Stansbury cries gerrymandering again after Dems carved up NM (No Pub congressional representative since 2020)

The Piñon Post ^ | June 17, 2026 | Piñon Post staff

[CedarDave]

U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury is doubling down on her gerrymandering fundraising pitch, again accusing Republicans of trying to “deny representation” while ignoring the political reality right here in New Mexico: Democrats used total control of Santa Fe to redraw the state’s congressional map and help wipe out Republican representation in the U.S. House delegation.

In a new campaign email with the subject line “A lack of representation,” Stansbury claimed, “Republican gerrymandering is an attempt to deny representation for Americans.”

The email asked supporters to “rush $10 right now” to help Stansbury support Democratic women, saying her campaign needed to raise $1,320 by midnight to stay on track ahead of an FEC filing deadline.

The latest email follows a previous Stansbury fundraising pitch that warned donors about “gerrymandering” and asked for money to “make sure Republicans stay OUT of Congress.”

Now, rather than backing away from the hypocrisy, Stansbury appears to be leaning into it.

The problem for Stansbury is simple: New Mexico voters already watched Democrats do exactly what she claims to oppose.

After the 2020 Census, New Mexico’s congressional map was drawn by the state’s Democrat-controlled Legislature and signed by Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The new map dramatically reshaped the state’s congressional districts, especially the southern Second Congressional District, which had long been the most Republican-leaning seat in the state.

Democrats cracked conservative communities and stretched the district into more Democrat-friendly areas, giving their party a much stronger shot at winning all three congressional seats.

That is exactly what happened.

Republican Yvette Herrell lost the Second Congressional District in 2022 to Democrat Gabe Vasquez, and Democrats now hold all three of New Mexico’s U.S. House seats.

Because for Republicans in this state, the result was clear. Their congressional representation was effectively erased.

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TOPICS: New Mexico; Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: awfuls; bolsheviks; cheating; democrats; domesticenemies; gerrymandering; insurgency; newmexico; rigging; stansbury; tampering

[CedarDave]

I lost my congressional vote when they did this - they took the more affluent portions of Hobbs and Roswell, and put us in with the Navajo's, Apache's and poverty stricken Hispanics in northern New Mexico. NM-3 now extends from the Four Corners southeast to the Texas border at Hobbs. To make up those numbers, NM-2 was then given the poor in ABQ's south valley and several other communities south of there. NM-1, previously just Albuquerque and East Mountain suburbs, was expanded like a tumor SE to pick up even more Dem voters.

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[ComputerGuy]

People on the dole can still vote.

[Mark]

Come on! They can do much better than $10.00. Get second and third mortgages and give to all of the liberals.

[kawhill]

“Stansbury cries gerrymandering again after Dems carved up NM” Isn’t there a place in NM where they found evidence of aliens?