Alan Hall (New Mexico)

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Alan Hall
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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

June 2, 2020

Education

Graduate

Colorado State University, 1979

Law

University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 1990

Personal
Birthplace
Ouray, Colo.
Profession
Lawyer
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Alan Hall (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New Mexico State Senate to represent District 10. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.

Hall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Alan Hall was born in Ouray, Colorado. He obtained an undergraduate degree in December 1975 after attending Arizona State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He also completed a correspondence course in geology at the University of Missouri. Hall earned an M.S. from Colorado State University in 1979 and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in May 1990. He began working as a lawyer in private practice in 1990. He is a member of the New Mexico Bar.[1]

Elections

2020

See also: New Mexico State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for New Mexico State Senate District 10

Katy Duhigg defeated incumbent Candace Thompson Gould in the general election for New Mexico State Senate District 10 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Katy Duhigg
Katy Duhigg (D) Candidate Connection
 
52.5
 
13,508
Image of Candace Thompson Gould
Candace Thompson Gould (R)
 
47.5
 
12,202

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 25,710
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New Mexico State Senate District 10

Katy Duhigg defeated Alan Hall in the Democratic primary for New Mexico State Senate District 10 on June 2, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Katy Duhigg
Katy Duhigg Candidate Connection
 
67.3
 
4,064
Image of Alan Hall
Alan Hall Candidate Connection
 
32.7
 
1,974

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 6,038
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for New Mexico State Senate District 10

Incumbent Candace Thompson Gould advanced from the Republican primary for New Mexico State Senate District 10 on June 2, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Candace Thompson Gould
Candace Thompson Gould
 
100.0
 
3,667

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 3,667
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2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Alan Hall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hall's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I was born (in 1953) and raised in Ouray, Colorado. My parents ran a modest motel. I got a B.A. in Biology from the University of Colorado in 1975, an M.S. in Agronomy from Colorado State in 1979, and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990. I worked as a state regulator of coal mine reclamation in Missouri and New Mexico from 1980 to 1985, followed by shorter stints with the New Mexico Abandoned Mine Land Bureau and the New Mexico Radiation Protection Bureau. Since 1990 I have been a lawyer in private practice in Albuquerque. My practice has been almost entirely transactional (i.e., with very little litigation), and has concentrated on governmental and private finance, industrial revenue bonds, metropolitan redevelopment bonds, condominium formation, and hospital operations. Since 2016 my wife, also a lawyer, has been a member of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. We have two grown children. My hobbies include reading, backpacking, skiing and gardening.
  • Global warming is not just and environmental issue; it is the pre-eminent moral issue of our time. We need to rapidly move to an all-electric economy.
  • Competition is the foundation of economic development. Instead a trying to bribe our way to prosperity with subsidies, we need to eliminate barriers to competition.
  • Even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, we should not criminalize abortion. The potential War on Abortion would be far worse than the War on Drugs.
I am passionate about all three of the messages above. Much of my education and adult work experience has been in environmental areas, and the damage posed by global warming far exceeds any previous environmental crisis. Like Margaret Thatcher, I was raised in an apartment over the family business, and was immersed in that business from my earliest memory. And like Ms. Thatcher, I have a keen appreciation of the value of competition, an alertness to transactional costs, and a hunger for efficiency. My legal experience has given me a good understanding of the lack of competition, the unnecessary transactional costs, and the pointless inefficiencies that bedevil state and local government in New Mexico. Finally, I appreciate the moral issues posed by abortion, and I support all reasonable means - better education, and free and ready access to contraceptives - to reduce the abortion rate. But abortion is one of those problems, like ignorance, poverty and (if one is a genuine religious believer) heresy, that just cannot be rationally addressed by criminalization.
Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution. Determination, humanity, and intellectual honesty.
Roald Amundsen. Not much of a personality, but someone who was continually planning and thinking problems through.
It's a Wonderful Life. Desert Solitaire. The Leopard. Johnny Got His Gun. Smith of Smiths.
A strong sense of morality. Intellectual honesty. An understanding that there are no simple solutions to many problems, but that incremental progress is nevertheless worthwhile. An aversion to pandering.
Some, but not excessive, patience with fools. Humility. A determination to do one's best.
I tell voters that I make only one promise: To work hard and do my best. That will have to do.
Defend the constitution, and seek to change the portions that aren't defensible.

Balance the books, and avoid leaving substantial debts for posterity.

Work for constructive change.
I would like to fix, or be part of the fix of, some social and governmental problems. Big fixes, if possible, but little fixes, if not.
The Kennedy-Nixon presidential contest. I was seven.
I worked in the family business throughout my childhood and adolescence. In the summers, starting at about age seven, I also sold mineral specimens to tourists at "Lookout Point", on the highway above town. Starting at age seventeen, and for the next five summers, I rented and operated a very small gas station, which was sufficient to entirely finance my college education.
Endurance, by Alfred Lansing. Just a rousing (and true) adventure, superbly written.
Both of our children are test-tube babies. it was an emotional struggle.

My wife and I took care of my mother, who had Lewy body dementia, in our home during most of the last year of her life. It was a very taxing experience, physically and emotionally.
As is typical, the House tends to be a bit more radical and impatient; the Senate somewhat more phlegmatic.
Certainly, but other forms of experience are obviously also desirable.
Global warming, which is the world's, and every locality's, greatest challenge going forward. But secondarily, diversifying the economy away from oil and gas and the federal government.
An amiable working relationship, but also a proper respect for their different roles.
Good God! Is this a serious question? Of course it is important. People have to understand and trust you if you are going to accomplish anything in any governmental body.
Conservation; Corporations and Transportation
Not initially. First there has to be a learning period.
No.
No.
Not "stories", exactly. But once in a while you come across a couple, or a family, one of whose members is severely and permanently disabled, and who are being, and have been, cared for at home for years, or even decades, involving tremendous dedication and labor. It is humbling, to say the least.

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  1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 18, 2020


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