[LWVNM Action] Registering as a lobbyist

[Jo Nash]

Thanks, Akkana!
jo

On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM Akkana Peck via Action <
action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> A couple other things to know about that SOS page where you register as a
> lobbyist:
>
> If you're renewing a registration from last year, you'll find yourself in
> a page that shows LWVNM as an "employer", with instructions to choose
> "Renew" from the Actions, except there aren't any Actions. The trick on
> this page is that it's set up for an impossibly wide monitor, and if your
> browser isn't incredibly wide, the Actions three-dots menu is hidden off to
> the far right. You need to look for the horizontal scrollbar and *scroll
> right* til you see that three-dots Action menu.
>
> If you're new, so you don't have a registration from last year, it will
> ask you all kinds of things about LWVNM like address and phone number. You
> can get those details from our website's Contact page:
> https://www.lwvnm.org/contact.html
>
>         ...Akkana
>
> Akkana Peck writes:
> > Hi, all!
> >
> > At the last Action meeting, Hannah reminded us that we all have to
> register as lobbyists for the LWVNM. It's free, since we're unpaid
> lobbyists. The link is:
> >
> > https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/
> >
> > In the upper right hand corner, either log in or register. If you
> registered last year, your username to log in is probably your email
> address, though I've heard of at least one case where that didn't work (I'm
> not sure what to do in that case, maybe just register again).
> >
> > Also, I never sent out a summary of the meeting. We decided on four
> priority areas:
> > Elections & Good Government
> > Environment (including water policy)
> > Health care
> > (Oops, I realize now I didn't write down the fourth one, but I think it
> was)
> > Housing
> >
> > That was provisional since not many bills have been filed yet. The list
> isn't official until the state board accepts it next Monday, Jan 13, and if
> any real hot issue immigration bills get filed before then, we could change
> it; but bill pre-filing has been fairly slow so far.
> >
> > Action meetings: we're not having one tomorrow. Too many people can't
> make it, we decided on Wednesday as our weekly meeting day, and in any
> case, not many new bills have been filed since the last meeting.
> >
> > Do we need to meet next Wednesday, Jan 15? I think it depends on how
> many bills have been filed between now and then. If there aren't many, I'm
> not sure we need a meeting. Let's see what the pre-file list looks like on
> Monday.
> >
> > We will definitely have an Action meeting Jan 22, a week from Wednesday,
> the day after the session begins. By then we should have a pretty good
> starter list of bills, and maybe even a few committee assignments.
> >
> >         ...Akkana
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