DUer duhneece plea for support from a 'Ground Zero for Violence' County (updated at the bottom)

Here’s hoping some of those youths will replace some of those commissioners before long, to start running things fairly. Are any of the young folks that you’ve been mentoring able to assume some level of leadership role in mobilizing other youths?

22, mother of two, identifies LGBTQ+ has connected with national groups, our Democratic Party Chair and has used her connections so we created New Voices Otero with a Facebook page and other social media that’s a hub of local progressives, lgbtq+… but many ARE our future elected officials. They are just now imagining themselves in that role and, seeing that, gives me hope.

Sounds like you’re doing fantastic work!

PS, totally off topic, but have people told you that you have a Reese Witherspoon smile?

I’ll bet one exists. She’s connecting with the right groups here.

Our Combined Campaign with DUer Stephanie DuBois includes our amazing State Rep candidate Sharonlee Cummins, Ms. Cummins is a retired electronics engineer who spent the latter portion of her career as a test manager and project officer for Keane Inc. in Lakewood, CO. Previously working for several great organizations, her decision to go into engineering stemmed from High School and her military background. Enlisting in the U.S. Marines after high school in 1966. Ms. Cummins later earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering equivalent through three different corporations: the Lockheed Missile and Space Corporations, General Dynamics, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Beginning her career as a primary standards laboratory tech, technical publication engineer and an engineering instructor for the Lockheed Missile and Space Corporation in Sunnyvale, CA in 1973 to 1977. Ms. Cummins later worked for General Dynamics as a test engineer from 1980 to 1983, followed by various roles with Interstate Electronics Company, Rockwell International, and Point 4 Data, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as software quality manager (acting) 1987 to 1990, EG&G as a QA engineer and then a training instructor/developer 1990 to 1993, and Keane, Lakewood, Colorado 1998 t0 2001, as project officer and SQA. She also found success as an engineering shop foreman and electronics repair specialist at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, an electronics engineer for the exhibits division of the Latter Day Saints Church and as a customer engineer for IBM General Systems in Orange, CA while managing her full-time career.

Other career related history for Ms. Cummins follows: Computer Specialist, Wilson Electronics, St. George, Utah, 1997, Test Technician, De La Rue – Printrak, Anaheim, California, 1980; Publications Engineer, TRW, NAF Base, San Bernardino, California, 1979; Customer engineer, IBM General Systems, Orange, California, 1979; Technician, Deseret Pharmaceutical, Sandy, Utah, 1978-79; Electronics engineer Exhibits division Latter Day Saints Church, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1978; Electronics repair specialist, Engineering Shop Foreman Weber State College, Ogden, Utah, 1977-78; Technician, Commodore, Cupertino, California, 1972-73; Radio and TV repair tech, Jacksonville, North Carolina, 1969-71; Technician, Engineer Jr., Whittaker Controls-Dynasciences, Chatsworth, California, 1968-69; Assembly, Litton Guidance And Controls, Van Nuys, California, 1968; Assembly and Test Technician, Cannon Electronics (C&S Elect), North Hollywood, California, 1968. Furthermore- Ms. Cummins authored a six volume "Description and Maintenance" manual, 6 volumes in 1975 and "Software Quality Assurance Plan" in 1989.
Other business history for Ms. Cummins follows: Owner/Operator of a retail store, Dubois, Wyoming, 1993-97; and Owner/operator ranch, Fortine, Montana, 2003-2016.

Active in her community, Ms. Cummins was involved with the San Fernando Search and Rescue Team in California as both a volunteer and instructor during the late 1960s. She later served as an instructor of emergency preparedness and survival in Claremont, CA, between 1982 and 1984 and in Modesto. CA, in 1989. Ms. Cummins volunteered with the Employees Emergency Volunteers for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1987 to 1990, on the EG&G Rocky Flats Emergency Support Team from 1990 to 1993 and with the Dubois Search and Rescue from 1995 to 1997. She was elected to the Dubois City Council. Camp Host Curry County, Boice Cope Park Campground, Langlois, Oregon, 2016-2018

Ms. Cummins enlisted in the United States Marine Corps after graduation in 1966 and served between 1966 and 1967 and re-enlisted in 1982 between and served until 1987. She completed her service in the Marines as a Sgt. She is a life member in the Marine Corps League, Marine Corps Association, Women Marine Association (WMA), and the American Legion. She is a longtime member of the American Society of Quality (ASQ), the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE), American Association For The Advancement Of Science (AAAS), Association For Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP), Society For Creative Anachronism (SCA), Eastern Starr. and is a majority member of Job's Daughters. She is also life with the National Rifle Association and the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association.

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Get Out The Vote

We need all the support we can get down here in Otero. The resolution passed by the county is the district 2 commissioner, Couy Griffin's, lame duck attempt to keep himself in the news. The resolution passed by the city was a political stunt to promote the GOP candidate for district 51 and as a precursor to 3 of the city commission members reelections early in 2023.
We need to stop this wasteful spending of tax payer dollars for these meetings that the public has consistently participated in against the resolutions. As a county commissioner I will be able to do this at the county level. Sharonlee Cummins will be able to make sure her opponent doesn't keep trying to block healthcare at the state level.
I was proud to attend the city meeting and participate in the rally on Saturday, and even got to give Couy Griffin a piece of my mind face to face, and I look forward to fighting against the oppression with our younger generation.

"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico today sent letters to the Alamogordo City Commission and the Otero County Commission reiterating that resolutions opposing the provision of abortion care have no force of law in our state. The letters were sent in response to a recently-passed resolution in Otero County and pending resolutions placed on the agenda tonight by the Alamogordo City Commission seeking to denounce and potentially restrict legal access to abortion care.

Despite the harmful U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs decision stripping away the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion care at the federal level, abortion remains safe and legal in New Mexico.

Any attempts to enforce these resolutions would be in violation of the New Mexico constitution as well as state law, and any attempts to enforce any anti-abortion resolution or passage of an ordinance restricting the fundamental reproductive rights of New Mexicans would be immediately challenged in court by the ACLU of New Mexico...These resolutions are unenforceable and spread confusion about access to abortion for those seeking quality reproductive health care in our state. Not to mention they are a waste of taxpayer resources in communities that already lack access to healthcare. To be clear: Any attempts to enforce these resolutions would violate New Mexico’s constitution and state law. The ACLU of New Mexico stands ready to defend New Mexicans’ right to abortion and all reproductive health care in every corner of our state.”


https://www.aclu-nm.org/en/press-releases/aclu-new-mexico-responds-anti-abortion-resolutions-alamogordo-and-otero-county

... for Democrats to stay vocal in red areas. Only then can they attract other Dems and maybe, one day, achieve a critical mass. And everyone needs to keep hearing the right things!!! THANK YOU!!!

For certain, at least in my mind's eye, I AM seeing that our hanging in there, speaking up, running for office is paying off. And we have done that with support from my DU family...and inspiration to run, first put in my head by Omaha Steve.

We are seeing younger people attend, get involved...but news on this month's county agenda is putting me back in fetal position as our County doubles down on Gideon/fascist new rules, privatizing management of our jail, more...but that's for next week.

OS

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