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In this file photo, the House gallery sits empty. at the Roundhouse. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
SANTA FE The resignation of Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton amid a criminal investigation shook up Democrats in the state House last week.
But now the race is on to replace her as majority leader, the second-highest post in the House, just under Speaker Brian Egolf of Santa Fe.
At least three Albuquerque Democrats Reps. Miguel P. Garcia, Javier Martinez and Elizabeth Thomson are running to replace Stapleton as majority leader.
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Martinez, chairman of the House Taxation and Revenue Committee, has been at the center of some of the biggest legislative debates in recent years.