“New Mexico in Focus” to air on KNME-TV, channel 5, on Friday, June 6 at 7 p.m.
With the conclusion of the New Mexico primary season on Tuesday, June 3, the stage is now set for the 2008 general election. The Democratic and Republican candidates have been selected and will face off for the plethora of open seats available in New Mexico this year.
This week KNME’s “New Mexico in Focus” will look back at the New Mexico primary election and visit with U.S. Senate candidate and Democrat Tom Udall as he prepares to face Republican hopeful Steve Pearce to replace longtime outgoing New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici. “New Mexico in Focus” will air on KNME-TV, channel 5, on Friday, June 6 at 7 p.m.
Co-hosted by David Alire Garcia, managing editor, New Mexico Independent, and Albuquerque Journal columnist Gene Grant, “New Mexico In Focus” takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic, health, education and arts issues and explores them in-depth, with a critical eye to give them context beyond the "news of the moment."
This week’s episode will include a complete wrap-up of the day at the primary polls, which included some surprising results at the end of the day. Alire Garcia gets reaction to the election from Lt. Governor Diane Denish, Democratic Party Chairman Brian Colon and Republican Party Chairman Allen Weh. After, Alire Garcia sits down with Udall to discuss his run for Domenici’s United States Senate seat.
Then, guest panelist Michael Coleman, Washington, D.C. reporter for the Albuquerque Journal, will join co-host Gene Grant and regular panelists Margaret Montoya from the UNM School of Law and UNM School of Medicine, Scott Darnell, Communications Director for the Republican Party of New Mexico, and Jim Scarantino, columnist for the Weekly Alibi to analyze the key rDavid Brookshire in the 2008 election, including the Udall-Steve Pearce contest for U.S. Senate
The producer of “New Mexico In Focus” is Kevin McDonald. Closed Captioning of “New Mexico in Focus” has been made possible by a gift from Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs.
Media Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1812; e-mail: etodd@knme.org