Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Teresa Leger Fernandez
Teresa Leger Fernandez is the incum- bent U.S. Representative in Congress for New Mexico’s Third Congressional District. Leger Fernandez, a Democrat, is seeking her second term in the House of Representatives.
Q: Why are you the candidate to vote for?
A: I listen and then deliver. I secured $177 million for the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Project, pushed U.S. Department of Agriculture to compensate dairy farmers for PFAS contamination, and brought $600,000 to Roosevelt General Hospital. If I’m re-elected, I’ll continue to listen to the people of eastern New Mexico and work tirelessly to address their needs.
Q: Do you support the work of the January 6 Committee?
A: The bipartisan committee, and the mostly Republican witnesses, demonstrated that the January 6th insurrection was a premeditated assault on our democracy. We have a solemn obligation to strengthen our democracy for future generations of Americans. The committee’s work led to improvements in the Electoral Count Act. Healing starts with accountability.
Q: Do you think more emphasis should be placed on oil production in light of high gasoline prices, or do you think more should be placed on renewable energy?
A: New Mexico is blessed with abundant natural resources including oil, gas, solar, and wind that provide thousands of hard-working New Mexicans with good-paying jobs. New Mexico can be an energy industry leader, and we should also grow our economy by investing in innovative renewable technologies.
Q: What are the issues in the 3rd Congressional district?
A: Water, housing, behavioral health, health care, infrastructure, expanding our economic base, inflation and education. We addressed many of these in the historic bills I helped pass, and I am working on bringing the funds directly into our district to create opportunity for every community -- for our families, ranches and businesses.
Q: What is the purpose of government?
A: Jeremiah 29:11 tells us that God’s plan is for us to prosper, have hope and a future. My job in Congress is to help create that prosperity, hope and future for the New Mexico we all love by creating opportunity and investing in hard-working New Mexico families.
— Compiled by Steve Hansen of the Staff of The News
Alexis Martinez Johnson
Alexis Martinez Johnson is the Republican challenger in the recently redistricted Third Congressional District, which is now as far west as the Arizona state line, north to the Colorado state line, east to Oklahoma and Texas and as far south as Artesia and Hobbs.
Johnson was born in Portales, lived in Roswell and now lives in Santa Fe. She is married and has four children.
Johnson attended Vanderbilt University and New Mexico Tech.
Q: Why are you the candidate to vote for?
A: I bring engineering and economic experience to the position; we need both of those in New Mexico for opportunity.
I’m running because I know I can do an amazing job on bringing down the prices we pay at the pump and at the grocery store and a reduction of illegal drugs over our southern border.
Q: Do you support the work of the January 6 Committee?
A: I think it’s a distraction.
We can’t afford goods right now, our communities are unsafe.
We need opportunity now, not arguing about a previous presidency.
The Biden administration is two years deep.
When will the Biden administration take responsibility for inflation and the unsafe border?
Q: Do you think more emphasis should be placed on oil production in light of high gasoline prices, or do you think more should be placed on renewable energy?
A: We need to maximize the production of reliable clean New Mexico energy.
I support processing drilling permits in New Mexico because we have the highest environmental standards in the world.
Biden should really be going to Hobbs and Artesia instead of Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.
Q: What are the issues in the 3rd Congressional district?
A: The most pressing issue is opportunity.
If we are not safe financially or in our communities there is no opportunity.
We have to protect public safety domestically and internationally, instead of sending extreme amounts of money to Ukraine we need to secure this southern border from illegal activity.
Q: What is the purpose of government?
A: The purpose of government is to represent the people’s voice. To make sure people are safe.
Those are common good situations: Your ambulance, your firefighters, your police officers.
We pay taxes for infrastructure and safety.
Other than that we don’t need 87,000 IRS agents as my opponent voted for.
— Compiled by Grant McGee of the Staff of The News
