Subject: EVENT: RGA summit in NM
From: "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 06:35:04 -0700

Protests will be happening today, as it's the main day
Bill Clinton to make 2-day campaign swing through state<http://www.abqjournal.com/773353/bill-clinton-to-make-2day-campaign-swing-through-state.html>
Former President Bill Clinton will make a two-day campaign swing through New Mexico later this month to stump for his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Bill Clinton, who served as president from 1993 through 2000, will hold public events in Albuquerque and Española on May 24 and 25, the Clinton campaign announced Thursday.
No other information was released about the events.
New Mexico is among the final wave of states to hold its primary election. This year's primary is set for June 7, with 34 delegates at stake on the Democratic side.
Bill Clinton, who carried New Mexico in both 1992 and in his 1996 re-election bid, is no stranger to the state.
Most recently, he campaigned in Española in 2010 for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Diane Denish, who lost that year's race to now-Gov. Susana Martinez. Clinton also attended former Gov. Bruce King's funeral in Moriarty in 2009.
HEADING TO NEW MEXICO: Gov. Susana Martinez will host fellow Republican governors from around the nation at a policy summit next week in Bernalillo, after spending much of this week traveling out of state.
Martinez, who was elected chairwoman of the Republican Governors Association last fall, has traveled out of New Mexico extensively in recent months - to nine states since the beginning of March.
She was in St. Louis earlier this week for RGA meetings and will be in Omaha, Neb., on Saturday to speak at the Nebraska state GOP convention. In between, the governor attended the burial of Albuquerque police officer Daniel Webster, who was killed in the line of duty last October, at Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington, D.C.
Martinez won't have so far to go next week, since an RGA "corporate policy summit" is scheduled for Monday through Wednesday at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa in Bernalillo.
RGA spokesman Jon Thompson says GOP governors meet several times a year to discuss what's working in their states and how to "drive economic access, grow jobs and institute needed reforms."
He said that usually around 15 or more governors attend, but he wasn't able to say who would come to New Mexico. There's a similar meeting in September in Boston.
WORKING FOR TRUMP: The chairwoman of the Santa Fe County Republican Party stepped down from her post last week to work for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Jo Ann Eastham said this week that she'd been weighing the move for several months. She also told the Journal she believes that negative stereotypes of Trump supporters are largely false.
In New Mexico and elsewhere, elected party officials are generally required, via internal rules, to maintain neutrality in primary elections.
In a case last summer that drew national attention, former Santa Fe County GOP Treasurer Ignacio Padilla was removed from his post after hosting

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