Winning the GOP nomination in District 66 is tantamount to winning the November general election since no candidate ran in the district’s Democratic primary.
The June 10 decision came two weeks after 13th District Judge Cindy Mercer of Valencia County issued a preliminary injunction blocking Barela from serving as chair amid her primary campaign for the Republican nomination to seek reelection to the Otero County Commission.
In some churches evangelism has traditionally meant a once-a-year special event or a particular strategy for incorporating newcomers into the life of the church.
In Vasquez’s district, more than half of the oil and gas production that drives about half of the state’s revenue occurs on federal public land leased and managed by the Bureau of Land Management, a subagency of the Department of Interior.