From
Capitol Report New Mexico - Yesterday (Jan. 10) we wrote how longtime state rep
Sheryl Williams Stapleton is getting a challenger in the Democratic primary this year. Today, we talked with the woman who admits she’s got an uphill battle to unseat Stapleton, who has represented District 19 in southeast Albuquerque for the last 17 years.
Cara Valente-Compton is a 43-year-old UNM law student who’s married with four kids at home and while she still hasn’t officially announced her candidacy, she told
Capitol Report New Mexico that she’s already met with ward and precinct officials and hosted a meeting with 25 neighborhood activists. “My strategy is to knock on every single door in the district,” Valente-Compton said during a telephone interview. Last month, Stapleton drew national attention when she angrily accused a Republican colleague during a lunchbreak in a committee meeting of
“carrying the Mexican’s water on the fourth floor,” referring to Republican Gov.
Susana Martinez, whose offices are located on the fourth floor of the state capitol building. Stapleton later apologized but refused to step down as Democratic House Majority Whip. Did the Stapleton outburst play into Valente-Compton’s decision to run? “Of course it did,” Valente-Compton said, “but it’s not the primary reason why I’ve decided to run. But we do have to elevate the tone in Santa Fe … we’re professional people and we have to treat others, and those we disagree with, with respect …. I was raised by Republicans, you have to honor and respect them.” But Valente-Compton is not a conservative Democrat. “I’m a liberal Democrat,” Valente-Compton said and a glance at
some of the posts on her Facebook page confirms that.
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Cara Valente-Compton: “I want to elevate the tone”
From the El Paso Times - By Daniel Borunda - Six people have been killed in three separate shootings in an uptick in violence in Juárez today, Chihuahua state police said. Police said that in the first incident, a man and a woman died at a hospital after being shot this morning in the Independencia Sur area of the city. The victims had not been identified. At about 12:30 p.m., two unidentified men and a woman were shot to death in the patio of an abandoned building in the Salvacar area. Investigators collected 14 bullet casings from two types of firearms, police said. A little more than 12 minutes later, a man was shot to death on a street in La Huerta area, police said. Thirty-seven people have been killed in Juárez this year, including a police commander killed Tuesday in downtown Juárez. Read more
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