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Patti Bushee, right, and campaign volunteer Lisa Cacari canvass the south side Saturday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Bill Dimas and his wife, Candy, do the two-step during a rally Saturday at The Lodge at Santa Fe. DANIEL J. CHACÓN/THE NEW MEXICAN
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Javier Gonzales talks with resident Fran Dunaway on Saturday about Tuesday’s election. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Election: Some candidates go out in rain while others take day off Continued from Page A-1 mer City Councilor Molly Whitted, who said she’s known Dimas all her life. “I’ve been around politics for a long, long time. I’m telling you, this is the biggest opportunity for Santa Feans in their entire lives to put this guy in as mayor,” she said. “He’s honest. He’s got integrity. He’s a man of his word. He’s committed his entire life to public service one way or another.” Dimas, who was the lead singer of a rock ‘n’ roll band in his youth, took the microphone at one point and belted out a few songs, including “La Bamba,” which he called “the Santa Fe national anthem.” The one-on-one contact between the mayoral candidates and voters winds down what has been a closely watched and sometimes hostile race with no incumbent. The winner will replace two-term Mayor David Coss, who is not seeking reelection. Among the biggest issues in the mayoral contest has been the involvement of political action committees and other groups who are spending private dollars to support the candidacy of Gonzales despite his repeated requests that they stay out of the
race, which marks the first time that the candidates run under the city’s public financing system. Gonzales said the involvement of PACs hasn’t been an issue for voters he’s encountered on the campaign trail. “We have found largely in our going door-to-door and on the phone calls that the PACs just haven’t really resonated to a lot of people. I think that they believe us when we say we’re running our own campaign, and they like it when our own campaign is reaching out to them,” he said. Meanwhile, some council candidates ventured into the rain to meet with potential voters while others took the day off. “I was resting,” said Marie Campos, who is running against Angelo Jaramillo and incumbent Carmichael Dominguez in District 3. “I think we’ve knocked on most of the doors in the district.” Jaramillo, son of former Mayor Debbie Jaramillo, said most of his campaigning Saturday involved reaching out to voters on the
telephone. “It was a little difficult to get out there because of the rain and everything,” he said. Signe Lindell, who is running against Michael Segura in District 1, said she devoted part of her morning to thanking supporters who had allowed her to put campaign signs in their yards. But Lindell said she spent most of the day reflecting on the last several months of the campaign before driving to Albuquerque
for a wedding. “I kind of took the day off and relaxed and thought about the whole process of what we’ve done. I enjoyed the day,” she said. Bushee, who has been feeling
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under the weather, said she plans to keep knocking on doors “until I can’t.” “Every day is critical,” she said. “A lot of folks have early voted, but a lot of folks are still
undecided.” As of 2:30 p.m. Friday, nearly 2,200 voters had voted early, according to the City Clerk’s Office. A member of Gonzales’
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