Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits, and Citizens

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“Completely honest and highly informative. To take a look at a legislative body is to observe democracy in the raw―with all its diverse characters and influences and its many conflicts, compromises, and achievements. Dede Feldman, a first-rate observer and chronicler, shows us the insides of the New Mexico State Senate.”―Fred Harris, former U.S. Senator and professor emeritus of political science, University of New Mexico

Elected to New Mexico’s state senate in 1996, Dede Feldman faced the challenges that confront state legislators around the country along side some that are uniquely New Mexican. In this forthright account of the workings of New Mexico’s legislature, she reveals how the work of governing is in truth accomplished.

In New Mexico’s part-time citizen legislature, Spanish could also be spoken in the halls of the capitol as ceaselessly as English, and Native American issues are ceaselessly pivotal. But each and every year the Land of Enchantment’s legislators, like those in other states, should balance revenues and expenditures, tangle with lobbyists, and struggle with redistricting and campaign finance reform. State legislatures’ approaches to air pollution, under the influence of alcohol driving, and chronic disease, Feldman’s book reveals, find their way into national law after they’ve been road tested at the highways of quite a lot of states.

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