Susana Martinez was just named one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Guess her abilities and accomplishments are beyond the comprehension and understanding of the locals that continually call SoundOff!

As a former constituent of State Representative Andy Nunez's district, I would like to congratulate him on his appointment to the mayor of Hatch. He has the passion, the commitment and the knowledge to lead the Village of Hatch.

When New Mexico became a state it was officially designated a bilingual state, Spanish and English. So if you come into the state and you don't like it because Spanish is spoken, then you don't belong in the state.

It is a good thing Barbara Couture is gone from NMSU, giving Carruthers a 26 percent raise while his subordinates get nothing. That will be a bad start for any president.

Krauthammer is good at twisting things around. Now he's giving Bush credit for only three people killed in the Boston bombing instead of 3,000 like there was in 9/11.

The Gang of Eight senators crafted the immigration bill behind closed doors. The dirty little secret is amnesty for millions who are in the U.S. illegally. Another secret is the real cost of the bill. It would add millions to our bloated welfare state.

The Republicans plan is to slow down the immigration reform until it dies of old age.

Tell the people of Texas who lost so many to a fertilizer plant explosion that government regulation is not necessary. If regular inspections had been made and there was government leverage to fix them, those people would still be alive today.

Congress and the Senate acted immediately on this air travel that was going to affect them. They wanted to go home in time. But any other time, they just don't care.

So 800,000 jobs were lost every month under Bush's reign and in 96 months that Bush was president, that would total 76,800,000 jobs lost. Really Sun-News, shouldn't you pay a little more attention to these outrageous statements of fact that some of these people call in with?

The Tea Party claims to support American values based on the Bible and in the Constitution. Yet they support defunding food stamps, Medicare, Social Security and food programs for the elderly and poor children. What has happened to Jesus' admonition to care for the poor and the Constitutions preamble to provide for the common good of all the people?

This country does not have a spending problem but a lack of revenue problem. All the spending cuts made by European countries have not worked. They drove unemployment up 25 percent with less revenue and more debt. Job creation creates revenue.

That oil that is coming from Canada, being transported by Keystone Pipeline, is some of the dirtiest fuel on the planet and Steve Pearce is backing it.

This argument that every person should have a gun so they can be in a militia is so absurd that any first-grader can see through it. Where are the militias when we have natural disasters or mass murders? I only see law enforcement and the National Guard.

Republicans did not learn from the Iraq debacle of invading a country because of alleged weapons of mass destruction, only to find none. Now they are chomping at the bit to invade Syria on allegations of sarin gas being used. Obama, unlike Bush, is allowing time for UN investigations to do their job first.