NM Republican candidate for governor Turner talks taxes, education, child welfare at town hall

By: Joshua Bowling

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: April 15, 2026

Words: 834

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Doug Turner, an Albuquerque native who founded an international communications company and is now running in the Republican gubernatorial primary, said he would work to lower taxes, improve education and dismantle “large chunks” of the state’s troubled child welfare agency at the Albuquerque Journal’s ongoing candidate town hall series Tuesday.

Turner unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2010 and lost in the primary to Susana Martinez. He told a crowd gathered at the newspaper’s auditorium …

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