State Senators sit in the New Mexico Senate, which is the upper house of the New Mexico Legislature. Senators introduce and vote on proposed laws, serve on legislative committees, and participate in hearings, floor debates, fact-finding, and investigations. They also must approve or reject many appointments made by the Governor, and may assist constituents with issues and problems the constituents have with government agencies within New Mexico. Term: Four years; no term limits.
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Before graduating from UNM School of Law in 2005, I earned a bachelor's degree in American Legal History from UC Berkeley, but it was actually my technology skills that landed me a career in the burgeoning telecom industry in the 80’s and 90’s. During that time, I built and led high-functioning teams domestically and abroad. I hit an inflection point when I saw the legal system wrongfully wielded against a family member. My sense of duty and my commitment to justice led me to leave my tech career and become a lawyer so that I could defend my family and other people who may experience injustice within our system.
Rural New Mexicans are hurting. Wages aren’t keeping up with costs and jobs are getting harder to find. Getting a doctor’s appointment gets harder every year, and our schools continue to struggle. As your State Senator, I’ll bring the needs of our community to Santa Fe and I’ll bring my colleagues from both parties together to make sure that we can provide for our families, that we can get the healthcare we need, that our children get world-class educations, and there are good jobs waiting for them when they graduate.
First and foremost, we cannot allow data centers to steal precious and scarce water from our families, our communities, and our farms. Once we’ve made that law, we need to look at a comprehensive approach to the problem. We must work to reduce water waste, improve water collection and retention, and we must be innovative in our long-term solutions. I will fight for investments in desalination, improved treatment of wastewater for re-use, and to protect New Mexico water from Texas and anyone else who wants what we cannot afford to give away.
New Mexicans are being betrayed and dragged into data center construction without proper vetting, public input, and transparency. This must be stopped immediately. We desperately need good jobs, but we don’t have to choose between them and water or affordable electricity. The corporations behind these projects and the politicians who support them know that, and I’ll fight to hold them accountable. All economic development should consider the impact on communities, jobs, water, utilities, and the environment. We then must look at the long-term cost-benefit analysis of these investments.
I applaud the recent efforts to expand access, like medical compacts, the new UNM Medical School, and tax incentives for providers, particularly for rural providers, but they are not enough. We need to hold private equity companies accountable when they prioritize profits over the needs of our communities. We need to join more compacts, so long as they don’t expose our providers to other states’ misguided laws. We need to expand tax incentives and student loan relief to include more providers. And we need to be creative in attracting and retaining more providers. Finally, if private companies won’t open more hospitals, we should explore state owned facilities in rural New Mexico.
