Commentary: The Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter has released its statewide slate of endorsements in one of the most critical elections for the environment New Mexicans have ever faced.
“This year’s election is critical for putting New Mexico back on a path toward clean water, clean energy and thriving wildlife and public lands,” said Rio Grande Chapter Chair David Coss. “Our members are working hard for these candidates, and I urge New Mexicans to vote for them in the November 8 election.”
The chapter sends questionnaires to new candidates, studies records of incumbents, interviews candidates and then requires a two-thirds vote of two chapter committees to endorse. The Rio Grande Sierra Club's winning record derives from a grassroots strategy of activating our members to volunteer for environmental champions and communicating our endorsements through earned and paid media. New Mexicans have demonstrated overwhelmingly that they want office-holders who will improve and protect the natural resources that make our planet liveable, and these candidates will work for those solutions.
Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter endorsements:
(Note: Only contested races are listed. For more about these candidates, see riograndesierraclub.org.)
President
Hillary Clinton
U.S. Congress
District 1: Michelle Lujan Grisham
District 2: Merrie Lee Soules
District 3: Ben Ray Luján
New Mexico Secretary of State
Maggie Toulouse Oliver
New Mexico State Senate
Albuquerque area:
District 9: John Sapien
District 10: David Simon
District 13: Bill O’Neill
District 15: Daniel Ivey-Soto
District 18: Bill Tallman
District 23: Joy Garratt
Valencia and Bernalillo counties:
District 29: Michael Sanchez
Doña Ana County:
District 36: Jeff Steinborn
District 37: William Soules
Eldorado and central/northern New Mexico:
District 39: Liz Stefanics
New Mexico House of Representatives
San Juan County:
District 4: GloJean Todacheene
Albuquerque area:
District 10: Andres Romero
District 15: Ane Romero
District 20: Giovanni Alexander Haqani
District 22: John Wallace
District 23: Daymon Ely
District 24: Elizabeth Thomson
District 29: Ronnie Martinez
District 30: Natalie Figueroa
District 31: Bob Scott
Grant and Sierra counties:
District 38: Mary Hotvedt
Doña Ana County:
District 33: Bill McCamley
District 35: Angelica Rubio
District 36: Nathan Small
District 37: Joanne Ferrary
District 39: Rodolpho Martinez (Doña Ana, Grant and Sierra counties)
Los Alamos area:
District 43: Stephanie Garcia Richard
Santa Fe area:
District 47: Brian Egolf
District 50: Matthew McQueen
Los Alamos County Council:
Peter Sheehey
Sandoval County Commission:
Alexis Jimenez
Grant County Commission:
Alicia Edwards, Marilyn Alcorn, Harry Browne