Posted on 09/12/2010 9:48:57 PM PDT by CedarDave
Susana Martinez was a cheerleader and member of the Rangerette drill team at El Paso's Riverside High School.
But when a group of seniors running for student council asked her to join their slate of candidates, she took a pass. "I told them I don't want to be (council) secretary," Martinez recalled, noting that it was the only slot still open on the ticket.
Martinez studied the job descriptions and decided she'd rather be student body president. So she ran against the candidate whose ticket tried to enlist her. And she won.
The Democrat-turned-Republican has already risen to national prominence as the first Hispanic woman in the country to be nominated for governor by a major party. She has made a national list of "The Next Top Women to Watch in Politics." She wooed crowds alongside Sarah Palin in Albuquerque and got a plug on the Laura Ingraham radio show.
Martinez, 51, has raised her political horizons as she faces Lt. Gov. Diane Denish in the Nov. 2 general election.
Her résumé is long on government work — in fact, being a state prosecutor and children's court lawyer have been her only jobs, save for the few years she worked for her father's private security firm in El Paso.
She has modest roots, as the youngest child and "latchkey" kid of Hispanic parents who worked full-time jobs and at one time kept a lock on the freezer to ensure the food supply didn't run out.
That she is ambitious is a given. "Any Democrat who underestimates her is a fool, and they're asking for trouble," said Larry Allred, an attorney with the federal Public Defender's Office in Las Cruces, where Martinez serves as district attorney in the state's 3rd Judicial District.
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A leopard may not change its spots, but I certainly know people who have changed their minds. I was pretty liberal when I was younger - I didn't understand how the world worked. I know better now. One thing I always had was a sense of right and wrong. The more liberal those around me got, the less they seemed to make sense and the more they had to twist reality to justify their actions as being "right." Somehow, I just knew they were wrong.
Thanks. That is the ad. Hilarious and almost bizarre. The Dem gets some goofy teacher woman to support her after Martinez sent her old man to the clink for 23 years. Her Dem opponent has to be brainless but she works for Richardson so go figure.
Dems are the party of islam now.
***Ben Lighthorse Campbell,***
I remember him well! He and John Dingell both stabbed the NRA and American gun owners in the back when they voted FOR Clinton’s assault rifle ban.
Campbell later became a republican and got lots congrats as he has tried to ingrate himself back into the gun owner groups.
BUT I STILL REMEMBER HIS BACKSTABBING!
She also is caring for a 54 year-old sister who is developmentally disabled with the mental capacity of a 5-year old.
She's definitely a "Mama Grizzly."
Thanks for pinging me. She’s wonderful. She deserves to win.
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