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The full text of Carl's announcement of his candidacy:

“Today, I’m officially announcing my candidacy for New Mexico State Representative District 46.  As many of you know, we came within just a handful of votes of victory in 2010, and we’re here to finish what we started in our first Campaign for Change.  Since 2010, my supporters and I have spent hundreds of hours actively out in the community listening to people’s concerns.
Of course, the biggest issue on most people’s minds is fixing our economy.  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.  Meanwhile, 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.  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  Here in New Mexico, we need to get rid of an outdated political system of sweetheart deals and pay to play scandals that waste our taxpayer money and cost us and our children opportunities, money and jobs.  Now’s our time to elect real people that will change this and put the well being of people above wealthy politicians.

I believe strongly in the concept of a citizen legislator.  I believe that’s the way our democracy was intended to work.  The problem when one person is in office for too long is that they become career politicians, and they put their personal interests and the interests of their friends before the interests of the people.  I’m not a career politician. I’m part of this community, I’m a citizen first, and I’m running to represent the people.”

Carl Trujillo