May 25, 2018 • Local News
Las Cruces Sun News: YOUR OPINIONS Jones using character assassination
Sandy Jones is at it again. He's trying to get reelected to the Public Regulation Commission through character assassination. Jones was elected to the position in 2014 after sending out a last-minute flyer with spurious attacks on primary opponent Merrie Lee Soules. Now he's doing the same against primary opponent Steve Fischmann.
Many voters just received Jones' flyer claiming that Fischmann 'says no to veterans.' According to Jones: 'He doesn't care about Veterans. He won't care about consumers.'
The flyer says that in 2012 as a state senator Fischmann cast the only vote against a bill favoring economic opportunities for veterans. In fact Fischmann wrote an editorial after the vote (NMPolitics.net, March 13, 2012) saying that the bill was poorly written and didn't provide the veteran tax credits promised in the way described.
If you want to research NM HB 97 from 2012, you can find it on the Internet and decide for yourself whether Fischmann was right. The point is, he didn't vote against the bill because he opposed veterans, and how he voted six years ago has nothing to with his qualifications for the PRC. Sandy Jones is simply digging up obscure history to attack his opponent.
It's the same thing he did in 2014 when he claimed that because Merrie Lee Soules once worked as an executive for a Mexican subsidiary of GM, she was responsible for loss of jobs to Mexico. Jones won that election by only 0.6 percent.
With the primary election June 5 and early voting already started, there's not much time to respond to misleading mailings. But the fact that Sandy Jones spends his advertising dollars on ancient history rather than current issues says something about his character. Please base your vote on candidate qualifications rather than irrelevant attack ads.
Bruce McKinney, Silver City
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