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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Otero County Chaos & Local Primary Results & Managing Our Dams and Reservoirs | 6.20.22
Description: The Line Opinion Panel dives into the chaos in Otero County where commissioners have been sued and ordered to certify primary election results. Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver has also referred those commissioners to the Attorney General for potential criminal and civil violations of the state’s election code.
The panel also assesses a bipartisan plan to address gun violence that largely relies on the expansion of red flag laws, which already exist here in New Mexico. That plan includes necessary funding to enforce those laws but falls short of demands from gun control advocates. The pl...