State Senate Candidate David Pyne Addresses Grassroots Republican Activists and Meets with Veterans

David Pyne for State Senate

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State Senate Candidate David Pyne Addresses Grassroots Republican Activists and Meets with Veterans at Military Coalition Luncheon

Last Friday, State Senate Candidate David Pyne joined Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White and a number of other candidates running for Congress as well as state and local office in addressing grassroots Republican activists at the Annual Candidate Forum of the Federated Republican Women (FRW) at the Chamisa Hills Country Club in Rio Rancho. He also addressed the monthly Sandoval County Republican Party meeting along with Congressman Steve Pearce and other candidates the following morning.

After introducing members of his family in the audience at the FRW forum, Pyne described himself as a staunch social and fiscal conservative who would fight to cut taxes, create new jobs, fight illegal immigration and defend family values. Pyne also spoke of his three daughters who he said were enrolled in a ‘failed’ public school and said if the voters elected him to the State Senate he would “fight to improve local control of our schools and increase educational choice to ensure that no child is stigmatized by being forced to attend a ‘failed’ school.” He then addressed his ideas for reforming health care stating that if elected he would fight Governor Bill Richardson’s attempts to pass socialized medicine and would champion free market solutions to make health care more affordable and more available to the 18% of New Mexican citizens who remain uninsured.

Pyne went on to ridicule leading Democrat presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama saying they were running on the kind of change that “would return us to the failed Clinton-era policies of the past which were resoundingly rejected by the voters in the 1994 elections.” During his remarks at the San Bern FRW candidate forum, Pyne said he was running to bring change to Santa Fe and pledged to join with other Republican leaders throughout the state to fight to build a new Republican majority in the state legislature which he noted has been controlled by the Democrats for the past 78 years. He concluded with a rallying cry for Republicans to put aside any differences they had on the issues to unite to defeat Democrats running at all levels in November. Pyne was interrupted by repeated applause and appeared to get the most enthusiastic response from the audience of any of the candidates.

Later the next day, Pyne met with veterans and current and former military leaders at the Military Coalition Luncheon at the Marriott Albuquerque hotel. Pyne described how he was serving on the US Army headquarters staff working two miles from the Pentagon when it was attacked on September 11, 2001. “As a former US Army officer, I have been a lifelong supporter of our military and our brave men and women in uniform and I strongly support our troops in harm’s way in the Middle East.” Pyne said his next scheduled major campaign event will be to address the Albuquerque FRW forum on January 24th from 2-4pm at the Tanoan Country Club along with other Republican candidates.