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August 30th, 2026 

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Dear Friends:  

Please mark your calendars for Councilor Reagor’s Townhall Meeting on Thursday, September 17th,  6 p.m. at SALA Event Center.  This is an opportunity to meet and greet our 2026 Council Candidates, Jason Chappel and Eric Stromberg.  

 

Are you happy with our County Government?  

• Recent Natural Gas rate increase of 9% to the monthly service charge and a whopping 41% increase to the fixed cost-recovery rate per therm.   Council voted 6-1 for it (David Reagor opposed).  

• Trinity Road Diet traffic disaster.  Council voted 6-1 for it (David Reagor opposed).  

• Gross Receipts Tax Increase.  Council voted 6-1 for it (David Reagor opposed).  Soon after, Council voted for big salary raises for Councilors (David Reagor opposed), elected County officials and County staff.  

• The recent County meeting on Mass Surveillance cameras and Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) system.  Our community should have had the opportunity to hear from fellow citizens.  Instead, participants were instructed to use postcards to submit their questions, allowing County staff to select which ones would be answered.   

• Councilor Havemann touts public-private partnerships as “essential” tools to see more “economic vitality.”   She misses the fact that both Los Alamos and White Rock once had shopping centers that were full and vibrant, without LEDA and MRA funding.  She does not address the root causes of local business failures and assumes that public funds are the solution.  No answer yet on what our County is doing to ensure that this is not a slush fund for politically connected deals.  How do we avoid what happened with LEDA in Alamogordo and in 2021, the spectacular LEDA failure of Pebble Labs in Los Alamos?  

 

We must elect new leadership that is committed to transparency, accountability, and fiscal responsibility when it comes to public funds.  

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See you soon, 

 

Lisa Shin, RPLA Chair  

contact me at chair@losalamosgop.com  

Website:   www.losalamosgop.com     Phone:  505-310-3254

Instagram:  @RepublicanpartyofLosAlamos   Facebook: @RepublicanPartyofLosAlamos

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