Article Launched: 01/24/2008 06:27:22 PM MST
ALBUQUERQUE—Rep. Tom Udall, who has been criticized by his opponents in the U.S. Senate race for supporting a bill that sharply cut funding to Los Alamos National Laboratory, assured lab workers that he would fight for the lab's future.
Udall, D-N.M., made the remarks Thursday in a town hall speech at the northern New Mexico nuclear weapons. The lab is in Udall's congressional district.
"I stand staunchly behind the men and women of LANL and will continue to work in every way and in every aspect to ensure that the future of the lab—rather than the status quo—is protected," Udall said, according to a transcript released after the speech.
A Udall spokeswoman said lab officials barred reporters from attending the speech, which was delivered in a secure area of the lab and broadcast to employees via an internal video network.
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It was an extremely small audience. The questions were very good. The answers were very lame.
ReplyDeleteIf this man becomes our next New Mexico Senator, this state and the lab are in very big trouble.
Yep just another prick pretending to care about LANL. Any bets that he and Mikey compared notes as to who is f-ing over LANL the most and who is getting the most $$$$?
ReplyDeleteThat was not Senate caliber material you saw up front on the NSSB stage today. It wasn't even Congressional caliber. How Tom Udall ever got elected to Congress is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteHe spent the whole first part of his talk given a pathetic mea culpa about his NNSA budget vote.
This man appears to be completely clueless about LANL and has no idea how to effectively assist us through a transformative process.
Received a flyer in the mail today from a local Los Alamos RE agent. It had a graph that showed median home prices in LA County peaked at about $315 K in Dec '06 (about 6 months after the LANS transition). Since that high point, prices made a steep decline. As of Sep '07 the median was standing at about $255 K.
ReplyDeleteThat's a drop of about 20% over the last year and a half. It puts us in the same home loss league as states like California and Florida, and I doubt we've seen the end to the price declines. However, LA County didn't participate in the wild upswing in prices that these states experienced. Therefore, our 20% decline is even more painful.
The number of homes sold in LA County during '07 equals the same number sold back during the RIF of '95. However, back in '95 LANL had a much smaller workforce than today.
In summary, Los Alamos is currently going through a difficult period for housing. Any additional RIFs in either FY09 or FY10 will only make this situation much worse. Many home owners who purchased Los Alamos homes during the last few years are paying off mortgages that are significantly upside down.
Udall brings nothing to the game
ReplyDeleteexcept his surname.
He was inept as State's Attorney and continues to be inept.
And, he is dishonest.
Gee this sounds like what George Miller said at LLNL's last talk, " Transition is over, but change is not" and we must enbrace change." For those of us that are left we will embrace those changes and move this lab forward. Could you all please give ULM a big hug tomorrow morning.
ReplyDeleteThe colorful lies flowed from Udall's mouth like molten ribbon candy from an extrusion machine. He is ready to lead!
ReplyDeleteInteresting housing data, 12:25 AM. Yes, housing in Los Alamos is looking very bad. Any layoffs at LANL could lead to a bunch of home foreclosures given the conditions of this market.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed that some homes which were taken off the market at the end of the summer have been placed back on the market. It appears that some sellers are hoping for a post-SSP boom in which to unload their homes before the news turns ugly in FY09.
Here's another realtor's take on the LA housing market. Grim, grim, grim.
ReplyDeleteDuh. It helps to ctrl-V the URL:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.homes-la.com/histstat.htm
From that RE link...
ReplyDelete"The Los Alamos real-estate market can be considered a very favorable market for buyers."
Favorable, that is, until the moment you buy. At that point the tables are turned and the situation becomes extremely unfavorable for the new home owner.
Any layoffs during the next few years could send a buyer hurdling towards bankruptcy and foreclosure. No thanks, I think I'll pass on buying a home in Los Alamos.
Foreclosures are already out there.
ReplyDeleteJust google foreclosure los alamos
Oh my God, you're right! The Foreclosure.net site currently shows 5 homes listed for foreclosure in Los Alamos County with most of them having a listed value of around $235 K. Wow!
ReplyDeleteUdall is not fighting for the lab's future. He's running scared fighting for his own future as a dried-up, has-been, Senator wannabe.
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