Levi Emmett Timmons (Mayor of Silver City, New Mexico, candidate 2025)
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Levi Emmett Timmons ran for election to the Mayor of Silver City in New Mexico. She was on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source]
Timmons completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Levi Emmett Timmons provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 6, 2025:
- Birth date: December 20, 1994
- Birth place: Tucson, Arizona
- High school: Also Leopold High School
- Gender: Female
- Religion: Agnostic
- Profession: Nonprofit Executive Director
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Done begging for change.
- Campaign website
Elections
General election
General election for Mayor of Silver City
Guadalupe E. Cano, Dale Lane, Levi Emmett Timmons, and Simon William Wheaton-Smith ran in the general election for Mayor of Silver City on November 4, 2025.
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| Guadalupe E. Cano (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Dale Lane (Nonpartisan) | ||
Levi Emmett Timmons (Nonpartisan)  | ||
| Simon William Wheaton-Smith (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Election results
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Levi Emmett Timmons completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Timmons' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My name is Levi Timmons, but my friends call me Zoey. I am the founder of the New Mexico Care Collective, a former cartographer for the Bureau of Land Management, and a proud leftist. I am the enemy within, because I have declared war on the oligarchic ruling class and I want to start co-ops. If you are done begging for change and are ready to start demanding it, then I am your candidate.
- Workers of the world, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. We are being robbed. Freeport and Walmart are extracting millions upon millions of dollars of wealth from our city and our county, and it ends with me. It is our responsibility to reverse the wealth inequality in our town and hold price gougers and slum lords accountable.
- One in four residents of Silver City doesn't know how they are going to buy food for the month. In the wealthiest nation in the history, this is unacceptable. While our governor hides behind imaginary crime statistics and justifies dumping millions of dollars into our Police departments, the government is abducting citizens and suspending our rights. It is now on the shoulders of local politicians to uphold decency and humanity. We must declare ourselves a sanctuary city and immediately provide emergency housing to migrants. We must also halt all cooperation with ICE.
- The number one thing that people say is we don't have the money. We just spent $16 million on a brand new rec center when there is a 2000 unit housing shortfall in this town. We have families sleeping in their cars, meanwhile there are boarded up Windows and shuttered businesses. We need to invest in housing immediately.
Human rights and basic decency
I look up to the revolutionaries of our past. I look up to the abolitionists of our past. I look up to the people who were willing to speak truth to power. I look up to John Brown and Che Guevara, and the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy. I look up to anti-fascists who fed their people and bled their enemies. I look up to the brave. I look up to The Men who dared to dream. The men who fought tooth and nail with gnashing teeth and bared arms for freedom and the rights of the oppressed. Free Palestine.
Vision. To hell with experience, look where experience has got us! To hell with decorum, the extremists have thrown out the rule book. I have a plan, I have principles, and I have a backbone. Why? Because I can still envision a better world. Because I know we can do better than going back to business as usual. Because I know we have a responsibility to Future generations. Vision.
To use the bully pulpit and rally the people to demand change. The office of Mayor is not a ceremonial bipartisan position where you represent everyone in a mealy-mouthed cowardly way. The office of mayor has a responsibility to Shepherd the town into prosperity. And if you ask me a good leader has a responsibility to put an end to rampant privatization.
Someone who is not afraid of this administration. Someone who would not kowtow to polite framing. Someone who knew right from wrong and refused to stand on the wrong side of History. A worker. The likes of whom bled for the 8-hour work day and the 40-hour work week and the weekend and the 15 minute break.
The first major historical event that I remember was 9/11. I was in first grade.
My first job was a trailbuilder for the wellness coalition, a local non profit. I worked under a program sponsored by the youth conservation corps., for almost 10 years until the funding was unceremoniously pulled.
My favorite book is Pyotr Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread". It is an expert analysis of the material conditions of the working class and an indictment of the Injustice inherent in modern agriculture and industry. I highly recommend it. The implications when adapted for contemporary production capacity are frankly staggering.
Luffy from One Piece.
Poverty. After the government funding got pulled out from under my employer, I got to experience first hand what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck.
To me that means standing up for the people who can't stand up for themselves. To me that means going door to door and speaking to people and showing them the plan. To me that means inviting the constituents to write the plan not telling the constituents what is best for them. I am the head of the spear. I demand from our state government what you demand as the residents of this city. I do not exist to cut ribbons and hold back your progress.
Lobbying the state government, communicating with the people, and demanding that their needs are met. The mayor is supposed to be your dually elected representative your champion not a passive vote on Town council meetings.
The mayor's duty is to advocate for the people. If the Town council stands in opposition to the needs and demands of the people than it is the mayor's duty to campaign against them. It is the mayor's duty to show in broad daylight for all eyes to see, who is representing their best interests, and who is representing their own interests.
The people. Not the people in power. Not the people in public. But the people who died here because of bad policy. The people who were forced out of their homes by Greedy landlords. The people who had no opportunity and so they succumbed to addiction. My revolution is born out of love for my people. Not hatred for others.
Standing up to Freeport-McMoRan and Walmart. Making sure that people can feed their families. Reducing the rent and implementing a moratorium on no fault evictions. Standing up to the federal government and our own Police department. I could go on and on.
If we do not demand better, the state government will ignore us. They will turn a blind eye to poisoned water in the mining district. They will laugh at our demands for profit sharing. They will tout our productivity, profit off of our pain, and look at the other way on every violation, unless we raise our voices and demand better.
We can send a message as a municipality that fascism ends at our borders. That Injustice and intolerance have no place here. In short- I don't work with Nazis. So I don't want any fucking relationship with the federal government. Period.
I have received no endorsements from any political party, or establishment politician. This is a point of pride for me.
I'm a published author and the founder of a mutual aid network.
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See also
2025 Elections
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