Bulletin report
Las Cruces City Councilor Gabe Vasquez was officially there during a ceremony on Saturday afternoon, September 18, as a candidate for Congress in the Second Congressional District of New Mexico, which includes Las Cruces and the entire southern part of the state.
Acting US MP Yvette Herrell, RN.M., “is doing her best to demonize black and brown people,” said Vasquez at the event. Herrell, he said, “cannot be the future of this community. I refuse to let them represent them for this district without a fight. “
Vasquez will run for the seat in the US House of Representatives in the Democratic primary election on June 7, 2022. The general election is on November 8, 2022.
Vasquez, 36, was elected to the city council in 2017. He announced earlier this year that he will not see re-election to the city council.
Vasquez is from El Paso and is the project leader for the Western Conservation Foundation. He is a first generation Mexican American whose parents were migrant workers. Vasquez grew up in Juarez and El Paso and has lived in Las Cruces since 2002. In 2008 he graduated from New Mexico State University with a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in journalism and public relations.
His professional experience includes working as the business editor of the Las Cruces Bulletin, as the executive director of the Hispano Chamber of Commerce de Las Cruces, as the vice president of public relations for a local manufacturer of medical monitoring devices, and as an advisor to US Senator Martin Heinrich, DN.M. Vasquez also worked in Washington, DC, as a communications director and public policy expert for a non-partisan children’s charity.
The September 18 event was attended by Doña Ana County Commissioners Manuel Sanchez and Shannon Reynolds; County Clerk Amanda Lopez Askin and County Clerk Chief Deputy Lindsey Bachman; Councilors Kassandra Gandara, Johana Bencomo and Tessa Abeyta-Stuve; State Rep. Angelica Rubio and State Sen. Carrie Hamblen, both Las Cruces Democrats.
If elected to Congress, Vasquez said his priorities will include immigration reform, raising wages for the working class, fighting climate change, and increasing funding for childcare and education.
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