Activist to run against Sen. Grubesic in June primary

An activist for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community has announced her candidacy for the New Mexico Senate seat currently held by Democrat John Grubesic of Santa Fe.

Mekah Gordon, a Democrat, will be running against the senator in the June 2008 primary.

Gordon wrote in a recent e-mail to supporters that, as the District 25 senator, she wants to work toward the establishment of a “harassment free, diverse and humanistic educational school system” and will also push for visual and performing arts education in all schools, civil rights and equality, low- and middle-income tax breaks and better health care for the elderly and veterans.

“I have consistently maintained a well documented platform of sensitivity, diversity understanding, civil rights, compassion and mutual respect,” she wrote. “Believing in and supporting my candidacy for New Mexico state senator will reestablish honesty and truth in a political arena seemingly void of such characteristics.”

Gordon is an artist who designs and crafts jewelry and is also a photographer and sculptor. She said she grew up in New York City and has lived in Santa Fe for seven years, moving here after retiring from teaching.

She’s the Santa Fe regional editor for The Normal Heart, a Las Cruces-based LGBT newspaper distributed in New Mexico and West Texas, and is an activist for the LGBT community.

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