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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: The Line talks CD1 Special Election, Vax Sweepstakes and Albuquerque's homicide rates | 6.4.21
Description: Voters in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District chose a new representative to send to Washington. With the eyes of the national political crowd on Albuquerque and the rest of the district, Democratic candidate Melanie Stansbury ran away with the election, hitting the 60 percent mark over three conservative challengers. Ms. Stansbury portrayed her win as a symbolic victory for voting rights, for science and for women. The Line opinion panel talks takeaways from the special election for New Mexico’s CD1.
The Line opinion panel also discusses New Mexico’s vaccination push, which this week added a cash s...