NMGOP "irrelevant"

My home state of South Dakota will suffer brain drain for years to come and New Mexico has its own set of challenges but living where the Republican Party is virtually powerless and Democrats rule is well worth it. 

The kicker? After telling voters they can’t trust the 2020 election results Trump loving NMGOP Chair Steve Pearce blamed poor turnout on people not trusting the election results!

In New Mexico, the words Republican and relevant don’t often end up in the same sentence. What happened to state Rep. Jason Harper is the latest example of why Republicans have become irrelevant in statewide and congressional elections. With U.S. Senate and congressional primaries a year away, Republicans should have been cultivating candidates like Harper. As it stands, the GOP has no one to challenge Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich. After losing every statewide and congressional election last year, New Mexico Republicans reelected Pearce as party chairman. Democrats cheered the news. Their side has had a remarkable run with Pearce leading the GOP. [Milan Simonich]

In a related story, Democratic former US Representative for New Mexico's Second District Xochitl Torres Small is considered a shoo-in for deputy secretary of the US Department of Agriculture. She visited my home state in March and conferred a little socialism on a local meat processor.

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham will serve on the advisory board for the Biden/Harris reelection team. She recently addressed the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she discussed New Mexico's gains in environmental justice and the state's transition to green energy.