New Website Helps NM Voters Send a Message to Martinez

CWA launched a new website for New Mexico residents to urge Gov. Susana Martinez to sign the Corporate Fair Tax Bill, SB9.

At www.OhSusana.org, New Mexico residents can send a message to Martinez, calling on her to sign the bill. Martinez has until March 7 to sign or veto the legislation.

The bi-partisan legislation requires multi-state stores doing business in the state to pay their fair share of taxes. It also lowers taxes for homegrown businesses. New Mexico is the only western state to operate under an imbalanced tax structure which allows corporations to avoid paying taxes. This tax loophole forces small businesses to compete with out-of-state "big box stores" while paying higher tax rates than the out-of-state stores.

"Governor Susana Martinez has the opportunity to stand with hundreds of thousands of New Mexico small business owners and workers and put the interests of New Mexico above those of corporate lobbyists," said Miles Conway, who heads CWA's NM legislative-political action team. CWA and a coalition of progressive groups and unions led the fight for tax fairness in New Mexico.