[CedarDave]

He goes onto to say El Paso would contribute another university and medical school, the military would be represented by Fort Bliss. Trade would increase with additional ports of entry. An additional 700,000 people would give NM another congressional seat. Culture would include El Paso’s vibrant downtown and the Cincinnati Entertainment district near UTEP. The Franklin Mountains State Park would give us another outdoor recreation area.

All very tongue-in-cheek. However, he missed how the time zone could change. The southeast New Mexico workforce is already on Texas-time with the work day starting at 7:00 to coordinate with other oil field activity in the Permian Basin and oil company headquarters in Houston and Dallas. Like New Mexico, El Paso is already in the Mountain Time zone, unlike the rest of Texas.

(The comment about the Sandia Mountains refers to the current attempt by Sandia Pueblo to exert additional and complete control over 10,000 acres from the US Forest Service agreed to in the 2003 T’uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Act. The act said the land would remain with the USFS, but that the Sandia Pueblo trust act recognized and protected the Pueblo of Sandia’s rights and interests of the area as well as the public’s longstanding use and enjoyment of the area which has been maintained by the Forest Service. The Pueblo asserts the Forest Service has been negligent in protecting the area and wants control.)

[CedarDave]

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[Dr. Sivana]

I welcome a readonable counter offer from the other side. On most state issues, we are okay with kefties choking on their own vomit. Red gets redder, blue gets bluer. This is something that is actually doable if it becomes a movement.

[Night Hides Not]

It may have been tongue in cheek, but here's the ender in my opinion: I'll never forget the opening line to the Marty Robbins song "El Paso":

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

New Mexico has become so lib infested that the Eastern Counties should all join in with Texas. Arizona could claim the Western counties as so much of Arizona has blown over into NM for centuries, leaving NM with just Santa Fe as a lib infested hole in the mid top. It could be joined to Colorado which has become so CALIFORNICATED they are no longer the beautiful states I lived in while young.