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I am a lifelong Republican. My commitment to this party has never been about blind loyalty to its leadership 鈥� it has always been about the values that drew me to it in the first place. Which is why what I am about to describe troubles me deeply.

The Republican Party of Bernalillo County is broken. The evidence is hiding in plain sight, filed with the New Mexico Secretary of State's Office for anyone willing to look.

Let's start with the most egregious example. House District 27 has two qualified Republican candidates in a primary race: Robert Godshall and Jahnelle Garcia. In a primary, the county party's job is simple 鈥� stay out of it. Let Republican voters decide. That is not only common sense, it is written explicitly into the Republican Party of New Mexico's own Uniform State Rules, which prohibit party money from being used to aid one Republican primary candidate over another.

RPBC ignored that rule entirely. On April 1, the Republican Party of Bernalillo County donated $500 to Godshall's campaign. Garcia received nothing. The donation is documented in official campaign finance filings with the secretary of state. The note on the expenditure reads, simply, "Thanks for running."

Thanks for running 鈥� to one candidate. Silence to the other.

This would be troubling enough on its own. But Robert Godshall's record makes the county party's judgment not just questionable 鈥� it's indefensible. He has run against Democrats three times and lost three times. Anyone who has heard him speak understands why 鈥� it is cringeworthy. It is genuinely baffling that the county party, with donor money and a straight face, is backing a three-time loser over a fresh candidate. If RPBC gets its way and Godshall wins the primary, Republicans in HD-27 should brace themselves for an entirely predictable outcome: a fourth loss.

This raises a serious question about the intelligence and judgment of RPBC leadership. Are they trying to win, or are they simply comfortable losing while maintaining control of who gets to lose?

The financial irregularities don't stop there. RPBC's latest campaign finance filing also shows a donation to a candidate outside Bernalillo County. There are also contributions that raise questions about whether party money is being directed appropriately. For an organization that is supposed to be building Republican strength in Bernalillo County, it is worth asking who is minding the store.

This pattern of ignoring rules extends beyond the county level. The Republican Party of New Mexico's own rules require that when a party officer files as a candidate and faces a fellow Republican in a primary, they must immediately vacate their party office. RPNM Chair Amy Barela is running for Otero County commissioner District 2 and has a Republican primary opponent. She has not stepped down. The rule could not be clearer. The disregard for it could not be more obvious.

The RPBC has presided over consistent electoral failure in Bernalillo County while being more interested in playing favorites than in building a winning coalition. Garcia deserves a fair primary decided by Republican voters 鈥� not by a county party that has already placed its bet on a candidate with a proven record of losing. Republican voters in HD-27 deserve better. Frankly, all Republican voters in Bernalillo County deserve better.

If Republican leadership cannot follow its own rules, cannot manage its own finances responsibly and insists on repeatedly backing candidates who cannot win, then it is not serving Republican voters. It is failing them.

It is time for that to change.

Douglas Michel was the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government's 2021 Dixon First Amendment Freedom Award recipient in the citizen category. He is a lifelong Republican residing in Bernalillo County.

Editor鈥檚 note: The author鈥檚 name has been corrected.