The Republican Party of New Mexico will be holding its annual state convention in Amarillo, Texas on May 14-16 due to excessive restrictions in New Mexico.
The Las Cruces Sun News reported:
The Republican Party of New Mexico is holding its annual state convention next month, but it won't be in-state.
The three-day event, dubbed Operation Freedom, will be held in Amarillo, Texas, which has much looser COVID-19 restrictions than New Mexico, where mass gatherings under even the most lenient conditions are limited to 150 people.
"It was named 'Operation Freedom' because had we been able to have it in our own state, we would not have to travel," Kim Skaggs, the state GOP's executive director, said in a telephone interview Monday.
New Mexico's COVID-19 restrictions, some of the most stringent in the nation, are likely to be a hot topic during the convention, particularly since Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota and U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, both Republicans, will be the keynote speakers.
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