Former U.S. Congresswoman and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland unveiled her Democratic gubernatorial campaign’s “affordability agenda” in an Albuquerque commercial kitchen Wednesday afternoon.
Standing alongside two campaign supporters, state Rep. Cristina Parajón (D-Albuquerque) and Communications Workers of America local 7076 President Megan Green, Haaland surveilled the kitchen space inside the nonprofit Street Food Institute on Fourth Street and recalled her early career of making salsa from scratch as a single mother.
“I was in a kitchen much like this one [where] I worked to perfect my salsa recipe so I could start my own business. I needed the flexibility because I couldn’t afford child care. I cleaned at my child’s pre-school to help pay the cost of an early childhood education, because that was important to me,” she said. “It’s expensive to be poor. I wish I had all the money I paid in bank fees when I only had $1 in my account.”…