PASSED. REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE YVETTE HARRELL IS SPEAKING OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME SI NCE NEW MEXICO’S LEGISLATIVE MAPS HAVE BEEN REDRAWN AERFT 7 NEWS REPORTER JOHN CARDINELLI HEARD FROM HER AND JOHN. IT SOUNDS LIKE SHE’S UPSET WITH THIS NEW MAP. YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT. AND HERE’S WHAT THE OLD MAP LOOKS LIKE. COULD TAKE A LOOK HERE MUCH OF SOUTRNHE AND RURAL NEW MEXICO ALL CLUMPED TOGETHER AND THEN YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THAT NEW MAP AND YOU SEE THAT IT SORT OF BREAKS ALL OF THAT UP AND REPRESENTATIVE HAROLD BELIEVES THE NEW BOUNDARIES DRAWN WILL SILENCE RURAL COMMUNITIES EVERY 10 YEARS. EACH STATE’S LEGISLATIVE MAPS ARE REDRAWN BASED ON THE MOST RE CENT CENSUS DATA, NEW MEXICO’S NEW MAP WAS SIGNED AND APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR ONAN JUARY 6, AND I AM CONCERNED THAT WE WILL SEE SOMEF O THESE COMMUNITIES NOT HAVE THEIR VOICE. NOT HAVE TIRHE NEEDSET M NEW MEXICO REPUBLICAN CONGRESSWOMAN. YVETTE HARRELL IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE NEW REDRAWN MAP WHEN YOU START PUTTING, YOU KNOW ARTESIA IN THE SAME DISTRICT AS SANTA FE WHERE WE ALL KWNO THOSE TWO COMMUNITIES COULDN'’ BE, YOU KNOW MORE OPPOSITE. IT BSEG THE QUESTION. ARE THEY ALL GOING TO REALLY BE REPRENESTED CORRECTLY WHILE REPRESENTATIVE HARRELL SSAY THE MAP AIMS TO SILENCE RURAL COMMUNITSIE DEMOCRATIC STATE. SENATOR. JOSEPH CERVANTES SAYS IT DOES ETH OPPOSITE BECSEAU IT COMBINES RURAL AND URBAN AREAS WHAT IT DOES IS IT TAKESLL A THREE OF OUR CONGRESS PERSONS OUT TO ALL PARTS OF NEW MEXICO’S IN THE CONGRESS ONE FROM ALAMOGORDO WHO HAS BEEN ABLE TO FOCUSER H ATTENTION ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE STATE NOW HAS TO COME TO LAS CRUCES AND HAS TO GOO T ALBUQUER HAVE BEEN TALKS ABOUT POSSIBLE LAWSUITS COMING ABOUT BECAUSE OF THE NEW REDWNRA MAP. SENATOR CERVANTES SAYS IF A LAWSUIT SHOULD COME ABOUT HE’S CONFIDENT THE MAP WILL PREVAIL AND I’M JOHN CARDINELLI REPORTING KOAT ACTION 7. JOHN THANK YOU. THE NEW BOUNDARIES WILL