Big Endorsement for U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce

Date: May 27, 2014

SANTA FE, N.M, May 27, 2014—Congressman Steve Pearce received an important endorsement today from the association representing one of the nation’s most potent voting blocs.
“We support the candidates who support small business, and Congressman Pearce has a stellar, 100-percent voting record for Main Street this Congress,” said Minda McGonagle, New Mexico state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, America’s Voice of Small Business. “It bears reminding everyone that small businesses employ the majority of working Americans, generate almost all new jobs, but have distinctly different difficulties in remaining solvent than big businesses do.”
The endorsement for the re-election of Pearce (2nd District) was made by NFIB’s SAFE (Save America’s Free Enterprise) Trust, the association’s political action committee, and is  based on positions regarding key small-business issues so far in this Congress, such as health care, taxes, and labor and regulations.
Brief, single-pages of bulleted information on the power of the small-business vote, what a small business is and the distinctions it has from a big business can be found here.
America’s largest small-business association, the National Federation of Independent Business, has almost 1,500 dues-paying members in New Mexico. “Small businesses significantly impact New Mexico’s economy,” reports the Office of Advocacy at the U.S. Small Business Administration. “They represent 95.7 percent of all employers and employ 55.1 percent of the private-sector labor force. Small businesses are crucial to the fiscal condition of the state and numbered 154,597 in 2010.  Most of New Mexico’s small businesses have fewer than 20 employees.”
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For more than 70 years, the National Federation of Independent Business has been the Voice of Small Business, taking the message from Main Street to the halls of Congress and all 50 state legislatures. NFIB annually surveys its members on state and federal issues vital to their survival as America’s economic engine and biggest creator of jobs. NFIB’s educational mission is to remind policymakers that small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses; they have very different challenges and priorities.
National Federation of Independent Business/New Mexico
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