0001|                     HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 3
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SPECIAL
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0003|     SESSION, 1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                       RAYMOND G. SANCHEZ
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0010|     
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0011|                        A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0012|     REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO ISSUE AND
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0013|     PROCLAIM THAT THE QUESTION OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO BE "RED OR
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0014|     GREEN?".
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0015|     
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0016|       WHEREAS, the forty-second legislature by near unanimous
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0017|     action adopted House Bill 716, which proposed an official state
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0018|     question of "Red or Green?"; and
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0019|       WHEREAS, it is of significant financial gain and national
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0020|     and international recognition to the state of New Mexico to make
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0021|     the official question asked in our state "Red or Green?"; and
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0022|       WHEREAS, New Mexico is recognized as the state of "firsts"
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0023|     and would be the only state to adopt an official state question;
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0024|     and
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0025|       WHEREAS, tourists are attracted to New Mexico because of
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0001|     its rich cultural heritage and enchantment and quickly learn the
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0002|     importance of the question "Red or Green?"; and
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0003|       WHEREAS, all New Mexicans recognize the importance of chile
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0004|     to our culture and rich heritage and understand that all New
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0005|     Mexicans prefer either Red or Green;
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0006|       WHEREAS, New Mexico is the only state in the union in which
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0007|     the question is asked, and New Mexico, therefore, would move to
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0008|     the forefront in being recognized as the only state that takes
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0009|     its choice of Red or Green chile seriously;
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0010|       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0011|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the governor and the secretary of state
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0012|     be requested to issue and proclaim that the official question of
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0013|     the state of New Mexico be "Red or Green?".
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0014|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be sent
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0015|     to the governor and secretary of state.
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