Gail Armstrong

Bob Clark, along with Dale Cornelius, our producer, Zoltan in the newsroom, 96.3 Newsradio KKOV, the sudden resignation of State Representative Andrea Reba of Clovis, who was also one of the two Republicans serving on the so-called Epstein Truth Commission and the impact of all of that moving forward.

And we're going to talk about it now with the leader of the House Republicans, Gail Armstrong of Magdalena.

Leader Armstrong, thank you very much for your time this morning.

How are you doing today?

So we'll see.

But yes, it is ultimately up to the Speaker of the House, Javier Martinez.

State Representative Gail Armstrong, House Republican leader from Magdalena, with us here on NewsRadio KKO.

In fact, some recent comments from the Speaker regarding the resignation of Representative Reeb really seemed inappropriate, if not out of place, right?

And this is a bill that's going to be introduced in the upcoming session for future elections in the race for governor.

State Senator Nicole Tobiasen, Republican of Albuquerque, and the House Republican leader Gail Armstrong from Magdalena, they are going to introduce a law that would require at least one televised in-person debate between the major party candidates for governor and future general elections moving forward.

The failure to adhere to this rule would result in financial penalties against the campaigns.

And they're calling it the ducking debate rule.

And so, yeah, I agree.

So that's the problem that I'm having.

And I hope the voters, not just the Democratic voters, look at this really, really strongly and say, look— What's going on? What kind of leader is she going to be if she doesn't, you know, go and confront the issues that she has? You know, that's that's the whole thing.

Yeah, that's really what we know.

So we got State Senator,

what, Nicole Tobiasen and House Republican Leader Gail Armstrong announced that they are drafting legislation to require by law that At least one televised in-person debate between the major party candidates for governor for every future general election before early voting begins.

Too late here now, this season.

And it says failure to adhere to this rule would result in financial penalties in future campaigns.