Diné to challenge Muñoz for N.M. senate seat

Diné to challenge Muñoz for N.M. senate seat
Navajo Times | Donovan Quintero New Mexico State Senate hopeful Felicia Adams speaks at the Iyanbito Chapter House Tuesday in Iyanbito, N.M. Adams announced her intention to run for the Democratic nomination for Sen. George Muñoz’ (D-Dist. 4) state senate seat.

Navajo Times | Donovan Quintero
New Mexico State Senate hopeful Felicia Adams speaks at the Iyanbito Chapter House Tuesday in Iyanbito, N.M. Adams announced her intention to run for the Democratic nomination for Sen. George Muñoz’ (D-Dist. 4) state senate seat.

IYANBITO, N.M.

Felisha Adams freely admits she has a disorder, but she doesn’t see it as a hindrance to her political ambitions. If anything, she says, having “questioning disorder” might bring some light to some murky problems.

Adams, who Tuesday announced her intention to run for the Democratic nomination for Sen. George Muñoz’ (D-Dist. 4) state senate seat, said she was surprised when she returned to the reservation a year ago to find “many people still suffering from the same issues I saw as a child.”

“We’re not hamsters,” Adams told the audience of about 20 who assembled at the Iyanbito chapter house to meet the 29-year-old candidate, who is Tábaahá born for African-American. “We shouldn’t be running around in circles.”

Adams’ grandfather, former state representative Albert Shirley, said he and other community members talked Adams into running because of the enthusiasm she has brought to the chapter since she moved back home from San Diego, where she was a Nammy-awarded hip-hop artist and businesswoman.


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Cindy Yurth

Cindy Yurth was the Tséyi' Bureau reporter, covering the Central Agency of the Navajo Nation, until her retirement on May 31, 2021. Her other beats included agriculture and Arizona state politics. She holds a bachelor’s degree in technical journalism from Colorado State University with a cognate in geology. She has been in the news business since 1980 and with the Navajo Times since 2005, and is the author of “Exploring the Navajo Nation Chapter by Chapter.”

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