Defend Our NM House Majority
House Republicans
Need to be Held Accountable!
New Mexico stands at a crossroads, and the choices we make in our state House races will shape our future. Democratic candidates are relentlessly focused on:
helping working and middle-class New Mexicans afford housing, healthcare, food, and everyday necessities,
ensuring that every New Mexican has access to affordable, quality healthcare — expanding coverage, lowering out-of-pocket costs, and recruiting and retaining doctors, and
making every New Mexican feel safe by deterring violent crime, addressing mental health and addiction as a root cause of crime, and strengthening law enforcement capacity.
These priorities reflect the values of most New Mexicans. Republicans aligned with Donald Trump have too often pushed agendas that threaten these protections: rolling back rights, undermining public institutions, and prioritizing national culture-war fights over the everyday needs of our communities.
New Mexico deserves leaders focused on solving real problems — lack of affordable housing, expensive and inaccessible health care, scarcity of economic opportunity, and under-performing schools — not leaders importing bitterly divisive politics from Washington.
Many House Republican incumbents in New Mexico are out of step with the values of their constituents… our beloved Land of Enchantment deserves better. They must be held accountable!
(if you don’t believe us, complete documentation is available through each district link)
GOP INCUMBENTS AT ODDS WITH THEIR COMMUNITIES
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Alan Martínez
HD 23
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Rebecca dow
HD 38
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Luis Terrazas
HD 39
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Catherine Cullen
HD 57
Top Democratic Challengers
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Elise Falanga Taylor
HD 23
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David Mooney
HD 38
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Raul Turrieta
HD 39
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Chriselle Martínez
HD 57
Republican Incumbent - HD23
Alan Martínez
1) Alan Martinez voted to make it easier for violent domestic abusers to keep their guns.
2) Alan Martínez voted to put doctors and nurses who perform abortions in jail.
3) If Alan Martinez had his way, Rio Rancho residents would have no food, housing or health care. He has voted against every single annual appropriations bill since taking office, including:
a. Last year, Martinez was one of only nine House members to vote against $162 million in emergency state funds to ensure nearly 460,000 New Mexicans continued to receive SNAP food benefits when the Trump administration withheld federal funding.
c. Over his time in office, Martinez has voted against billions of dollars in funding for affordable housing, public safety, education investments, behavioral health care, and more.
4) Alan Martínez votes against both universal child care and earned family and medical leave.
5) Alan Martinez doesn’t care about the struggles New Mexicans are facing. He voted against the eliminating income taxes for qualifying working families, and slashing taxes on 300,000 New Mexicans, and he opposes any minimum wage at all.
Republican Incumbent -HD38
Rebecca Dow
Additional information and supporting documents coming soon!
1) Dow has taken money from supporters of Project Jupiter and the proposed Socorro Data Center. She supports these big tech projects that will suck up whatever little water and electricity is left in southern New Mexico, and she opposes regulating them to protect our water.
3) Rebecca Dow claims to be a childcare expert and advocate — yet her own childcare center failed to conduct legally-required background checks, racking up 14 violations in 2024 alone, including falsifying staff certificates. She jeopardized the safety of children in her care further by hiring and promoting a convicted child molester.
Example #1: [text from dowrecord.com, archived]
Dow was sued by a victim’s family after their child was sexually assaulted by one of Dow’s employees. Dow promoted the man and put him in charge of overnights with children, even AFTER one child complained about his lewd conduct. The case settled for $260,000.
As the founder and director of a taxpayer-funded daycare and Boys and Girls Club, Rebecca Dow was responsible for the welfare of children. One of Dow’s employees was accused of lewd conduct with a child [when he questioned a 13-year-old girl about her sex life, and was given a written warning]. Dow didn’t fire him. Instead, she promoted him. And put him in charge of children at overnight sleepovers.
The man molested two children at the overnight sleepovers.
Dow then tried to bully the victim’s family. The parents reported that Rebecca Dow tried to cover up the scandal by pressuring the family not to sue. Dow was worried about the impact the assault would have on her political career, according to the lawsuit.
But the victims didn’t back down to Dow’s pressure. They sued Dow and her organizations. And received a settlement of $260,000.
Example #2:
AFTER the incident in example #1, Dow continued to allow the employee to supervise children. Two months later, that employee forced a 13-year-old boy to perform oral sex on him. He was charged with three separate felony counts:
Criminal Sexual Penetration
Criminal Sexual Contact of a Minor
False Imprisonment.
Because the crime occurred on her organization’s premises, while the victim was in the care of her program, Dow was subpoenaed to appear at trial.
Ultimately, the employee pleaded guilty, was convicted, and imprisoned.
Example #3:
A lawsuit against Dow’s early childhood center alleged that an adolescent girl was sexually abused by a youth minister on a weekly basis for three years on the premises of AppleTree Educational Center, and Dow is specifically named in the lawsuit, which charged negligence on the part of her organization. On information and belief, the lawsuit was recently settled, but the terms of the settlement are under seal.
Example #4:
Rebecca Dow was fined numerous times for failing to conduct required background checks for employees she hired in her child development center—even after one of those employees sexually assaulted children in her care.
a.) Documents from the NM Children, Youth & Families Department (CYFD) and NM Public Education Department (PED) reveal that AppleTree was guilty of multiple violations, some of which were serious enough to warrant monetary fines. Numerous citations resulted in $3,000 fines, including two for leaving children unattended either on a bus or a playground, while another involved allowing kids to nap behind bookshelves, among other violations.
b.) Additional complaints involved staff failure to respond appropriately to “sexual perpetration by a child toward another child.”
4) Rebecca Dow’s AppleTree center has received more than $7 million in state contracts — about $5 million after she took office — and the State Ethics Commission found that she violated the Governmental Conduct Act and abused the public trust for private gain by securing lucrative contracts without competitive bidding.
Example #1:
The State Ethics Commission found that she violated the law by failing to disclose required information on her financial disclosures while her nonprofit AppleTree raked in 25 state contracts worth $5 million.
The complaint that led to the decision alleged that Dow was in violation for “misrepresenting herself as not being a legislator in order to receive contracts with state agencies,” “securing contracts without proper procurement process/competitive bid,” and “failing to disclose required information on annual Financial Disclosure statements” in “pursuit of private interests and abuse of public trust.”
5) Dow is a roadblock for state improvements, time and time again, voting against solutions to critical problems facing our state.
a) While New Mexicans are struggling, Rebecca Dow wants to raise taxes in New Mexico on gas and every single thing you buy at the grocery store, which would mean higher taxes on milk, meat, vegetables, fruit, and tortillas.
Rebecca Dow voted for higher gas taxes.
Rebecca Dow supports increasing the food and gas tax. Read the statement she made at a candidate forum. – (Grant County Beat; 9/29/2020)
Rebecca Dow was laying the groundwork for a per-mile driver tax. This tax would obviously hurt those living in rural areas the most.
In 2017, Dow said she could support the reinstatement of the food tax over an increase in corporate taxes, saying the poor are protected via EBT cards. The Santa Fe archbishop called the food tax “unacceptable.”
b) She voted against recruiting doctors to areas that need them, against lowering energy costs for working families, and against funding a mental health and substance abuse lifeline to save lives.
Republican Incumbent - HD 39
Luis Terrazas
1) Luis Terrazas lines up with Donald Trump and ICE every chance he gets. He voted to let local police hand New Mexicans’ information to ICE agents, voted to allow ICE agents at our polling places, and voted to block voters from casting ballots during declared emergencies.
2) Luis Terrazas sides with insurance companies, not hard-working New Mexicans. He voted:
against bipartisan legislation to help families on Medicaid.
against reducing insurance costs;
3) Luis Terrazas voted against a bill that would help cities and towns combat overdoses from drugs like Fentanyl.
Terrazas opposed the bill despite a 32-percent increase in overdose deaths in 2020 and a staggering 1,594-percent rise in overdose deaths related to synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, since 2015.
4) Luis Terrazas voted against funding for schools serving low-income students while sponsoring a private school voucher bill which would reduce funding for public schools.
5) Luis Terrazas served on the WNMU Foundation board and defended corrupt WNMU President Joseph Shepard, who spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on lavish decorations, first-class plane tickets, a $900 hair dryer, and more. Shepard also gave Terrazas a $1,000 campaign contribution.
Republican Incumbent - HD 57
Catherine Cullen
1) Catherine Cullen gave a cushy taxpayer-funded job to one of her largest campaign contributors.
2) Catherine Cullen voted against efforts to bring more doctors and nurses to New Mexico, against lowering prescription drug costs, against protecting rural hospitals, and she voted to support private mergers that reduce health care access for New Mexicans.
3) Catherine Cullen voted to cut food assistance (SNAP) benefits for seniors and people with disabilities.
The same vote also rejected $17 million to keep marketplace health insurance premiums affordable after federal subsidies lapsed, $50 million to support rural healthcare providers facing Medicaid cuts, and $30 million for food assistance, including food pantries and continued SNAP benefits for elderly New Mexicans and those with disabilities.
4) Catherine Cullen has taken thousands of dollars from special-interest lobbyists and corporations while voting against lower costs and expanding access to health care.
5) Catherine Cullen sides with the extreme elements of the Republican Party, not the moderate ones. She received a glowing endorsement from an anti-abortion group and is close to Donald Trump’s MAGA buddies.
