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When state Rep. Melanie Stansbury found herself in distant second place after the first round of voting by the Democratic Party’s state central committee, she started to work the phones.
Melanie Stansbury
“Whether you are running a race where you’ve got hundreds of thousands of constituents you are trying to reach out to, or 200 (party officials) … at the end of the day, really, politics is about having conversations about the issues you care about,” she said.
Twenty-four hours later, Stansbury staged a come-from-behind victory and was tapped as the Democratic candidate for the upcoming special election to fill New Mexico’s vacant seat in Congress.
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Albuquerque State Rep. Melanie Stansbury emerged from a two-day, two-round process to become the Democratic nominee for the 1st Congressional District special election in June.
Stansbury narrowly defeated State Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, also from Albuquerque, in the second round, with 103 votes from the party’s central committee members in the 1st Congressional District to Sedillo Lopez’s 97 votes. One member abstained.
Sedillo Lopez had the most votes in the first round, but failed to reach 50 percent. The party then went to a runoff between the candidates with the fewest number of candidates to reach 50 percent of votes in this case, two.