In the 2021 local election, I went with a friend to a local polling place to electioneer. New Mexico state law allows electioneering as long as you are not within 100 ft of the door the voters use. While exercising my right, the chair of the Republican party, Amy Barela, called the sheriff on me, and rallied others to do the same, saying I was harassing and intimidating voters. She filed a false report with the police, and they believed her even though she had not been to the polling place when she called the sheriff. Here is video of my encounter with them, and the police report where no illegal activity was observed. In fact, after measuring from the door we were allowed to be closer than we were before the complaint!



Amy Barela is DUer Stephanie DuBois’s opponent as they run to replace Cowboys for Trump Couy Griffin, our resident insurrectionist county commissioner. Amy attempted to use the sheriff’s office to intimidate democrats with a false report that she was never held accountable for. She wasn’t afraid to abuse her influence and power as chair of the Republican Part of Otero County and she isn’t going to be afraid to abuse it if she wins the county commission seat. If you think Griffin is abusing his power by having constituents thrown out at meetings for exercising their rights, it’s going to be a whole lot worse if Amy gets in. She helped Couy sell our county the Griffins’ fake audit contract.

Earlier this year Amy was given a ticket for leaving a dog out in the freezing cold during the few days we had snow here. Magically, that ticket was changed over to her husband’s name and then dropped completely by the city. More abuse of her power that will only be amplified when she controls the county commission from within. No woman should be shamed by her husband’s crimes, but if you are interested in what the nmcourts.com says about Amy’s husband Jean Paul Barela, that’s on you.






Amy is also an election denier. Here she is at the latest county meeting where known grifter & Pillow guy’s friend David and Erin Clements presented their findings from their audit of the 2020 election.




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I thought my friend Donna was a wee bit paranoid. She phoned me Thursday before last to tell me to be extra cautious as my name had been mentioned by the election-denier, grifter, attorney David Clements during a county commission meeting, packed full with right-wing supporters of Clements and Cowboys for Trump, Jan 6 criminal Couy Griffin. Clements complained bitterly that I had filed an official complaint against him with the New Mexico Supreme Court and my complaint had initiated an investigation.

Then over last weekend, he complained about me again in a Facebook post. I got a few more calls and folks tell me that they think our county is where the next civil war begins or next mass shooting.

Then he posted a video. He says in the video that he has over 100,000 followers and whines that my complaint is taking food from his children’s mouths.

Video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lgDzJapXp-pBpFQZZDELlipxjsRmgOOy/view

More about Clements here, including NPR, report: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216961511

Clements friend, Couy Griffin uses tactics of normalizing violence with his speeches he made when he joined Women for America First on the bus tour across the country. He urged Trump supporters to rally at the Capitol on Jan. 6, saying there should be martial law and we are a nation at war. He continued to speak favorably of the riot in the days after the attack in videos he posted on social media.

Witness at Couy’s 14th Amendment trial to remove him from office last week, Rachel Kleinfeld said during his trial that Griffin in those public statements consistently used tactics that can incite people to become violent.
Clements and his telegram followers use these same tactics during their recruitment meetings on his social media that normalize violence, by saying things like using terms like firing squads as seen in this telgram shot from his channel.



Remember, this is the county where our commissioner’s “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat” video got retweeted by the former President. Same commissioner who has been banned by the Mescalero Apache reservation. Same commission district that my friend Stephanie DuBois is running for. We are doing all we can to stop this madness but we need your help. We need your support. This is what we have to counter.

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The continuation begins at 9am Mountain time (I think) You can call in to hear, dial: 401-594-2884 then enter 457 389 237#
"...A lawsuit contends Griffin violated the 14th Amendment, which prohibits officeholders sworn to uphold the Constitution from engaging in an “insurrection” against the U.S. government. The “disqualification clause” is part of a Civil War-era constitutional amendment intended to bar former Confederates from holding state or federal offices...SANTA FE — Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin admitted a couple of times Monday that he wasn’t ready for trial.

“I’m not as prepared as I should be,” Griffin, the defendant in a civil lawsuit seeking to remove him from his elected position, said during his opening statement. “I had too much confidence in the law being followed.”

Griffin is representing himself against a team of lawyers in a bench trial that could determine whether he will be allowed to serve out the remaining months of his term in office...
https://www.abqjournal.com/2524753/trial-begins-in-effort-to-remove-couy-griffin-from-office.html

The possibility of national implications tickles my fancy.

First, an apology. It is our (Duer Stephanie DuBois and my) intention to post a plea for support for a combined campaign weekly through our own DU ActBlue site (gratitude to Omaha Steve is out of this world).

Our Trump supporting County is a powder keg for violence. Not just in a physical sense but ideologically and legislatively too. First, our County passed a ‘Sanctuary for the Unborn’, regardless of those in attendance voicing their objections. In the past physical attendance had "influenced" our commissioners over emails because emails couldn't be verified as local. However, when it is opposition that has greater physical presence as we have done recently, it's the emails in support that have greater weight, regardless of location, than those physically present to speak.

Immediately, on the county's coattails, the City of Alamogordo planned a special meeting that was advertised as an ‘event’ for a republican state rep candidate



to support the County AND pass their own ‘Sanctuary for the Unborn’ resolution. We spent a week mobilizing support to appear and speak at the ‘Special Meeting’. Once again, opposition to this resolution showed up in greater numbers to speak than those in favor.



Emails from those "against" were scrutinized and discarded as "probably" being from outside the area. The emails "for" were not equally challenged or tossed. The city passed the resolution regardless.

The youth in our community have really stepped up since the leaked draft of Roe V Wade was released. We have worked tirelessly as mentors to assist them in navigating the world of political activism. Learning from them as well, as they say, you're never too old to teach "old dogs" new tricks. Together we have organized several pro-choice rallies and voter registration drives.

Honestly we know we have our work cut out for us here but it's not impossible to flip Otero Blue. We must reach the youth who think their votes don't matter. Those who have lost faith in their party and don't bother showing up anymore. Even those who are ready to make a party switch. These people are out there but we need your help to reach them.

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Thank you for your time and consideration.

I decided to add this photo, Cowboys for Trump Couy Griffin prayed at our protest against resolutions.