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Why do the trial lawyers want to control the secretary of state?

Remember the trial lawyer legislators who worked tirelessly to defeat the medical malpractice reform bills last legislative session? Two senators, Katy Duhigg and Chairman Joe Cervantes, are members of the all-powerful Judiciary Committee 鈥� where bills they don鈥檛 like are killed or amended to death.

Well, they seem to be at it again. Only this time they and their trial lawyer buddies are trying to determine the outcome of the New Mexico secretary of state primary race between Katharine Clark and Amanda L贸pez Askin. 

The first clue was a letter to the Santa Fe New Mexican written by trial lawyer David Duhigg, Katy Duhigg鈥檚 brother. He tried to make Clark鈥檚 counting of early and absentee votes and submitting them to the SOS sound somehow nefarious. Clark is hyperefficient. We can use Clark in the SOS office.

I studied L贸pez Askin鈥檚 campaign reports, and at least 19.6% of L贸pez Askin鈥檚 campaign contributions come from trial lawyers. Notably, she received $2,500 from Cervantes, $6,200 from Duhigg, and $8,200 from lawyers at Duhigg鈥檚 law firm.

Why, one might ask, would the trial lawyers care so much who wins the SOS race? 

The trial lawyers have a history of playing fast and loose with campaign disclosure requirements, which the SOS oversees and enforces. Recall last summer, a trial lawyer group (New Mexico Safety Over Profit) was hit with a 73-page lawsuit and fined the maximum $5,000 by the State Ethics Commission for violating disclosure requirements in the Lobbyist Regulation Act. They ran an advertising campaign against medical malpractice reform, spending at least $56,000 without disclosing the sources of their funding.

Fellow voters: Remember that it鈥檚 not how much money a candidate has raised that matters; it鈥檚 who contributed and why.

Ouida MacGregor

Santa Fe

Haaland is speaking directly to voters 

Do Sam Bregman and the Journal Editorial Board (including apparent Bregman mouthpiece Jeff Tucker) remember the 2006 gubernatorial race? During that campaign, then-Gov. Bill Richardson declined to participate in a traditional televised debate with his Republican challenger, John Dendahl. Richardson, who ultimately won reelection by a wide margin, stated he preferred to focus his time on traveling the state to meet directly with voters and outline his record rather than participate in debates.

The Editorial Board鈥檚 decision to blast the Haaland campaign 鈥� coupled with board member Tucker鈥檚 clearly pro-Bregman commentaries 鈥� is off base. Haaland鈥檚 decision to go directly to the people, rather than trying to out-talk a trial lawyer trained in oratory and confrontation, took courage, not fear. It represents integrity, not a "fight or flight" response.

Jeffrey Paul

Albuquerque

Fierce women don鈥檛 hide

The moniker New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland most likes to use to describe herself is 鈥渇ierce.鈥� History is replete with fierce women leaders. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sent the British naval fleet to confront the Argentine generals after they invaded The Falklands in 1982. She defeated them in 10 weeks, and their entire regime collapsed after years of torturing their own people. Angolan Queen Njinga won battles against Portuguese invaders of her African country in the 1630s, scoring one military success after another. These women did not shrink in the face of attacks.

If Jeff Tucker had wrote about Thatcher as he did about Haaland, rather than trying to ban him from a town hall, the prime minister would likely have insisted Tucker attend and ask the first question. Haaland is running to be essentially the CEO of the state of New Mexico, which has an $11 billion budget. Questions about what happened to the more than $1 million she was paid over six years as a member of Congress and Cabinet secretary are fair game. Haaland can prove that reports of her indigency in her 60s are false by putting out comprehensive financial statements or release her tax returns.

People are going to have a hard time believing that she is, indeed, fierce, when she refuses to answer questions at a town hall or debate her opponent. Just show up.

Sherri Burr

Albuquerque

Leadership requires more than a script

One of the main reasons I have been an 近距离内射合集 subscriber since arriving in Albuquerque in 1978 is to stay informed on local and statewide events to better know and understand political candidates and their qualifications for the offices they seek.  Over the years, the Journal has done a good job in keeping me informed, but never more so than in the May 24 Sunday Journal and the lead editorial: "Haaland Town Hall snub part of disturbing pattern.鈥�

Why does gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland refuse to debate her opponents? The editorial gets to the crux of an issue that has bothered me and surely many other New Mexicans: her refusal to participate in forums to voice her platform. Going one-on-one and debating important issues is an integral part of our electoral process and it is clearly apparent that Haaland is more than uncomfortable with the process. This raises questions of her ability to lead our state and effectively engage in the many forums required of the state's leader.

I witnessed her communication problems in congressional hearings when she was a Cabinet secretary; she often failed to answer questions and provide good representation for her organization. There is no reason to believe that she will do any better leading the state.

It was great to see a companion op-ed in the Opinion page by Patricio Serna, a retired chief justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who also made a succinct case for candidate debates and their importance.

As a 30-plus year toastmaster, I have learned the importance of effective communication and it is sad to see our next governor lacks that critical skill. Stay tuned.

Dave Coulie

Albuquerque

Graduation ceremony showed how immigrants improve our country

Immigration has become a dirty word in this country. The president has claimed that immigrants eat cats and dogs, defraud the government, and illegally collect welfare and healthcare. As a result, discrimination against immigrants has increased and opportunities for immigrants and their families to share their talents with America have decreased.

The truth about immigration is quite different. America has always been a nation of immigrants. Other than our Native American fellow citizens, none of our families can claim residency here of more than a few hundred years. Most of us trace our American heritage back only a few generations. The immigration of persons from all over the world has not only brought hard workers and brilliant minds to our country, but also new shops and businesses, rich cultures, arts, literature, food and other benefits.

The value and the benefits of immigration were made evident in the recent graduation ceremonies of the University of New Mexico Medical School. Among the nearly 100 students who were awarded their medical degrees were students from families who had immigrated here from many different countries. Their work as interns helped patients at UNM Hospital heal. While some of these students will leave New Mexico for their residencies, others will stay here and work at New Mexico hospitals or as researchers. In every case, they will help make medicine better and more accessible for all of us.

Congratulations to these graduates. More important, congratulations to the UNM Medical School for ignoring the anti-immigrant frenzy of the political world and providing opportunities for these students to become the doctors our state and nation desperately need, regardless of race, creed, religion or national origin. Our university, our state and our country are better off because of your efforts.

Arthur Flicker

Albuquerque

Business leader wasn鈥檛 the right choice to lead UNM

I did not know whether to laugh or cry at the front-page article about how disappointed the business community is that the University of New Mexico would not consider a business leader as president. The purpose of a business is to make money for the owners and shareholders. The purpose of a university, specifically a state university, is to educate the citizens of the state to join the workforce of the future.

While strong fiscal management of a university is important, the president must understand academia and the resources it takes to educate students in all fields of study to successfully implement sound fiscal policy. The suggestion of putting someone without the proper qualifications in charge of a business would not pass either investor or board review. Yet, somehow it would be OK to put someone who does not understand the internal workings of a university in charge of a university with a budget of approximately $4.2 billion. I am missing the logic here.

Being an educator means you are always looking to the future use of the knowledge your students are gaining. This is not the perspective of today鈥檚 business leaders. They appear to be looking for the quickest outcome, not focused on research, which may take years for an outcome. They may not understand how liberal arts courses, which may appear useless because you do not have jobs in that specific area, influence the thinking of someone who is applying information in teaching or architecture or engineering or nursing or medicine or law or many other fields. Perhaps a business leader would be best suited for chief financial officer, not president.

Marie L Lobo

Professor emerita, UNM College of Nursing

Questions about proposed Socorro data center need answering

As discussions continue regarding Green Data Centers鈥� proposed 2-gigawatt data center project in Socorro, New Mexicans should ask serious questions before embracing what could become one of the largest industrial developments in state history.

I write not as someone opposed to innovation or renewable energy, but as someone with a graduate degree from New Mexico Tech and more than a decade of experience in advanced materials and green technology startups in New Mexico and Silicon Valley. My work has ranged from reactor construction to quality control to laboratory management. I also grew up in Northern Virginia, home to the world鈥檚 largest concentration of data centers, and have seen the strain these facilities place on infrastructure and public resources.

Green Data鈥檚 proposed campus would be among the largest in the 近距离内射合集 States. For comparison, the largest operating data center campus in New Mexico is Meta Platforms Los Lunas Data Center (which is about 120 megawatts). This proposal would be more than 16 times larger.

Projects at this scale are normally built by corporations such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta 鈥� companies with decades of experience, massive engineering teams, and proven infrastructure portfolios. Green Data does not have that kind of demonstrated track record.

My concerns are shaped by experience. Over the years, I have watched companies promise sustainable materials, low-environmental impacts and revolutionary technologies, only to struggle when scaling from laboratory concepts to commercial operations. Processes that work in a limited environment often fail technologically and/or economically at industrial scale. Supply chains collapse. Costs rise. Investors apply pressure. Companies pivot away from their original environmental promises because the green option proves too expensive or impractical.

Extraordinary projects require extraordinary proof. Let's demand it.

Sarah Hendrickson

Socorro