Stuff you need to know, 8.25.23

“A look at Rep. Gabe Vasquez’s $10M in earmarks for 2024”
by Danielle Prokop, Source NM
August 17, 2023

Democrat Vasquez, who represents New Mexico Congressional District 2, called the projects to which he chose to allocate the funds a “statement of values” for the district. His 2024 opponent, Republican Yvette Herrell, did not request any funding for the district when she held the Congressional seat in 2021 and 2022 because of her opposition to earmarks.

Click on the above link to read this free-access report. It contains a clickable map identifying the recipients and amounts of Vasquez’s 15 re-grants.

CORRECTION: Debora Nicoll, who covers county government for the Citizen, has reported that the Sierra County Regional Dispatch Authority is NOT the recipient of the regrant for a new emergency operations center. Sierra County government is the recipient of the funding for a proposed new center, to be built in Truth or Consequences to “ensure first responders are coordinated in response to any disasters or large-scale emergencies.”

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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  1. CORRECTION: Debora Nicoll, who covers county government for the Citizen, has reported that the Sierra County Regional Dispatch Authority is NOT the recipient of the regrant for a new emergency operations center. Sierra County government is the recipient of the funding for a proposed new center, to be built in Truth or Consequences to “ensure first responders are coordinated in response to any disasters or large-scale emergencies.”

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