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Kimble Kearns
Kimble Kearns (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New Mexico House of Representatives to represent District 59. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Kearns completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: New Mexico House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for New Mexico House of Representatives District 59
Incumbent Greg Nibert defeated Kimble Kearns in the general election for New Mexico House of Representatives District 59 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Greg Nibert (R) | 73.4 | 10,127 |
 | Kimble Kearns (D)  | 26.6 | 3,666 | |
| Total votes: 13,793 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Mexico House of Representatives District 59
Kimble Kearns advanced from the Democratic primary for New Mexico House of Representatives District 59 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kimble Kearns | 100.0 | 1,291 |
| Total votes: 1,291 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for New Mexico House of Representatives District 59
Incumbent Greg Nibert advanced from the Republican primary for New Mexico House of Representatives District 59 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Greg Nibert | 100.0 | 4,957 |
| Total votes: 4,957 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Kimble Kearns completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kearns' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My political views were shaped at an early age. I was 10 years old when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Some saw him as a freedom fighter struggling for civil rights for while others viewed him as pretentious colored trouble maker. I agreed with the former, more enlightened opinion. In 1970, when I was 14, the great national debate on the Vietnam War influenced my thinking. I that America should not be sending hundreds of thousands young men of drafted as they left high school to kill and be killed in a civil war among people we could not truly know or begin to understand.That same year was the first Earth Day which was a day of open protest against government policy that allowed the greed of big business to pollute our air, water, forests, and natural resources. The worst polluters then, and still today, are the large oil and gas corporations.
- NM public education is ranked among the lowest of all states. We can and must do better.
- Most New Mexicans do not have adequate access to good healthcare. This should be a priority.
- Incentives for clean wind and solar energy use is needed to become less dependent on oil & gas.
New Mexico ranks among the lowest of all states in public school education. Our poorly funded education system has gotten so bad that New Mexico Courts have recently ruled that New Mexico is violating its own constitution by not sufficiently educating at-risk, low-income students. Our District 59 families have relatively high rates of poverty, so it is our children who are among those that are suffering the most from poorly funded schools.Mr. Nibert, the current District 59 Representative, consistently votes against legislation that would improve New Mexico schools. I would vote to improve education.
My political views were shaped at an early age. I was 10 years old when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Some saw him as a freedom fighter struggling for civil rights for while others viewed him as pretentious colored trouble maker. I agreed with the former, more enlightened opinion.That same year was the first Earth Day which was a day of open protest against government policy that allowed the greed of big business to pollute our air, water, forests, and natural resources. The worst polluters then, and still today, are the large oil and gas corporations.
In 1970, when I was 14, the great national debate on the Vietnam War influenced my thinking. I that America should not be sending hundreds of thousands young men of drafted as they left high school to kill and be killed in a civil war among people we could not truly know or begin to understand.
I am a retired New Mexico High School Science/Math teacher and coach. I earned a bachelor's degree from UNM, Albuquerque is in Biology with an emphasis in Environmental Science. I earned a master's degree at NMSU, Las Cruces in Education with an emphasis in Curriculum Development. As a career teacher, it was evident that our schools were under-funded. They lacked the facilities and resources to help maximize students' fulfillment of their potential and dreams. Teacher salaries were too low and as a result I saw excellent teachers leave the profession for better paying jobs only to be replaced with teachers with less skill and enthusiasm. My experience confirms what research on our schools show, and what student test scores reveal: the children from families of District 59, and across New Mexico, are attending schools that can and must be improved.
New Mexico ranks among the lowest of all states in public school education. Our poorly funded education system has gotten so bad that New Mexico Courts have recently ruled that New Mexico is violating its own constitution by not sufficiently educating at-risk, low-income students. Our District 59 families have relatively high rates of poverty, so it is our children who are among those that are suffering the most from poorly funded schools.
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See also
2020 Elections
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