0001|                        HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 2
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          DELORES C. WRIGHT
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0009|     
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THE NEW MEXICO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER
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0012|     INCREASING THE NUMBER OF ARMED GUARDS AT THE STATE CAPITOL
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0013|     DURING THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND EMPLOYING ARMED GUARDS
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0014|     DURING THE INTERIM.
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0015|     
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0016|          WHEREAS, extremists have targeted public buildings for
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0017|     assault in order to express their violent political goals; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, such extremists blew up a federal government
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0019|     building in Oklahoma City, killing almost two hundred innocent
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0020|     people in the process; and
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0021|          WHEREAS, bomb threats directed at New Mexico's state
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0022|     capitol have been received by local authorities; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, a visiting legislator's purse was snatched on
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0024|     the capitol grounds in the fall of 1995; and
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0025|          WHEREAS, the capitol has been the target of graffiti
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0001|     vandals;
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0002|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0003|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the New Mexico legislative council
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0004|     consider increasing the number of armed guards during the
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0005|     legislative session and employing armed guards during the
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0006|     interim; and
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0007|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0008|     transmitted to the co-chairmen of the New Mexico legislative
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0009|     council and to the director of the legislative council
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0010|     service.
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