Our broader community filled the Las Cruces Convention Center and took full advantage of the opportunity to address a menagerie of concerns, support and grievances.
A Las Cruces Digest Report (Photo: Courtesy)
The scheduled town hall meeting began around 15 minutes late.
While community input ranged widely in specific, and often personal, details of perceived shortcomings in public safety, one overarching theme knit the evening together–public safety is personal. The often pointed and emotional appeals to the Governor did not fall on deaf ears. Governor Lujan Grisham sat in the hot seat and fielded every comment for hours past the scheduled end time. Not every response was politically perfect–but every request for help was met with a seemingly honest attempt to leverage the full weight of New Mexico’s executive apparatus to address each and every one.
The wide ranging discussion moved from street lights in las colonias to personal experiences with homelessness, and fingers were pointed in every direction over the course of the night. The Governor concluded her livestream at 11:25 PM.
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