Joe Carraro for U.S. Senate

Hi, I’m Joe Carraro. Welcome, my friend.

You know, you can always tell when it’s election time. No offense, but that’s when we finally hear from Senator Luján and others who say they’re working for you full-time.

We didn’t hear from him when they named New Mexico the most undesirable place to live of all the states. We didn’t hear from him when they named New Mexico the worst place to raise a family and voted it the worst place to move a business. Not a peep. Not a peep when our kids’ education was rated the worst, even though we spend as much on public education as is spent on the best private schools.

And not to mention now that we’re at the top in violent crime and burglaries and have a better chance of experiencing crime than finding a doctor to treat us. Health care is only getting harder to find as senators get theirs for free.

It’s desperate out there. But he gets to encourage millions of displaced foreigners to cross our borders against our laws and make all our problems worse. He just sat there without saying a thing, being told by his leadership what to do and say, even though he could see so much turmoil and competition for our services and hear about the news of murders, rapes, robberies, and all those missing children that affected everyone involved.

We can’t keep going on for another six years living like this, or until he receives a pension added to the many millions he has accumulated for doing nothing. And where did all his wealth and money come from?

As constituents lose their health care, experience more crime, and our kids fall further behind—forced to move out of the state to compete with other job seekers who are much better educated there, since businesses aren’t moving here—we deserve better.

For those of us who love New Mexico, we need to join together and make a change of direction, with me as an independent—not worried about what political parties want, but focusing on people before politics. That’s the way it used to be accomplished: working together, fulfilling promises, and not bettering our lives at the expense of others.

So now, rather than retiring, God has once again allowed me to work hard and use my talents to make things better for all of us, using my status as a registered independent to compete against a senator who takes orders from his party or an inexperienced write-in candidate.

I’d agree to term limits of one term, serving six years, and will retire without a federal pension. I will work without a salary, as I did as a state senator, because of the love I have for our state and its people. That’s what I owe you all for all you’ve given me. Too bad Senator Luján doesn’t feel the same.

I’ll have a full six years to reverse all the negatives and turn them into positives with the help of God and all those out there who feel the same way I do. If you’ve been following all my work, you know that if I say I’ll get it done, I will get it done.

If any of this interests you, I’d be honored to have you join with me and sign my petition. Thanks again, my friend.