U.S. Senate candidate and New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver on Monday launched a digital billboard to send a message straight to President Trump along the president’s expected route from the Albuquerque airport to his campaign rally Monday.
“Mr. President,” Toulouse Oliver said in unveiling the billboard, “we don’t want your violence, racism and hatred here in New Mexico. We don’t want your policies that cage children at our borders or your plans to kick millions off their healthcare. And we certainly don’t want your sexist remarks that demean women. Those aren’t New Mexico values.”
Toulouse Oliver, who has twice taken on Trump in the past by refusing to turn over voters’ personal information to the president’s now-disbanded election security commission, said she’s not afraid to talk tough to the president.
“I’m not afraid of Donald Trump,” Toulouse Oliver said, “but he should be afraid of the millions of moms like me who have had enough of his policies of hate. He’s had plenty to say about The Squad in the U.S. House of Representatives; I can’t wait to expand The Squad into the U.S. Senate to undo the damage this president has done.”
Toulouse Oliver further explained that in repurposing the racist insult that Trump had used to attack members of The Squad she wanted to underscore for the president that his policies of hate and racism aren’t the way New Mexicans do things:
“That’s not how we do things here. New Mexicans believe that our diversity is what makes us stronger and that family is the glue that binds. What we are doing at the border is immoral and un-American, which is why I support abolishing ICE.
“New Mexicans fight for our land because we know that it is our sacred responsibility and the legacy we leave to those who occupy these lands next. We believe the only acceptable response to climate change is an urgent one.
“Women are treated as equals and elected to serve in all branches of government. They are held to high standards, just as they expect to be.
“New Mexicans know that we ‘win’ when we realize the humanity inside us, when we help a person in need, or are brave enough to ask for help because we know there will be people to help us, understanding that we are all in this together.”
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