After Historic Primary Win in New Mexico, Climate Champion Deb Haaland On Track to Be First Native A

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Common Dreams

Published on
Wednesday, June 06, 2018
by Common Dreams



Haaland, who supports defunding ICE, called her win "a victory for working people, a victory for women, and a victory for everyone who has been sidelined by the billionaire class."

by Julia Conley, staff writer



Progressive Deb Haaland won the Democratic primary for New Mexico's 1st congressional district on Tuesday.
(Photo: Deb Haaland for Congress)

As primary results in dozens of races across the nation came in on Wednesday, climate action and immigrant rights groups were among those celebrating former New Mexico Democratic Party leader Deb Haaland's victory in the primary for the state's 1st congressional district.

"Deb Haaland's primary win is a historic victory for the climate movement," said May Boeve, executive director of 350 Action, in a statement. "Deb is the type of climate leader we've yet to see on Capitol Hill. She is inspiring people everywhere with her unapologetic progressive platform to stand up for Indigenous rights and keep fossil fuels in the ground. We need leadership like Deb's in Congress to move us toward a fossil-free world that works for all of us."

Haaland has focused her campaign on progressive causes including fighting against new fossil fuel infrastructure while expanding the use of renewable energy; repealing the Republican Party's tax plan; enforcing a $15 federal minimum wage; defunding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which she calls "an out of control institution that is terrorizing American families"; and establishing Medicare for All.

"Tonight, New Mexico made history," Haaland said after gathering 38.9 percent of the vote on Tuesday evening, winning the primary with an 11 percent margin. The result, she said, was "a victory for working people, a victory for women, and a victory for everyone who has been sidelined by the billionaire class."

Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/06/after-historic-primary-win-new-mexico-climate-champion-deb-haaland-track-be-first

[Magoo48]

1. Great News...

[Judi Lynn]

2. Native Americans Are Flexing Their Political Muscle at Just the Right Time

Paulette Jordan and Debra Haaland are showing us all the way.



Debra Haaland
via the Haaland campaign



BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUN 6, 2018

In at least one small way, this has been a good month for Native Americans, at least as political candidates. In Idaho, Paulette Jordan of the Coeur d’Alene is the Democratic candidate for governor, and she whipped the state’s Democratic establishment on the way. On Tuesday night, in New Mexico, Debra Haaland of the Pueblo Laguna won the Democratic primary in the state’s First Congressional District and now will attempt to succeed in Congress fellow Democrat Michelle Lujan-Graham, who is the Democratic nominee for governor.

If Haaland wins, she will be the first Native American congresswoman in the nation’s history. Her campaign was significant because, among her other positions, Haaland is one of the few candidates running on a platform that would eliminate the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Both Jordan and Haaland are what could be called career politicians; Jordan is in her third term in the Idaho House and Haaland once was chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party. This, to me, anyway, makes them even more attractive candidates. It is no time for amateurs in our politics right now and, god knows, Native Americans have found themselves on the business end of the worst of those politics ever since the rest of us got off the boat. That they are flexing their muscles within the party structure, and at the ballot boxes, is long overdue.

More:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a21100568/native-american-congresswoman-haaland/

[Judi Lynn]

3. New Mexico Moves Closer to Electing the First Native American Congresswoman

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS / AP 9:59 PM EDT

(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — New Mexico, a state with deep historical ties to American Indians whose images and symbols are rooted in everything from the state flag to town names, has moved closer to electing the first Native American woman to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Deb Haaland’s victory Tuesday in a Democratic primary for an open congressional seat encompassing the state’s largest city of Albuquerque had Native Americans from Washington state to Oklahoma celebrating the possibility of a landmark in U.S. political history.

Haaland, a tribal member of the Laguna Pueblo who was born in Winslow, Arizona, defeated a crowded field of mainly Hispanic candidates. It came almost 50 years to the day that Robert F. Kennedy won South Dakota’s Democratic presidential primary thanks to the Native American vote on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Haaland told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she credited her victory to the movement of Native American voting that Kennedy sparked and her 15 years working as an organizer registering such voters.

More:
http://time.com/5303976/new-mexico-deb-haaland-native-american/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fswampland+%28TIME%3A+Politics%29

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread Judi Lynn