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StephanieDubois

(22 posts)
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 09:50 PM Aug 2022

Need Help to Stop Otero County Shenanigans

Hello fellow DUers,

Recently, Otero County Commission held a propaganda meeting at a local performing arts theater that was filmed by a professional crew and live streamed on the right leaning video site, Rumble, and I was there in person for all five and a half hours of it. It was a complete circus. Citizens were cut off by the Clements numerous times, and refused their right to address their government because all of their speaking time was used up by actual screaming matches.

David Clements had a temper tantrum so awful, he called for the County Clerk to resign even though she has followed every letter of the law and has been running our elections for years without any complaints until the Big Lie was started in 2020. She left the auditorium in tears.

The Clements, with NMAF, who were hired by the county as volunteers to do an audit on the 2020 election put on a presentation that lasted three hours, most of it referencing the Clements work in other states or counties instead of focusing on what they found locally. The presentation had lots of mandates from God mentions as well.

We need to put a stop to this kind of grifting at the lowest level of government. The Clements manipulate local government officials to push their agenda in an effort to eventually take voter suppression to a national level. All three of the county commissioners voted to spend an estimated $100,000 on a lawsuit against the NM Secretary of State, pushed by the Clements. They told the county attorney that he was spineless for not wanting to file a frivolous lawsuit.

David Clements, an attorney himself, then went on to attack citizens on his social media the following day. Here he is mentioning fellow DUer, duhneece, on his Facebook page, in an effort to have his followers harass her because she filed a complaint to the state bar for his blatant disregard of the law.



My opponent for district 2 commissioner, Amy Barela, was also at this meeting and spoke out in support of the Big Lie. If she is elected, she will continue along the same path as Couy Griffin, both of them handpicked by Republican leadership in the county. Amy and Couy are very good friends, and the voter suppression down here in Otero will continue if she wins.

We need your help down here. As the Democratic candidate to fill Couy Griffin’s seat, we need help getting the word out that I will not be allowing the county to get grifted, wasting thousands of tax payer’s dollars on an issue that was proven false numerous times in many courts of law around the country. I will be sharing my ActBlue donations with Gabe Vasquez, who is running against Rep. Yvette Herrell (who voted to not certify the 2020 election) and Sharonlee Cummins who is running against John Block for NM House Dist. 51. Block attends most of the anti-choice meetings and Big Lie meetings, giving his support for the fraudit, as we call it, and even agreeing that the 2022 primary election wasn’t valid, even though he won against the incumbent.

Please consider donating to our combined campaign to stop these fringe far right fascists from taking over.

Thank you,

Stephanie Dubois, Candidate for Otero County Commission District 2
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dufordubois22
#BringSanityBackToOtero

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Need Help to Stop Otero County Shenanigans (Original Post) StephanieDubois Aug 2022 OP
Welcome to DU Stephanie leftieNanner Aug 2022 #1
Thank you StephanieDubois Aug 2022 #3
Thank you for attending in person, and having my back duhneece Aug 2022 #2
Wow! Thing about these out of the way meetings is the perps seem to think they won't be noticed.... TreasonousBastard Aug 2022 #4
Thank *you*, Stephanie! K&R crickets Aug 2022 #5

duhneece

(4,112 posts)
2. Thank you for attending in person, and having my back
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:01 PM
Aug 2022

I have made an ‘Attorney Complaint’ with the New Mexico Supreme Court and this grifting monster, David Clements, is calling me out by name in a Special County Commission meeting that I wasn’t attending. That’s intimidation and retaliation.

Husband and I are being extra cautious and I’m glad we have a big dog.

I know there are other national candidates and other big national news, but please consider helping one rural red county turn blue.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
4. Wow! Thing about these out of the way meetings is the perps seem to think they won't be noticed....
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:36 PM
Aug 2022

There seems to be a small town named "Weed" in the county, and the problem seems to be either too much of it or not enough.

Anyway, the county is far enough from Roswell that the craziness is home grown and should be nipped in the bud without driving the Clerk to tears.

"mandates from God" eh. The mandate I remember when religion and government get too close is "render unto Caesar..." which is always forgotten even if it was spoken by the guy they claim to be God.

Hope reason prevails and you win.

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