Ken Wright of Bosque writes in about a Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) controversy, where the MRGCD has at times sent out a newsletter prior to an MRGCD election highlighting the accomplishments of certain board members up for reelection:

There is a tradition that diminishes the status of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District.

Prior to each election the district puts out an expensive, color glossy that is expensive to mail. The post offices have their trash cans filled with them after the customers get the item out of their PO box. The district “newsletter” has low credibility and is not often news. When it is used just prior to a board election with some propaganda about chosen incumbents and never mentioning the election, the taxpayers see the value of their taxes diminished. It must be that the MRGCD doesn’t want candidates or most ratepayers involved.

I ask the board to not send out any of this junk mail, particularly till after the election on June 2.

Contact your board member(s) or the main office at 505-247-0234 and ask to end this waste of your funds.

The issue came up at the recent MRGDC meeting in Belen, where Wright publicly asked the board not to send out the newsletter.

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