New Mexico Democrats are hoping a new executive director and chairwoman will steer the once-dominate party back into power after historic losses in 2014.
The party announced this week it has selected Colorado attorney Joe Kabourek (kah-BOOR' ehk) as its executive director and officials plan on embarking on statewide tour to speak to "dispirited" activists.
Republicans gained control of the New Mexico House for the first time in six decades and Gov. Susan Martinez was re-elected in one of the largest margins of victory for a GOP governor in the state. The losses came even though state Democrats outnumbered Republicans in voter registration 1.5-to-1.
Kabourek says he wanted to rebuild the Democratic bench and put the party in position to retake the New Mexico House in 2016.
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