Founder of New Mexico Democrats for Democracy running for U.S. House seat in GOP primary
The founder of New Mexico Democrats for Democracy is running for Congress. But there’s a twist: He’s running as a Republican.
Brett Kokinadis of Santa Fe said Tuesday he changed his party affiliation and is jumping into the GOP primary for New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District.
Call it a long shot in this deeply Democratic part of the state. Call it an interesting experiment in reaching across the aisle. Call it just the latest surprising turn for an organization that has emerged as a thorn in the side of plenty in New Mexico’s Democratic Party. Either way, Kokinadis is — at this point — the only Republican who has filed to run for the seat that U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., is vacating to run for a Senate seat.
Democrats for Democracy initially sprouted during the gubernatorial primary last year as an anonymous social media campaign that pilloried now-Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham while touting one of her election rivals, Jeff Apodaca.
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