Jacob Candelaria

Jacob Candelaria

The featured speaker at the June meeting of the Democratic Party of Lincoln County was Jacob Candelaria, state senator, one of the rising young stars of the New Mexico Democratic Party. When he joined the state Legislature at age 25, he was one of the youngest state senators in America.

Candelaria has a bachelor’s degree from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and currently is a student at the University of New Mexico School of Law. His District 26 includes the west side and parts of the south valley of Albuquerque. He was invited to Lincoln County to discuss the recent primary election outcomes and to give some perspective on issues of the state Legislature, past and future.

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