mailingstate
NM
Occupation
Business Owner
Filing County
Colfax
I am a combat veteran, rancher, husband, father, and small-business owner who has spent my life leading under pressure, solving problems, and being accountable for results. I grew up working in a family business, served as an Army sergeant and instructor, and later built and operated businesses in demanding industries. I am not a career politician. I am running to bring that same work ethic, accessibility, and accountability to District 40: show up, listen, tell the truth, and get the job done.
I would address my highest priorities with urgency, discipline, and measurable action. I will listen directly to constituents and local leaders, identify the problems government can actually solve, and move quickly to introduce or support focused legislation—one issue at a time. I will demand accountability from agencies, track results, and report back to the people I represent. On public safety, education, economic growth, and land stewardship, I will work with anyone willing to produce real results for District 40. I am not going to Santa Fe to occupy a seat. I am going there to work.
New Mexico must treat water as a long-term security issue, not a crisis we address only during drought. I support investing in aging water infrastructure, reducing leaks and waste, improving watershed and forest health, protecting existing water rights, expanding conservation and reuse where practical, and evaluating storage and supply projects based on sound science. I will listen closely to farmers, ranchers, acequia communities, municipalities, tribes, engineers, and water experts. Good water policy must protect both future growth and the people already depending on this resource. Especially now that half of the state floods while the other half hasn't seen water in months.
Large economic development projects should be judged by measurable benefit to New Mexicans, not by the size of the press release. I would look at permanent jobs and wages, taxpayer return, water and energy demands, infrastructure costs, effects on local businesses and housing, environmental responsibility, and whether the project can remain viable without permanent public subsidy. As of yet, that model doesn't exist, and I do not support the current plans. Local communities should have a meaningful voice. If taxpayers are asked to invest, there should be clear performance standards, transparency, and consequences when promised results are not delivered. We have all seen that one before. Fool me once.
Rural New Mexicans should not have to drive hours or wait months for basic care. I support incentives to recruit and retain qualified doctors, nurses, mental-health professionals, dentists, and other providers in underserved communities; stronger rural clinics and EMS; responsible use of telehealth; and reducing administrative burdens that take providers away from patients. I do not support lowering standards to achieve this goal. We should also audit programs for waste, so limited resources reach the people who need them most. Veterans, seniors, children, and working families deserve timely care close to home whenever possible, no matter their party, skin tone, or biological sex.
mailingstate
NM
Occupation
General Manager, Jemez Mountains Electric Coop
Filing County
Rio Arriba
I am now running for my fourth term in the House of Representatives. I have a masters degree in Electrical Engineering as well as my MBA. I have decades of experience in the utility and business industries.
Senior citizens, veterans, opportunity for our citizens, and children continue to be my highest priorities. We need to ensure we fully fund the programs that serve these demographics, while attracting jobs and other opportunity to our state.
We need to look at other options to compliment the fresh water available and move forward with technologies that can help with that.
We need to look at water impacts, and community impacts whether positive or negative.
We need to ensure that we sufficiently fund programs that provide these services, even when the federal government doesn't.
