New Mexico Governor's response: "give giant multinational corporate chains a monopoly over the market — allowing them to stay open with some limitations while forcing small businesses to close."

Steve Pearce is the Chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party. Here are some of his thoughts he expressed in an interview with Breitbart.

Pearce said Gov. Grisham’s response to the coronavirus has been effectively to give giant multinational corporate chains a monopoly over the market — allowing them to stay open with some limitations while forcing small businesses to close.

“You know I never used to see the kind of cars in my hometown that I see. I was counting yesterday, each row had 25 cars in it,” Pearce said. “You have to park in number 26 and walk all that way in and you’re telling me that’s not congestion that is ripe for passing the disease along.”

“And yet small businesses are starving out,” Pearce said. “More than half of the businesses in New Mexico are small businesses and half of those are owned by women, 25 percent by minorities. So [Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham] is hurting the very groups that are struggling to get economic parity with the rest of the country. It doesn’t make any rational sense.”

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