Sandoval County Redistricting 2022
The Health Security Plan for New Mexicans
All New Mexicans deserve quality healthcare By Ann E. Kepley, Precinct 132 Chair, DPSC All New Mexicans deserve a home- grown health care system that reflects our unique healthcare needs. New Mexicans deserve an affordable plan that provides coordinated preventive...
Last Week’s Columns are Just Mansplaining
This letter to the editor appeared in the Dec. 26, 2021, issue of the Rio Rancho Observer Dear Editor, On last week’s editorial page of the Rio Rancho Observer, one of the newspaper’s reporters explained what the Democratic Party of Sandoval County needs to do to win...
Republican Commissioners Vote for Gerrymandered Map
Democratic Party of Sandoval CountyContact: Alexandria Piland, Chair 505-350-6590 chair@sandovaldemocrats.org For Immediate Release Dec. 10, 2021 Rio Rancho --The Sandoval County Commission's Republicans showed their true colors at last...
No to Republican Gerrymandering
Last week’s editorial condemned the Democrats’ principled opposition to Rod Adair’s radically gerrymandered redistricting maps, declaring it to be a “fiction” based on “inaccurate narratives.” The Observer claims it is illogical to object to packing Native Americans...
County Commissioner Advances the Safety and Well-Being of County Residents . . . and Our Pets
By Katherine Bruch, Sandoval County Commissioner, District 1 I took office on January 1, 2019, and hit the ground running by sponsoring a resolution in support of state legislation to fund spay and neuter programs. Since that time, I have worked hard for the residents...
Proposed Plans for County Disrespects Native Americans
Democratic Party of Sandoval CountyContact: Alexandria Piland, Chair505-350-6590chair@sandovaldemocrats.orgFor Immediate Release Nov. 25, 2021 By Isaac Chavez, Vice-Chair, Democratic Party of Sandoval County At the Sandoval County Commission Meeting of November 18,...
Sneaky Shenanigans in Sandoval County Redistricting
County Commissioners engage in political shenanigans Bert Coxe of Corrales on Nov. 19 wrote a comment piece published in The Paper about the moves by Sandoval County Commissioners to set up pro-Republican gerrymandered commission districts. Original artical appears in...
Republican’s Redistricting Consultant Insults Public Commenters
Media ReleaseDemocratic Party of Sandoval CountyFor Immediate Release Nov. 19, 2021 On November 18, the Sandoval County Commission meeting presented a shameful performance by the Republicans. Their redistricting “expert” presented four different plans, all of which...
Letter Smearing Democrats Was Misleading
Published on November 14, 2021 in the Rio Rancho Observer The letter of Charles Sullivan of Albuquerque in the Rio Rancho Observer of Nov. 7, 2021, disappoints. Some of the presented “facts” have some basis; some have some basis but are used misleadingly; some are...
The Governor’s Many Accomplishments
Published on November 14, 2021 in the Rio Rancho Observer For a variety of historic and geographic reasons, New Mexico struggles to overcome a legacy of poverty, lagging educational achievement and sluggish economic growth. Last week’s letter to the editor by Charles...