NAME: Gregory Cunningham
POLITICAL PARTY: Republican
OCCUPATION: Retired APD officer/enterprise proprietor
CITY OF RESIDENCE: Albuquerque
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: Born and raised in Albuquerque, United States Marines Special Forces fight veteran, APD detective, small enterprise proprietor.
EDUCATION: Menaul Excessive Faculty, College of Albuquerque (2 years)
CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: avoicefornewmexico.com
1. New Mexico is very reliant on the oil and pure fuel industries to generate income to fund state applications, as evidenced by current oil growth and bust cycles. What steps ought to the Legislature take to diversify the state’s financial system and income base?
We should defend the Land Grant Everlasting Fund by not overspending. New Mexico is blessed with plentiful oil and pure fuel deposits. We should use this pure useful resource to learn all of New Mexico. Solely with an informed and expert workforce will we have the ability to entice new companies.
2. Over the past common legislative session, there was an unsuccessful push to make it simpler to maintain sure defendants behind bars till trial. Ought to New Mexico regulation be modified to make it simpler to carry people charged with violent offenses reminiscent of homicide and first-degree little one abuse behind bars till trial?
Completely. With out query.
3. What steps ought to the Legislature take to deal with crime and public security as New Mexico faces one of many highest violent crime charges within the nation?
We should defend our law-abiding residents and households. An overhaul of our schooling system is important, the state should pressure prosecutors to implement the regulation and we should set up necessary sentencing tips and cut back judicial discretion.
4. Given the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s current choice to overturn Roe v. Wade, do you help or oppose codifying abortion protections in state regulation? And do you help or oppose enacting any restrictions on abortion in New Mexico?
New Mexico already has state legal guidelines on the books defending all abortions in New Mexico.
5. New Mexico has already carried out a number of gun management legal guidelines lately. Would you help or oppose laws that banned or restricted the sale of AR-15-style semi-automatic weapons, reminiscent of elevating the age restrict for buying such weapons? And what about laws making it against the law to fail to soundly safe firearms round youngsters?
I don’t help the banning of any semi-automatic rifle. There are a lot of methods we have to tackle the crime subject throughout New Mexico. First by overhauling our damaged schooling system, imposing legal guidelines and eliminating judicial discretion.
6. The state company tasked with maintaining New Mexico youngsters protected has confronted current scrutiny over transparency points and its dealing with of high-profile little one abuse circumstances. What adjustments would you help to enhance the operations of the Youngsters, Youth and Households Division?
Like a lot of New Mexico authorities that fails youngsters we should do a prime to backside analysis and make that division efficient. Laptop algorithms usually are not the reply because it has been steered.
7. What adjustments, if any, ought to New Mexico make to its gross receipts tax code?
The New Mexico GRT must be abolished, and the required quantity must be added to the gross sales tax. We must be sincere about what customers are paying in taxes.
8. New Mexico is presently the one state that doesn’t pay its legislators a wage, although lawmakers do get per diem funds and may qualify for a legislative pension. Do you help or oppose a salaried Legislature and, in that case, how a lot ought to lawmakers be paid?
Sure, $30,000 per 12 months.
9. What extra, if something, ought to the Legislature do to deal with a courtroom ruling that discovered New Mexico is failing to supply a enough schooling to all college students, particularly Native Individuals and those that don’t converse English as a primary language?
New Mexico is fiftieth within the nation for schooling. We spend half of our state price range, $4.8 billion to fail all of New Mexico’s youngsters. We should overhaul our full instructional system.
10. Lately, New Mexico has steadily elevated spending on early childhood applications, reminiscent of residence visiting, prekindergarten and little one care help, and created a brand new early childhood belief fund. Do you help or oppose the proposed constitutional modification on the November poll that might withdraw extra money from the state’s everlasting college fund to extend funding for early childhood companies and Okay-12 schooling?
Our state spends $4.8 billion this 12 months to be lifeless final in schooling. Our checkbook isn’t damaged our instructional system is. All of the Pre-Okay cash on the planet received’t maintain a tenth grader in high-school. I can’t help 350,000,000 extra {dollars} for undefined applications on a legislative spending spree.
11. To be able to tackle local weather change and air high quality points, do you help or oppose laws limiting greenhouse fuel emissions and requiring the state obtain net-zero emissions by 2050?
I oppose this laws. Our state must be on par with different states and have a pro-business setting. This subject must be nationally regulated. We must be one nation not 50 states with a patchwork of various emissions legal guidelines.
12. Do you consider adjustments must be made to the emergency powers held by a governor throughout a pandemic or different time of disaster. In that case, do you consider such powers must be expanded or diminished and in what particular methods?
All emergency powers that the governor has mustn’t lengthen past 30 days with out legislative approval.
13. Would you help a merit-based analysis system to find out how the state spends its capital outlay funding?
No.
14. Do you consider former President Donald Trump’s declare that he was the reputable winner of the 2020 presidential election? (Sure or No reply solely, please)
No response.
15. What adjustments, if any, would you help to New Mexico’s election legal guidelines?
I consider that any acceptable state ID must be required to vote. ID is required to purchase cigarettes, liquor, or to board a airplane. It appears applicable to verify the fitting voter is casting a vote.
Private background
1. Have you ever or your corporation, in case you are a enterprise proprietor, ever been the topic of any state or federal tax liens?
Sure, state of New Mexico in 2011 and launched in 2012. GRT when enterprise first opened.
2. Have you ever ever been concerned in a private or enterprise chapter continuing?
No.
3. Have you ever ever been arrested for, charged with, or convicted of drunken driving, any misdemeanor or any felony in New Mexico or every other state? In that case, clarify.
No.
