2022 NM Governor's race: on Crime


Rebecca Dow: Fire bad cops but don't eliminate qualified immunity

I support eliminating any protections that keep bad police officers on the job. Let's protect the good law enforcement officers and encourage the bad ones to move along. Eliminating qualified immunity however will make it impossible to hire and retain qualified law enforcement officers.
Source: Albuquerque Journal on 2022 New Mexico Gubernatorial race Sep 23, 2021

Michelle Lujan-Grisham: Millions invested in police departments

Ronchetti mentioned the rising crime in the state. He pledged New Mexico can do better regarding crime and education by choosing "a different path."

To the topic of rising crime in New Mexico, Ronchetti brought up the "soft on crime" approach the state has taken with some offenders. Also mentioned there are "10% less" state police officers than when Lujan Grisham entered office four years ago.

Lujan Grisham cited millions invested in police departments and other resources at their disposal now. The governor also brought up GOP actions that plagued the state budget.

Ronchetti rebutted with discussing the FBI raid of over 1 million fentanyl pills and went on to state that criminals are here due to the laxed policing.

Source: KOAT-7 Action News on 2022 New Mexico Gubernatorial race Oct 17, 2022

Mark Ronchetti: State has been soft on crime with some offenders

Ronchetti mentioned the rising crime in the state. He pledged New Mexico can do better regarding crime and education by choosing "a different path."

To the topic of rising crime in New Mexico, Ronchetti brought up the "soft on crime" approach the state has taken with some offenders. Also mentioned there are "10% less" state police officers than when Lujan Grisham entered office four years ago.

Lujan Grisham cited millions invested in police departments and other resources at their disposal now. The governor also brought up GOP actions that plagued the state budget.

Ronchetti rebutted with discussing the FBI raid of over 1 million fentanyl pills and went on to state that criminals are here due to the laxed policing.

Source: KOAT-7 Action News on 2022 New Mexico Gubernatorial race Oct 17, 2022

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Candidates and political leaders on Crime:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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