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Profile: House Appropriations & Finance Committee Chair; Legislative Finance Committee Vice Chair Patty Lundstrom - 6:11 am
Rep. Patty Lundstrom, D-Gallup, takes the oath of office on the House floor on the first day of the 2021 legislative session. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
By DANIEL J. CHACÓN
An overnight success? Hardly. Her first venture failed miserably.
“We were broke at the end of it,” the Gallup Democrat, now 60, recalled in a recent interview. “We had to close up shop two weeks early.”
But the experience operating a concession stand at the government-owned swimming pool in the village of Milan, where she grew up proved valuable for the ambitious self-starter. Looking back, she said it offered lessons that helped shape her.
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Patricia A Lundstrum, D-Gallup, takes her oath of office on the house floor during the first day of the legislative session on Tuesday, January 19, 2021.
At 16, state Rep. Patty Lundstrom started her own business.
An overnight success? Hardly. Her first venture failed miserably.
“We were broke at the end of it,” the Gallup Democrat, now 60, recalled in a recent interview. “We had to close up shop two weeks early.”
But the experience operating a concession stand at the government-owned swimming pool in the village of Milan, where she grew up proved valuable for the ambitious self-starter. Looking back, she said it offered lessons that helped shape her.
December 18, 2020
Almost as soon as the news came out that President-elect Joe Biden chose Deb Haaland as his choice to head the Interior Department, attention turned to what would happen to the 1st Congressional District seat.
If Haaland is confirmed to the cabinet-level position and resigns from the U.S. House, it would trigger a special election for her replacement.
At the time of a vacancy, the Secretary of State would order a special election to be held between 77 and 91 days after the vacancy occurs. There would be no primary, instead the state central committees of the major parties would choose their nominees.