SANTA FE – It’s not easy to miss Mark Moores.
The three-term Republican state senator cuts an imposing physical figure and is known at the Roundhouse as a gregarious and vocal legislator with a penchant for leading the singing of the University of New Mexico fight song on the Senate floor.
But the former UNM football player faces a quest for voter visibility as the Republican nominee for a vacant Albuquerque-area congressional seat that will be filled in a June 1 special election.
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A Republican has not won the 1st Congressional District seat since Heather Wilson narrowly defeated Democrat Patricia Madrid in 2006.