I don't live in NM, but I worked for him at DOE. He's clearly the least of the evils that have announced for the Dem nomination.
Not that I would vote for him!!!
I don't think he was all that great at DOE. The loss of secret information from Los Alamos (in his home state of NM, no less) occurred on his watch. He let Alec Baldwin and Christie Brinkley (noted nuclear physicists both) browbeat (or maybe Christie did some other kind of favor) him into trashing the incredibly productive and utterly benign research facility, the High Flux Beam Reactor, at Brookhaven Lab, and throwing many good, hardworking people out of work in the process, ruining their lives and careers.
But none of this mattered when it came to electing the bum Governor of NM. Likewise it won't matter to people when they elect the scumbag President. Rotten, lousy scum all of them...