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</div><div>see rio grande</div><div>bad code here</div><div></div><div><div>New Koch</div><div>Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity opens shop again in NM</div><div>
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</div><div>By Matt Grubs</div><div>June 12, 2017 </div><div>
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</div><div>In the world of liberal and progressive politics, there have been perhaps no more effective boogeymen than Charles and David Koch. The billionaire Kansas businessmen have played an outsized role in conservative politics in the new millennium.</div><div>
</div><div>After at least a four-year hiatus, the Koch brothers-founded nonprofit Americans for Prosperity is back in New Mexico and prepared to spend during the upcoming election cycle.</div><div>
</div><div>"Broadly speaking, we advocate for the framework for a free society," says AFP state director Robert "Burly" Cain. "I have seen time and again how devastating the government can be when it's used in the wrong way."</div><div>
</div><div>Cain is a native New Mexican and has recently worked on the presidential campaign of Libertarian and former governor Gary Johnson.</div><div>
</div><div>He tells SFR the state has failed to lift up the public education system, hold down heath care costs in check and ease the burden on entrepreneurs. "It's a really challenging environment for people to start businesses here. And it's getting harder," Cain says.</div><div>
</div><div>While the Kochs have publicly distanced themselves from AFP in recent years, the nonprofit isn't required to disclose its donors, so the extent of their financial support is unknown. As an IRS-designated 501(c)(4) nonprofit, the group has to spend the majority of its money on "social welfare" issues and education. That can include lobbying and political advertising, as long as AFP doesn't endorse or oppose a specific candidate and doesn't spend the majority of its money on political activities.</div><div>
</div><div>Cain started with AFP on May 1 and says he'll open an Albuquerque office soon, with plans to identify locations for satellite offices in the near future. Santa Fe is in the running, he says. AFP plans an advocacy training session, something it calls the Grassroots Leadership Academy, next month, as well as the start of a speakers' series in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces. He hasn't announced the speakers.</div><div>
</div><div>Democratic Party of New Mexico Chair Richard Ellenberg isn't likely to attend, calling AFP's positions "extreme" and targeted to benefit millionaires and billionaires.</div><div>
</div><div>"Americans for Prosperity forces their ideology without recognizing the culture and the needs of our state. We cannot allow two billionaires to buy political influence in our state," he tells SFR in a statement.</div><div>
</div><div>"There are those who want to make some of our donors out to be bad people because they've been successful," Cain says of the opposition he knows is out there. "They're wonderful people. The organization itself has done incredible things around the country.</div><div>
</div><div>"I think anyone who wants to take a minute to talk to me will learn that whether it's criminal justice reform, tax reform, good government … I think they'll see there's a lot of work we do that they'll appreciate."</div><div>
</div><div>Paul Gessing, of the libertarian-oriented think tank the Rio Grande Foundation, partnered recently with AFP to oppose a gas tax increase in Albuquerque to pay for maintenance and improvement of Duke City roads.</div><div>
</div><div>"To the extent that we're in alignment, we'll work with them," Gessing tells SFR over the phone. He points out that the Rio Grande Foundation takes more of a policy approach to its activities than a political approach, but says it's not uncommon for AFP's political stance to line up with the foundation's policy statements.</div><div>
</div><div>Equally, if not more, important than having political camaraderie is having money to back it up.</div><div>
</div><div>"We welcome them back to a liberal-leaning state," Gessing says. "There's just not a lot of political money here, but it seems to me that it's an unbalanced ledger."</div><div>
</div><div>If there's one thing AFP knows how to do, it's spend money.</div><div>
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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">Rio Grande Foundation is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy" title="Economic policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economic policy</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">think tank</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albuquerque,New_Mexico" title="Albuquerque, New Mexico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Albuquerque, New Mexico</a> affiliated with the U.S. nationwide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a>. It was founded in 2000 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Stratton" title="Hal Stratton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hal Stratton</a>, a former state representative and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_New_Mexico" title="" style="background: none;">Attorney General of New Mexico</a>, and Harry Messenheimer, an economist then at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University" title="George Mason University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George Mason University</a>. Paul Gessing became president in 2006.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>The group is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.The Foundation maintains a website and a blog called Errors of Enchantment, and regularly contributes opinion pieces to local newspapers, as well as publishing reports on state economic policy. The Foundation's president, Paul Gessing, has been featured on local talk shows and radio programs to discuss economic issues.<div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#Policy_goals" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Policy goals</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#Activities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Activities</a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#Government_transparency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Government transparency</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#Cabinet_expansion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2Cabinet expansion</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#Albuquerque_streetcar" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3Albuquerque streetcar</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#Rail_Runner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.4Rail Runner</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#Eminent_domain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.5Eminent domain</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.6Education</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#Film_subsidies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.7Film subsidies</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#Freedom_Index" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Freedom Index</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Policy goals[</h2>The Rio Grande Foundation supports tax cuts and reduced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending" title="Government spending" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">government spending</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_choice" title="School choice" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">school choice</a>, specifically by means of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_credits" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax credits" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">tax credits</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_vouchers" class="mw-redirect" title="School vouchers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">school vouchers</a>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a> It opposes the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain" title="Eminent domain" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">eminent domain</a> and supports expansive private-property rights.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Activities[</h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Government transparency[</h3><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Wall Street Journal</a> ran an article on January 19, 2009, outlining several allegations of state corruption in New Mexico and pointing to the state's lack of comprehensive ethics laws as a possible cause.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-WSJ-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> On January 29, The Wall Street Journal published a letter by Rio Grande Foundation president Paul Gessing, suggesting that government transparency would improve New Mexico's political situation. Gessing pointed out that the legislature had failed to follow through with any of the proposed ethics reforms of recent years. He suggested that the legislature begin Webcasting its sessions to give citizens the opportunity to monitor their government's actions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-WSJletter-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a>The New Mexico Watchdog was initially funded by the Rio Grande Foundation, and subsequently became affiliated with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Center_for_Government_and_Public_Integrity" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</a>.<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Cabinet expansion[</h3>In 2009, the Rio Grande Foundation president Paul Gessing criticized the creation of a Department of Motor Vehicles and Hispanic Affairs Department in New Mexico, an idea proposed in two bills introduced in the New Mexico legislature. In an interview with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_New_Mexican" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Fe New Mexican" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Santa Fe New Mexican</a>, Gessing said, "the last thing we need is to hire more highly-paid cabinet-level state bureaucrats."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-SFNM-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Albuquerque streetcar[</h3>The Rio Grande Foundation "made a big splash" in its fight against a streetcar project in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albuquerque" class="mw-redirect" title="Albuquerque" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Albuquerque</a>; several members of the group spoke in opposition to the streetcar at the City Council, and the Foundation supported an anti-streecar group called Stop Wasting Albuquerque Taxes (SWAT).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Rail Runner[</h3>The foundation has been consistently opposed to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_Rail_Runner_Express" title="New Mexico Rail Runner Express" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Mexico Rail Runner Express</a> on fiscal grounds.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> Transportation policy expert and frequent critic of light rail <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_O%27Toole" title="Randal O'Toole" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Randal O'Toole</a> spoke on the subject of public transit at a 2010 event sponsored by the Rio Grande Foundation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a> In a 2011 report, the Foundation noted that early projected costs were far below its actual costs and suggesting that the subsidies it receives could produce many more passenger-miles if spent on other transportation projects; for these and other reasons including low daily ridership (an estimated 3,700 as of the second quarter of 2013<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a>), the report advocated the termination of the Rail Runner line.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Eminent domain[</h3>The Foundation opposes eminent domain, and in 2006, Rio Grande Foundation President Paul Gessing wrote an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed" title="Op-ed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">op-ed</a> published in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albuquerque_Journal" title="Albuquerque Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Albuquerque Journal</a> that criticized Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Richardson" title="Bill Richardson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Richardson</a> for vetoing a bill to restrict the use of eminent domain.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-shocking-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Education[</h3>The Rio Grande Foundation advocates <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_choice" title="School choice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">school choice</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> The Foundation has written frequently about perceived shortcomings in New Mexico's Lottery Scholarship Program.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> The Foundation published report in 2012 and 2013 on the transparency and executive compensation at New Mexico's institutes of higher education.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Film subsidies[</h3>The Rio Grande Foundation has been critical of New Mexico's film tax credit program. Gessing argues that despite the visible gains of the policy, it places a greater tax burden on the rest of the state's taxpayers and it not a net gain.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a> It co-hosted a debate with the Motion Picture Association of New Mexico on January 1, 2011,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> and was critical of a 2009 report rating the subsidy policy favorably.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> Before the 2011 New Mexico Legislative Session the Foundation proposed a cap of $30 million on the industry credit; the credit was ultimately capped at $50 million.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Freedom Index[</h2>The Rio Grande Foundation’s website hosts its Freedom Index, a legislative tracking tool that allows visitors to see the Foundation’s numerical ratings and written analyses of selected bills in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_Legislature" title="New Mexico Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Mexico Legislature</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> Legislators are not scored directly but receive scores based on their votes on bills that have been rated. The Freedom Index began in 2013.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">References[</h2><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal; margin-top: 0.3em; column-width: 30em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-Charity_Ratings-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Foundation#cite_ref-Charity_Ratings_1-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; 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</div><div><div class="the-content the-content--single" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 8em;">paul Gessing wanted to pop the top on the soda tax in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That was all. The president of the libertarian Rio Grande Foundation never planned to file a lawsuit against the city. But when Santa Fe elected officials accused him of violating a campaign finance ordinance and demanded to see his donor list, he thought he had no choice.

...Rio Grande’s problem is nothing new. In fact, the John Locke Foundation and dozens of other nonprofits have faced and continue to face similar scrutiny from people and organizations opposing the nonprofits’ mission.  Under federal law, organizations classified as 501(c)3 aren’t allowed to engage in political or campaign advocacy, while 501(c)4 entities may participate in lobbying and political campaigning — provided the majority of their work is focused on public policy and issue advocacy.&

...Although 501(c)3 nonprofits are prohibited from endorsing or opposing any candidate running for elected office, for decades they’ve been subject to much scrutiny under federal and local campaign finance laws.  The trouble for Rio Grande began in March, when Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales proposed a two-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages including soda, energy drinks, sports drinks, juice boxes, and even sweetened coffee. The revenue would fund a Pre-K program for the city, Gessing told Carolina Journal.  The tax was bad news, RGF policy analysts said. Beverage prices would explode. The cost of a soda 12-pack would nearly double. Low-income families would suffer.  On April 6, RGF <a href="http://www.nowaysantafe.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">released a website and video </a>voicing their concerns. The goal was to tell voters what would happen if they green-lighted the plan.  The same day RGF released the video, Gessing got a letter from the city’s attorneys.  “They said, ‘If you go ahead with this, you’re going to have to disclose your donors.’ And that’s when I kind of freaked out a little bit.” RGF had done nothing illegal by IRS 501(c)3 nonprofit standards, Guessing said. They weren’t campaigning on behalf of a candidate. They weren’t engaged in inappropriate advocacy.  “It was news to me. I was running around with my hair on fire for the next few days trying to figure out what to do going forward, because it was totally unexpected.” RGF violated a city law, passed in 2015, that forces nonprofits to disclose donor information if they campaign around ballot initiatives, city attorneys said. Gessing appeared before the city ethics board, where he was forced to disclose the nonprofit that produced the website and video, as well as the name of the donor who funded the project.  RGF decided to keep the website up but canceled plans for expensive postcard and social media campaigns.  Shortly after, Matt Miller, an attorney from the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute, called Guessing.  Santa Fe’s law was unconstitutional, Miller said.  “I told [Gessing] that we could challenge this law in federal court and have a good probability of winning.”  A lawsuit was filed.  The controversy surrounding nonprofit disclosure lawsArguments over nonprofits and donor privacy date back to 1956, when Alabama tried to force the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to turn over its bank records and donor information.  Alabama repeatedly claimed the NAACP was breaking a state law requiring foreign corporations to qualify before doing business in the state.  The nonprofit, based in New York, believed it was exempt from the law. Turning over its donor information would be dangerous to supporters and would deter future contributions, NAACP leaders said. A two-year legal battle ensued, until, in 1958, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the NAACP, saying that Alabama’s demand violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.In 2010, Citizens United, a conservative 501(c)4, challenged the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, a 2002 law preventing corporations or union-funded political ads from airing within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election. The law also required “electioneering communications” to display the name and address of the person or group that funded the ad.  The organization was blocked from airing a documentary about Hillary Clinton shortly before the 2008 presidential primary. Though the film was critical of Clinton, it did not explicitly tell voters to vote against her.  The Supreme Court voted, 5-4, in favor of Citizens United, ruling that government shouldn’t restrict speech for some corporations while exempting other corporations with media affiliations. The court did, however, maintain the BCRA’s donor disclosure requirement.  In 2014, Delaware Strong Families, a 501(c)3 religious nonprofit, planned to distribute a voter guide based on issues of interest. The practice is a common way for organizations to inform voters about where candidates stand on social and economic issues.  Under Delaware law, DSF was required to report the names, addresses, and contribution amounts of its donors, because the voter guide qualified as an electioneering communication. Not only was the state interested in who paid for the voter guide, it also wanted to see the names of any donor who contributed more than $100 to the nonprofit during the election period.  Broadening the ‘media exemption’ to include nonprofits  Both 501(c)3s and 501(c)4s are treated unfairly under campaign finance laws, <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/licensure/An+Informed+Citizenry+w+Imagery+FINAL+.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">a recent study</a> on nonprofit privacy shows.  The primary jobs of public policy organizations are analyzing legislation and informing the public of potential outcomes, said Jon Riches, director of national litigation and general counsel for the Goldwater Institute.  Such work is similar to that done by news outlets, but, unlike media organizations, 5o1(c)3s and 501(c)4s don’t receive the exemptions under campaign finance laws.  That’s a double standard, Riches told CJ.  Media organizations write opinions, endorse candidates, and accept money to print campaign ads. All of these activities could be classified as campaign and “electioneering communications.” Yet, to protect First Amendment rights, newspapers and networks aren’t held to account in the same way as nonprofits.  For example, the Gannett-owned Delaware News Journal exercises tremendous influence over public policy and political races. In the 2016 election, the paper endorsed candidates for governor, Congress, New Castle County executive, and Wilmington mayor.  But unlike DSF, which was scrutinized for its “electioneering communication,” the Journal was exempt from Delaware’s campaign finance laws.  Media exemptions protect First Amendment rights, but the criteria for those privileges are outdated, Riches said. Many modern news sources are owned by privately funded nonprofits. Additionally, the public turns to think tanks and public policy nonprofits to gather information, just as they would turn to a news network.  A paradox results. “A small nonprofit organization is subject to often onerous regulations whenever it speaks about policymakers or supports candidates and issues in the run-up to an election — while giant companies like Comcast, CNN, or Fox [News] can make movies, publish reports, and write editorials supporting or opposing those very same issues and candidates without facing any such restrictions whatsoever,” Riches writes in An Informed Citizenry: Broadening the “Media Exemption” to Include Nonprofit Communications.  No principled reason exists to treat public policy nonprofits differently than news organizations, especially since the purpose of the press exemption is preserving the collection and dissemination of information, he said.  That value doesn’t depend on the identity or corporate structure of the outlet.  “Some have argued that the institutional press should receive special constitutional protection not afforded to other corporations or associations because the institutional press is somehow unique,” Riches said. “These arguments are dangerously elitist.” Campaign finance laws enforce transparency and sometimes do, indeed, apply to news networks, countered Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause North Carolina.  Filing as a 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 doesn’t qualify an organization for a press exemption, Phillips said. Donor disclosures and other privacy regulations are determined by a nonprofit’s activities. For example, if a 501(c)4 campaigns on behalf of a candidate, it should disclose its donors.  Such laws exist to protect the public from corruption, Phillips said.  “The U.S. Supreme Court and lower courts throughout the nation have made clear that disclosure laws are a minimal burden on First Amendment activity and that they serve the very important public interest in maintaining a well-informed electorate,” he told CJ.  Courts should continue to apply a balancing test to Constitutional challenges, as in the Citizens United case, Phillips added.  But any law not “strictly tailored to campaign finance needs” is concerning, said Susanna Birdsong, policy counsel for the North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.  “As ever we will oppose and challenge campaign finance reform laws that we believe are unconstitutionally overbroad,” Birdsong said. What’s next for the Rio Grande Foundation There’s a good chance RGF will win the lawsuit against Santa Fe, Miller said. On Aug. 24, the city filed an answer to the case, denying the foundation’s conclusion that requiring donor disclosure burdens a person’s right to free speech.   “The Rio Grande Foundation has alleged no facts that indicate that disclosure of its contributors’ names will subject them to threats, harassment, or reprisals from either government officials or private parties,” wrote Santa Fe attorney Kelly Brennan.  The case is on hold for several months while lawyers on both sides build their defense. No major developments are likely before the beginning of 2018, Miller said.  For now, Gessing and his staff are stuck waiting. “The idea of donor privacy is being totally undermined here,” Gessing told CJ. If foundation contributors sense a threat to their privacy, they will be far less likely to support RGF — or any other nonprofit. That’s a threat to free speech.  It’s one thing to have campaign or candidate oriented finance laws. It’s another to have ballot measure regulations, Gessing said. “You can always argue that there’s a quid pro quo with the candidate, whereas the ballot measure, pass or no pass, isn’t going to give us anything on the backside of the issue. We are purely involved in the ballot measure … because of principle.”  Perception is half the battle for conservative think tanks such as RGF, which are often branded as mouthpieces for the Koch brothers. This can sometimes evoke hostility from Left-leaning politicians.  Mayor Javier Gonzales, a Democrat, doesn’t necessarily have a vendetta against RGF, but the organization’s libertarian label hasn’t helped the situation, Gessing said.  “I think [city officials] were probably more gleeful in their enforcement than they would have been otherwise.”  The Constitution is clear on the issue, Miller said. Governments can’t silence nonprofits by threatening the privacy of their donors.  It is up to individuals to decide whether an organization is honest, he said.  “Groups may choose to make themselves very transparent to gain legitimacy. And it’s totally legitimate for listeners and voters to prefer messages from people who are totally transparent.” And, apparently, Santa Fe residents listened to RGF’s video and website. <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2017-05-01/soda-tax-rivals-spend-to-influence-final-vote-in-santa-fe" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">In May, the proposed soda tax fell flat among voters</a>.  Gessing only hopes his organization can continue to work as it should.  “We’ve been active and involved and taken positions on soda taxes before. It’s not like we just rolled out of bed one day and saw this tax and got … a big check from the soda industry and said, ‘OK, now we’ve got to do this.’”  “This is the core of what we do.”</div><div class="content-meta single-article__content-meta mt2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">categories: <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/category/business-and-regulations/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Business and Regulations</a>, <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/category/cj-exclusives/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">CJ Exclusives</a>, <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/category/law-regulation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Law & Regulation</a>, <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/category/north-carolina/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">North Carolina</a>tags: <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/tag/campaign-finance/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">campaign finance</a>, <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/tag/first-amendment/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">First Amendment</a>, <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/tag/goldwater-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">goldwater institute</a>, <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/tag/naacp/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">NAACP</a>, <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/tag/rio-grande-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">rio grande foundation</a></div></div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/city-leaders-push-soda-tax-to-fund-early-childhood-education/article_871ab9c1-f8ec-58e2-9bae-f58d505a1d35.html">https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/city-leaders-push-soda-tax-to-fund-early-childhood-education/article_871ab9c1-f8ec-58e2-9bae-f58d505a1d35.html</a></div><div>
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...Mayor Gonzales misled public on his plan to impose new tax ...<

...will bring in $10 million ... “Just as his community experts did, Santa Fe city councilors should reject ...</div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YfKLi1vQNVUJ:https://riograndefoundation.org/mayor-gonzales-misled-public-on-his-plan-to-impose-new-tax-rio-grande-foundation-analysis-finds/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:YfKLi1vQNVUJ:https://riograndefoundation.org/mayor-gonzales-misled-public-on-his-plan-to-impose-new-tax-rio-grande-foundation-analysis-finds/%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjPpvSP5O7rAhVLgK0KHciUBcMQIDAFegQIBRAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YfKLi1vQNVUJ:https://riograndefoundation.org/mayor-gonzales-misled-public-on-his-plan-to-impose-new-tax-rio-grande-foundation-analysis-finds/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:YfKLi1vQNVUJ:https://riograndefoundation.org/mayor-gonzales-misled-public-on-his-plan-to-impose-new-tax-rio-grande-foundation-analysis-finds/%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjPpvSP5O7rAhVLgK0KHciUBcMQIDAFegQIBRAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YfKLi1vQNVUJ:https://riograndefoundation.org/mayor-gonzales-misled-public-on-his-plan-to-impose-new-tax-rio-grande-foundation-analysis-finds/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:YfKLi1vQNVUJ:https://riograndefoundation.org/mayor-gonzales-misled-public-on-his-plan-to-impose-new-tax-rio-grande-foundation-analysis-finds/%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjPpvSP5O7rAhVLgK0KHciUBcMQIDAFegQIBRAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">n one of his first official acts since ringing in the New Year on the Plaza, Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales revealed his New Year’s resolution: to impose a new tax on Santa Fe residents (</a><a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/editorials/our-view-paying-for-pre-k-santa-fe-debates/article_f32e25f1-f299-5187-b2a8-b96ca89c59b8.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">the bill is expected to be introduced at tonight’s Council meeting</a>). Despite recently <a href="http://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/santa-fe-mayor-javier-gonzales/4349018/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">praising himself</a> in interviews for not raising taxes, Mayor Gonzales is expected to call a special election for a one cent per ounce tax on a wide range of beverages such as soda, energy drinks, lemonade, iced tea and even almond milk.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">A Rio Grande Foundation analysis of records and communications released under the Inspection of Public Information Act, along with media reports and other publicly available documents concluded that the mayor has been less than forthcoming about his desire to impose new taxes on Santa Feans.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“From the outset, Mayor Gonzales has desired more taxes to fuel more government spending,” Paul Gessing, president of the Rio Grande Foundation, said. “Our analysis exposes the absurdity of him using tax hikes to masquerade as a public health crusader instead of a typical tax-and-spend politician.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The analysis can be found on the following pages. Among the key findings:<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; line-height: 26px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Mayor Gonzales misled the public about his intention to impose a beverage tax from the start.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Mayor Gonzales’ community experts rejected his tax, calling it “the worst thing we could do.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Mayor Gonzales’ assertion that his soda tax will bring in $10 million annually is a fantasy.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Additionally, this beverage tax will significantly increase the cost of doing business for retailers, and almost all consumers will see higher grocery bills. Low income residents will bear the brunt of Mayor Gonzales’ regressive new tax.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“Just as his community experts did, Santa Fe city councilors should reject this proposal and say ‘No Taxation on Carbonation,’” Gessing said.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Examining records and communications released under the Inspection of Public Information Act (and currently available at Santa Fe City Hall), along with media reports and other public records, the Rio Grande Foundation arrived at the following conclusions regarding Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales’ proposal to impose a one cent per ounce tax on sweetened beverages:<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; line-height: 26px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">A beverage tax was the intended outcome of the mayor’s resolution to “explore active ways of reducing sugar intake” among Santa Fe residents<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: disc; line-height: 26px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Before the resolution was made public, Santa Fe Legislative Liaison Jesse Guillén called a tax on sugary drinks “a good place to start.” The mayor seemingly agreed and replied with an article about taxing beverages. <a href="https://postimg.org/image/a9vil3xfb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">https://postimg.org/image/a9vi3xfb/</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Days later, model legislation of a beverage tax similar to the mayor’s proposal was circulated among the mayor and his top-level staff <a href="https://postimg.org/image/stt5q4svl/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">https://postimg.org/image/stt5q4svl/</a></li></ul></li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; line-height: 26px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Mayor Gonzales misled the public about his intention to impose a beverage tax from the start<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: disc; line-height: 26px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">In response to questions from the Albuquerque Journal spurred by the Rio Grande Foundation, the mayor <a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/872862/soda-tax-sf-mayor-says-measure-on-reducing-sugar-intake-just-seeks-healthier-city.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">directly denied</a> his resolution lays the “groundwork” for a beverage tax, even though internal emails show plans for one were already in the works. <a href="https://postimg.org/image/j57x0mgm7/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">https://postimg.org/image/j57x0mgm7/</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Afterward, the Rio Grande Foundation <a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/reader-view-hey-mayor-hands-off-my-mountain-dew/article_1ad08efa-ef23-5ea9-8439-34d19b484f07.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">warned</a>, “don’t buy the mayor’s claim that his resolution “‘doesn’t lay the groundwork for anything but a healthier community.’ Taxing soda has become an idée fixe for the left’s unsleeping army of lifestyle police.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">While the resolution was in the draft phase, Guillén suggested removing a reference to taxes because it would “fan conspiracy flames.” We now know Rio Grande Foundation wasn’t chasing a conspiracy after all. <a href="https://postimg.org/image/48w2zmt0j/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">https://postimg.org/image/48w2zmt0j/</a></li></ul></li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; line-height: 26px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">After his masquerade was rejected, Mayor Gonzales did an about-face: From public health to revenue<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: disc; line-height: 26px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Gonzales initially <a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/872862/soda-tax-sf-mayor-says-measure-on-reducing-sugar-intake-just-seeks-healthier-city.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>, “This is a public health issue and all we’re doing with this resolution is asking our community experts, the Santa Fe Food Policy Council, to study the issue and come back to us with some options… Once they do that, we’ll take a look at what they recommend, have our discussion and then decide what we do or do not support.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Gonzales’ community experts determined that “education is key” to reducing sugar intake and “imposing additional taxes [soda tax] would be the worst thing they can do.” <a href="https://postimg.org/image/scykdu3m9/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">https://postimg.org/image/scykdu3m9/</a> (<a href="http://www.santafefoodpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/SFFPC-minutes-10-27-16.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">full minutes</a>)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Gonzales ignored their advice and <a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/887057/mayor-wants-soda-tax-to-support-early-education.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">announced his tax scheme</a> two weeks later.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">In an apparently retreat from his concern about sugar consumption, he claimed to support the beverage tax “[a]fter determining that small increases in property or gross receipts taxes wouldn’t raise enough” revenue.</li></ul></li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; line-height: 26px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">The mayor’s plan is built around a faulty economic premise<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: disc; line-height: 26px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Mayor Gonzales said because his proposed tax is not a sales tax, prices for consumers won’t increase. The mayor doesn’t understand a basic economic principle: Businesses don’t pay taxes, people do.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">In Philadelphia, where a similar tax took effect on January 1, “consumers appear to be <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2017/01/10/philly-soda-tax-beverage-tax-trickle-down-economic.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">bearing</a> the full brunt” and some “are <a href="http://www.nbc26.com/news/national/philadelphias-new-soda-tax-causing-sticker-shock" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">stupefied</a> at the increased cost.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></ul></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Mayor Gonzales’ assertion that his soda tax will bring in $10 million annually is a fantasy<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: disc; line-height: 26px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">A $.02 per ounce soda tax hike in is projected to bring in only $3.8 million each year in Boulder, Colorado, even though it is twice the rate of the Santa Fe proposal and Boulder is a more populous city.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Soft drink consumption in the United States has been on the decline for years, making beverage taxes an “unreliable and unsustainable revenue source,” <a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/city-leaders-push-soda-tax-to-fund-early-childhood-education/article_871ab9c1-f8ec-58e2-9bae-f58d505a1d35.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">according</a> to the American Beverage Association.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">This means revenues will likely need to be shored up year after year with additional taxes, such as the property tax or Gross Receipts Tax increases the mayor also <a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/887057/mayor-wants-soda-tax-to-support-early-education.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">considered</a>.</li></ul></li></ul></div><div>=
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</div><div><div>Paul Gessing became the first full-time President of the Rio Grande Foundation in March of 2006. Since joining the Foundation, Gessing has been a prominent voice for limited government and individual liberties in policy areas including: Constitutional liberties, taxes, health care, education, and transportation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Gessing headed up the lobbying efforts of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) a respected taxpayer-advocacy organization in Washington, DC. He has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, US News & World Reports, The Albuquerque Journal, Barron's and several other major publications. He writes for and appears regularly in media outlets around New Mexico. Paul has also testified in Congress and before a variety of state and local bodies. Paul graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio with a degree in Political Science in 1997 and he received his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Maryland in 2005. Paul is on the Board of New Mexico Connections virtual charter school and the Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy. Paul and his wife Krista were married in October 2007 in Algodones, NM and have two girls, Grace and Katherine. He is active in Toastmasters and, in his spare time, Paul enjoys hiking and walking with the family dogs, playing basketball, golf and traveling.</div><div>
</div><div>Obama’s proposed BLM regulations to increase costs/harm economy</div><div>By Paul Gessing  /  December 7, 2015  /  Opinion  /  No Comments</div><div>
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</div><div>Under the Obama Administration the Bureau of Land Management has become far more difficult for the oil and gas industries to deal with.</div><div>Read More ?</div><div>Medicaid: New Mexico’s runaway train</div><div>By Paul Gessing  /  November 20, 2015  /  Opinion  /  1 Comment</div><div>
</div><div>Watchdog file photo</div><div>Expanding Medicaid leads to a more positive mental state, but doesn’t improve actual health. Medicaid expansion is an incredibly-expensive way to improve the emotional well-being of New Mexico’s poor.</div><div>Read More ?</div><div>Another reason to yell “cut” on New Mexico’s film subsidies</div><div>By Paul Gessing  /  October 15, 2015  /  Opinion  /  3 Comments</div><div>
</div><div>ACTION: A bill offering $300 million in tax perks to entertainment companies receives a lukewarm response.</div><div>Gov. Martinez and the New Mexico Legislature should embrace sound economic principles and stop throwing money at Hollywood’s biggest and wealthiest business.</div><div>Read More ?</div><div>Right to Work boosts job creation</div><div>By Paul Gessing  /  September 16, 2015  /  Opinion  /  3 Comments</div><div>
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</div><div>“Right to work” laws have traditionally been associated with greater job growth, but how did this process work in real time?</div><div>Read More ?</div><div>
</div><div>The Animas Spill and the problem with the EPA</div><div>By Paul Gessing  /  August 24, 2015  /  Opinion  /  No Comments</div><div>
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</div><div>An estimated three million gallons of pollutants spilled into the Animas River after an EPA reclamation project was botched.</div><div>Read More ?</div><div>Food stamp work requirements hardly onerous</div><div>By Paul Gessing  /  August 10, 2015  /  Opinion  /  No Comments</div><div>
</div><div>foodstamp1</div><div>By Paul Gessing | Watchdog Opinion Since 2009, New Mexico has waived federal work requirements tied to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. Over 21 percent of all New Mexicans receive food stamps, leaving us behind only Mississippi. Gov. Susana Martinez’ Administration has proposed to reinstate rules limiting able-bodied people – […]</div><div>
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</div><div>Paul Gessing became the first full-time President of the Rio Grande Foundation in March of 2006. Since joining the Foundation, Gessing has been a prominent voice for limited government and individual liberties in policy areas including: Constitutional liberties, taxes, health care, education, and transportation.<h2 class="long-biography" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.03em; clear: both;">BIOGRAPHY</h2><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: 25.7143px;">He has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, US News & World Reports, The Albuquerque Journal  and several other major publications. He writes for and appears regularly in media outlets around New Mexico. Paul has also testified in Congress and before a variety of state and local bodies.Paul graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio with a degree in Political Science in 1997 and he received his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Maryland in 2005.</div><div><a href="https://www.americanactionforum.org/about/">https://www.americanactionforum.org/about/</a></div><div>=</div><div>LI</div><div>
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</div><div>Monica Youngblood</div><div>NM State Representative, District 68</div><div>
</div><div>James Franko</div><div>Vice President and Policy Director at Kansas Policy Institute</div><div>
</div><div>George Lovato, Jr.</div><div>Merchant Banker/Corporate Finance Consultant, Author/Lecturer and Show Host</div><div>
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Budget. Revenue: $275,575. Expenses: $220,734 (FYE December 2014). Website, www.riograndefoundation.org. The Rio Grande Foundation is a non-partisan economic policy think tank in Albuquerque, New ...</a></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rc" data-hveid="46" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/author/pgessing/" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Paul Gessing | Errors of Enchantment</a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 42em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f kv SWb" style="height: 17px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><cite class="Rm" style="font-style: normal;">www.errorsofenchantment.com/author/pgessing/</cite><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 0px 3px; vertical-align: middle; -webkit-user-select: none;"><a class="Fmb ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=paul+gessing&oq=paul+gessing&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.20624j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b3" aria-label="Result details" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="0ahUKEwjHjo-zjoXOAhUM92MKHcWBB38Q7B0IMDAD" style="border-radius: 0px; 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