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After nearly a year of national uproar and calls for action sparked by the murder of George Floyd’s at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, law enforcement reform is on New Mexico’s spring legislative agenda for the 60-day session. “I anticipate at least six or eight bills dealing with police reform this se...
See our entire countdown of top stories, to date, here. After a long battle that caused some long-time state lawmakers to lose their seats, the state Senate shifted left in 2020. Long-time state Senators John Arthur Smith in SD 35; President Pro Tem Mary Kay Papen in SD 38; Clemente Sanchez in SD 30; Richard Martinez in SD 5 and incumbent Gabriel “Gabe” Ramos in SD 28 all lost their seats to progressive Democrats in the June primary election. Of the progressive Democrats who won the primary: Neomi Martinez-Para against Smith; Carrie Hamblen against Papen; Pam Cordova against Sanchez; Leo ...
.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... The ink had not yet dried on our Nov. 3 general election ballot when Speaker of the House Brian Egolf made a public statement declaring that the upcoming redistricting process would probably redraw the boundaries in the Second Congressional District, which Congresswoman-elect Yvette Herrell quite handily won. Egolf concluded that after redistricting, it remains to be seen if Republicans can hold th...