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Take advantage of early voting

With primary election approaching on June 2, we are getting very close to being in the early, in-person voting and absentee, mail-in voting periods. As a poll worker during the last several elections in New Mexico, I have noticed that many voters pass on the opportunity to use either of those much more convenient mechanisms to vote, instead waiting until the last day to do so.

As a result, on Election Day, the polls are crowded, and voters spend a lot of time standing in line waiting to vote. So I urge all voters in Bernalillo County 鈥� vote at any of the numerous Early Voting Convenience Centers in the last two weeks of May, or use mail-in voting to simply vote from home. You will find it to be much easier, quicker and stress-free. Detailed information is accessible at nmvote.org.

Robert Richards

Albuquerque

My support for Haaland is unshaken

Recently, coverage of gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland has not been favorable. In the last 10 days, as the primary for governor heats up, the Journal published a full-page ad from a small, wealthy tribe in California criticizing her record as Interior secretary. Then the paper鈥檚 conservative columnist, Jeff Tucker, lambasted her team for publishing information about the four houses her opponent owns in New Mexico and Texas.

My support for her won鈥檛 change because of that or because she once flew on an airplane chartered by Jeffrey Epstein. This support is rooted in having known her for decades, since she attended the University of New Mexico and I was her writing teacher in beginning and advanced courses. Back then she was a single mom, supporting herself as a small business owner who manufactured salsa from a traditional pueblo recipe.

Today, the contributions she鈥檚 received from New Mexicans come mostly from those giving $100 or less; in-state contributions to her opponent are much larger. That鈥檚 significant. Haaland is deeply embedded in the communities that make New Mexico great. I support her for the same reasons I look to buy eggs and vegetables locally. Her forthcoming autobiography closes with a tasty recipe for Frito pie. How many other politicians are that connected to people鈥檚 struggles to survive in these terribly expensive times?

David Dunaway

Albuquerque

Haaland has a proven track record 

Thanks to Jeff Tucker鈥檚 op-ed, April 21 Journal, we now know where Sam Bregman sits in the scale of Democratic hopefuls for New Mexico governor. Bregman has a following of decidedly conservative voters with his law-and-order appeals.

But let鈥檚 get some perspective. If Haaland was remiss in calling out those responsible for Bregman residence disclosures, Tucker and Bregman are equally irresponsible for taring and feathering Haaland with Epstein鈥檚 and Swalwell鈥檚 criminal behavior for which she bears absolutely no responsibility.

Haaland has the endorsement of Zuni, Jemez, Santo Domingo and Picuris pueblos, and no doubt the backing of many in the Native community who may not share the views of their tribal leadership. New Mexico has the rare opportunity to lead the nation by electing its first Native American woman governor. 

Haaland carries with her a wealth of legislative experience nationally and within the state, and a commitment to give a voice to those of lesser means who have been left out far too often. She has made it abundantly clear she is not beholden to any corporate interests, even with her decision to protect Chaco Canyon, which put her at odds with some of her would-be supporters.

We lost our chance to break through the glass ceiling with Hillary Clinton, another imminently qualified person. Look at what we got as a nation. Haaland  has a perspective and the gumption to take on the establishment and the tenacity to make state government work for all the people and on a multiplicity of issues. We would be remiss by not voting for Haaland.

Christine Gilbertson

Albuquerque

New Mexico Needs Sam Bregman

New Mexico is losing its people. We were one of only five states to lose population last year, and the reasons are the ones we have heard for decades: violent crime and failing schools. Fix those two problems, and everything else follows. Doctors stay. Young professionals put down roots. Companies invest. Military families and veterans make New Mexico their permanent home instead of their next waypoint. Fail, and the exodus continues.

That is why I am supporting Sam Bregman for governor.

Bregman spent more than three decades building one of the most successful legal practices in Albuquerque. He can afford to live anywhere. Instead, he chose to build his life here and, when the state needed it most, set aside that practice to serve as Bernalillo County district attorney. He did not need the job. He took it because this is his home.

The results speak for themselves. When Bregman took office, Albuquerque was coming off back-to-back record years of homicides. In 2025, homicides fell 34%, violent crime overall fell 26%, and auto theft fell 43%. Homicides hit a nine-year low. That is not rhetoric. That is a prosecutor who took a crisis and bent the curve.

New Mexico has the land, the culture, the universities, the national labs and one of the largest military and veteran communities in the West. What it has lacked is a governor who treats public safety and education as the foundation of everything else, rather than as talking points. Bregman has already done the work in Bernalillo County. Let's put him where he can do it for the whole state. He has earned my vote on June 2.

Arslan Umarov

Albuquerque

The duty of a patriot

"You have a republic if you can keep it."

With those words, Ben Franklin told fellow first citizens of this new nation what type of government they had. We have a Constitution and government that are based on liberty for all citizens. In the last almost 240 years since the adoption of that Constitution, we have rightly become more inclusive about who can vote, but the principle remains the same. We have a republic, if we can keep it.

I first heard those words in a ninth grade civics class, as we talked about how we can "keep it." Voting. It was then that I realized that in a constitutional democratic republic, voting is neither a right nor a privilege, but a responsibility of every citizen who has attained the age of 18. To paraphrase Lyndon Johnson: Voting is the duty of a patriot.

But then I met a candidate for governor who told me that our country requires even more from our citizens. Even though I could not vote until 1972, I could still make a difference in 1970. I still remember Jimmy Carter's words to a 15-year-old me. "A teenager who is passionate about a candidate or an issue can have more of an effect on an election than can 100 people who just go out and vote."

How can we keep our republic? Every citizen, regardless of age, does everything they can to make sure our constitutional democratic republic remains a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Vote for what and who you believe will keep our government in the hands of all of the citizens of the 近距离内射合集 States.

J. Kell Morrow

Albuquerque

Assassination would have thrust country into chaos 

It is a great relief that, at the White House Correspondents鈥� Dinner, the president was not felled by yet another shooter. An assassination would have unleashed chaos unlike 鈥� as the chief executive himself would say 鈥� anything the world has ever seen. Given the unimaginable events of Trump鈥檚 second term, one could reasonably imagine imposition of martial law and cancellation of civil liberties.

Given the harms Americans have experienced during this administration 鈥� ICE brutality, kidnappings and unjustified deportations; health insurance subsidies snatched away and Medicaid starved; the ill-conceived initiation of a gratuitous war that has raised the cost of living for everyone and made us no safer 鈥� it is hardly a surprise that the occasional nut job is inspired to act drastically. This is not a happy time in America.

Janet Goldstein

Socorro