Eric Griego
Template:TOCnestleft Eric Griego is a State Senator from New Mexico.
Activism
In 2001 Eric Griego was elected to the Albuquerque City Council where he co-sponsored and helped pass and implement an increase in the minimum wage, one of the nation’s first local public financing for elections system and the city’s most progressive planning document in its history. As a State Senator from 2008-2012 Eric championed progressive tax reform, green jobs and issues affecting the state’s working children and families. For four years, before leaving to run for Congress, he also ran the largest and most active anti-poverty advocacy, research and policy non-profit organization focusing on children and families, New Mexico Voices for Children. He is currently State Director for the New Mexico Working Families Party, a local affiliate of the national Working Families Party organization, which seeks to transform politics by recruiting, supporting and electing grassroots, progressive leaders of color at all levels of government, and enacting progressive policies that prioritize working families. He is currently a Health Policy Fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico’s where his research interests include the connections between economic development, healthy communities and social capital.[1]
Radical fundraiser
Marla Painter and Mark Rudd, Ann Barudin and Ted Barudin, Mary Ellen Capek and Sue Hallgarth, Paul Cohen, Felice Garcia and Tom Jameson, Eric Griego, Neri Holguin, Nicholas Leger and Corine Leger, Alan Marks and Josie Lopez, Ted Martinez, Kay Monaco and Dick Winterbottom, David Rubin and Anna Rutins, David Sanchez and Family, Veronica Sanchez, Victoria Sanchez, Paul Stokes and Laura Stokes
Mark Rudd wrote a personal note to potential fundraiser attendees about his friend Teresa Leger Fernandez:
- Many of us here in Bernalillo County don’t watch what’s happening in the northern congressional district, CD 3. It’s an open seat due to Rep. Ben Ray Lujan’s running for the Senate. By far the best candidate of a crowded and confusing field is our dear friend Teresa Leger Fernandez. Marla and I have known and loved Teresa for years as a member of the Sanchez Family headed by Doña Petra Sanchez here in Albuquerque.
- Teresa has never run for office before, but over the course of her distinguished career as an attorney and as a volunteer she has worked tirelessly on behalf of native tribes, hispanic communities, women, the environment, and all those who are not privileged . She’s a daughter of New Mexico, having grown up in Las Vegas, NM, in a family of educators and political reformers. Teresa has service to New Mexicans in her blood. [2]
PDA Family
Bill Honigman February 13, 2014:
PDA Family :-) — with Terence Dicks, Michael Lighty, Allan Nowakowski, Janis Kay, Eric Griego, Mark Dudzic, Paul Stokes, Russell Freedman, Mimi Kennedy, Walter Kloefkorn, Barbara Njos, Randall Holmes, Phil Lopes, Virginia Hauflaire, Judy Hess, Stephen Spitz, Mary Ellen Marino, Ruth Carter, James Hannley, Tim Carpenter, Conor Boylan, Michael Fox, Russell Greene and Jeanne Marie Dauray.
PDA support
Progressive Democrats of America Northern Arizona June 3, 2012.
PDA with Eric Griego running for Congress in New Mexico.
Supported Progressive Health Care Reform
In late 2009, Eric Griego was one of more than 1,000 state legislators to sign a letter entitled "State Legislators for Progressive Health Care Reform". The letter was a project of the Progressive States Network and was developed in consultation with national health care reform advocates, including the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Community Catalyst, Families USA, Herndon Alliance, National Women's Law Center, Northeast Action, SEIU, and Universal Health Care Action Network. The letter reads in part,[3]
- "Failure to pass national comprehensive health reform now will further jeopardize state and local budgets, undermining public services like education, public safety, and transportation infrastructure... We, the undersigned, call on President Obama and the Congress to enact bold and comprehensive health care reform this year – based on these principles and a strong federal-state collaboration – and pledge our support as state legislators and allies in pursuit of guaranteed, high quality, affordable health care for all."
Board of Directors
SouthWest Organizing Project, as of 2018;[4]
- Samia Assed:Chair
- Alejandría Lyons: Vice-Chair
- Ilsa Garduno:Treasurer
- Janelle Astorga-Ramos: Secretary
- Eric Griego: Board Member
- Ingrid Ordonez: Board Member
- Karlos Gauna Schmieder: Board Member