TIDD's, 1000 Friends, New Mexico Voices for Children, Conservation Voters New Mexico, Environment New Mexico and SWOP.

A particular thank you to Sen. Cisco McSorley, Sen. Dede Feldman, Sen. Cynthia Nava and Sen. John Grubesic for standing up against the TIDD's and this nasty tax payer giveaway.

In case you missed it here's Senator Cisco McSorley's take on how it all ended. Also check out Cocoposts perspective and the comments.

Here's an excerpt from the Tribune on Feb 15:
Sen. James Taylor, a South Valley Democrat, said the session was all about stalling.

He had been pushing to get a floor vote on a bill regarding a tax incentive for SunCal Cos., which wants to build thousands of homes on Albuquerque's West Side.

His problem was with some last-minute strategy employed by Sen. Cisco McSorley, an Albuquerque Democrat, who, saying he was part of a minority that opposed the tax bill, embarked upon a filibuster.

"I'm going to talk for a long time," McSorley declared.

A long time turned out to be 30 minutes of pacing in the corner of the Senate floor and waxing poetic about solar photovoltaic technology at Mesa del Sol, sprawl development and why the Bernalillo County Commission "gave away the farm" to SunCal.

It ended when the bill was tabled, but McSorley later said that using the Legislature's noon deadline to adjourn had worked for others in the past.

"It was my turn to be the minority to stop the work on a bill," he said.

Labels: 2008 Legislature, TIDD, TIF