New Mexico in Focus Talks GOP Convention, Women’s Issues

This week on New Mex­ico in Focus, pan­elists ana­lyze Gov. Martinez’s per­for­mance at the Repub­li­can National Con­ven­tion in Tampa, and Mar­tinez her­self shares her thoughts with the panel.

New Mex­ico PBS’ one hour pub­lic affairs show New Mex­ico in Focus airs Fri­days at 7 p.m. and Sun­days at 7 a.m. on Chan­nel 5.1. The show can also be seen on New Mex­ico PBS Chan­nel 9.1 on Sat­ur­days at 5 p.m.

Also this week, RNC del­e­gate Jamie Estrada reports back from the con­ven­tion hall, women’s rights activist Martha Burk speaks about the issues that res­onate with women this elec­tion, and the team weighs in on polit­i­cal reshuf­fling after con­gres­sional can­di­date Michelle Lujan Grisham resigned her post as Bernalillo County commissioner.

Guests:
* Susana Mar­tinez, New Mex­ico gov­er­nor
* Agnes Chavez, ISEA 2012 edu­ca­tion pro­gram direc­tor
* Nicholas Chiarella, ISEA 2012 edu­ca­tion pro­gram coor­di­na­tor
* Suzanne Sbarge, ISEA 2012 exec­u­tive producer

Line Pan­elists:
* Jamie Estrada, for­mer U.S. Com­merce Depart­ment offi­cial
* Dan Foley, for­mer N.M. House Repub­li­can Whip
* Rob Nikolewski, edi­tor, Capi­tol Report New Mex­ico
* Laura Sanchez, attor­ney
* John Wertheim, for­mer N.M. Demo­c­ra­tic Party chairman

Cor­re­spon­dent:
* Matt Grubs, NMIF producer

Host/Commentator:
* Gene Grant

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New Mex­ico in Focus is pro­duced by Matt Grubs and Kathy Wimmer.

Fund­ing has been pro­vided in part by the McCune Foundation.

Media Con­tact: Evy Todd, (505) 277‑1218; email: etodd@newmexicopbs.org