Art De La Cruz

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Art De La Cruz
Image of Art De La Cruz
New Mexico House of Representatives District 12
Tenure

2022 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

3

Predecessor
Prior offices
Bernalillo County Commission District 2

New Mexico House of Representatives District 12
Predecessor: Patricio Ruiloba

Compensation

Base salary

$0/year

Per diem

$191/day

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Appointed

February 2, 2022

Education

Graduate

The University of New Mexico

Personal
Birthplace
Albuquerque, N.M.
Contact

Art De La Cruz (Democratic Party) is a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, representing District 12. He assumed office on February 2, 2022. His current term ends on December 31, 2026.

De La Cruz (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the New Mexico House of Representatives to represent District 12. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

He was appointed to the seat in 2022, following the resignation of Brittney Barreras(D).[1]

Biography

Art De La Cruz was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He earned a master's degree from the University of New Mexico. De La Cruz has served as a District Two County Commissioner and as a chairperson with county commission in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.[2]

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Committee assignments

Note: This membership information was last updated in September 2023. Ballotpedia completes biannual updates of committee membership. If you would like to send us an update, email us at:editor@ballotpedia.org.

2023-2024

De La Cruz was assigned to the following committees:


Elections

2024

See also: New Mexico House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for New Mexico House of Representatives District 12

Incumbent Art De La Cruz won election in the general election for New Mexico House of Representatives District 12 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Art De La Cruz
Art De La Cruz (D)
 
100.0
 
5,736

Total votes: 5,736
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New Mexico House of Representatives District 12

Incumbent Art De La Cruz advanced from the Democratic primary for New Mexico House of Representatives District 12 on June 4, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Art De La Cruz
Art De La Cruz
 
100.0
 
1,033

Total votes: 1,033
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for De La Cruz in this election.

2022

See also: New Mexico House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for New Mexico House of Representatives District 12

Incumbent Art De La Cruz won election in the general election for New Mexico House of Representatives District 12 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Art De La Cruz
Art De La Cruz (D)
 
100.0
 
4,361

Total votes: 4,361
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New Mexico House of Representatives District 12

Incumbent Art De La Cruz defeated Melissa Armijo and Nicole Olonovich in the Democratic primary for New Mexico House of Representatives District 12 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Art De La Cruz
Art De La Cruz
 
52.7
 
789
Image of Melissa Armijo
Melissa Armijo
 
29.8
 
446
Nicole Olonovich
 
17.6
 
263

Total votes: 1,498
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

2020

See also: New Mexico House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for New Mexico House of Representatives District 12

Brittney Barreras defeated incumbent Art De La Cruz in the general election for New Mexico House of Representatives District 12 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Brittney Barreras
Brittney Barreras (Independent)
 
73.8
 
4,183
Image of Art De La Cruz
Art De La Cruz (D) (Write-in) Candidate Connection
 
26.2
 
1,482

Total votes: 5,665
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Art De La Cruz did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

2022

Art De La Cruz did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Candidate Connection

Art De La Cruz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by De La Cruz's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

Expand all | Collapse all

My name is Art De La Cruz and I am running for the District 12 State Representative House seat as a Democratic write-in candidate in the 2020 Election. District 12 is made up of much of the South Valley and South West Albuquerque, and as a South Valley native, born and raised in the same home I now live in, my roots have shaped me into who I am today. My upbringing taught me about pride in an honest days work, the value of family, the value of education, and an unwavering drive to better the community that I grew up in and that raised me. I served as County Commissioner from 2008-2016, and I fought every day to make sure we were not forgotten and that our journey got us closer to the great community we want, deserve and waited too long for. I will continue to do that as your State Representative, fighting to bring us and our children a better tomorrow. To do this, I will need your support, and I ask you to remember to please write my name, "Art De La Cruz" in the space provided on your ballot for the democratic candidate because you won't see my name printed.

  • State Property Tax Reform To Cap Taxes for Seniors Who Own Their Homes
  • State-Sponsored Low interest Loans for Higher Education Students
  • Centralized Statewide Call Center for Families and School Districts to be Connected to Critical Social Services

I am passionate about improving our public educational system in order to give our children a leg up to a better future, as well as supporting our higher educational students through state-sponsored low interest loans. I am dedicated to improving mental health services throughout the state so that anyone can have access to the resources they need. Furthermore, I am committed to ensuring our seniors are looked after, and making sure policies are put in place that help the wisest and some of the most vulnerable among us. Last but not least, I will work tirelessly to bring our community closer to the future that we have been carefully cultivating and have deserved for so long.

I believe it is absolutely critical to have experience in government. When I was served as County Commissioner, I learned to really appreciate just how important compromise is, with members of your own party as well as members of the other party. With this knowledge and experience, I worked to spearhead programs such as Art's Aces, which was a program to encourage and incentivize academic excellence. Additionally, I worked closely with local and federal groups and politicians to spearhead the creation of the Valle Del Oro National Wildlife Refuge. Experience matters and results matter.

I believe building relationships with other legislators is one of the lost art forms of politics. These relationships, both inside your party and with members of the other party, are the foundation on which we build compromise, and compromise and working together is how we will make New Mexico a better place better for us all

Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.




Campaign finance summary


Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.


Art De La Cruz campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* New Mexico House of Representatives District 12Won general$41,616 $13,215
2022New Mexico House of Representatives District 12Won general$119,546 $70,789
2020New Mexico House of Representatives District 12Lost general$63,521 N/A**
Grand total$224,683 $84,004
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

See also: State legislative scorecards and State legislative scorecards in New Mexico

A scorecard evaluates a legislator’s voting record. Its purpose is to inform voters about the legislator’s political positions. Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. For example, an advocacy group’s scorecard may assess a legislator’s voting record on one issue while a state newspaper’s scorecard may evaluate the voting record in its entirety.

Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. Some states have a limited number of available scorecards or scorecards produced only by select groups. It is Ballotpedia’s goal to incorporate all available scorecards regardless of ideology or number.

Click here for an overview of legislative scorecards in all 50 states.  To contribute to the list of New Mexico scorecards, email suggestions to editor@ballotpedia.org.


2024


2023


2022


2021


2020








See also


External links

Footnotes

  1. KRQE, "De La Cruz appointed to New Mexico House of Representatives," accessed June 7, 2022
  2. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 8, 2020

Political offices
Preceded by
Brittney Barreras (D)
New Mexico House of Representatives District 12
2022-Present
Succeeded by
-
Preceded by
Patricio Ruiloba (D)
New Mexico House of Representatives District 12
2020-2021
Succeeded by
Brittney Barreras (D)
Preceded by
-
Bernalillo County Commission District 2
2008-2016
Succeeded by
-


Leadership
Speaker of the House:Javier Martínez
Majority Leader:Reena Szczepanski
Minority Leader:Gail Armstrong
Representatives
District 1
District 2
District 3
Bill Hall (R)
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
District 9
District 10
G. Romero (D)
District 11
District 12
District 13
District 14
District 15
District 16
District 17
District 18
District 19
District 20
District 21
District 22
District 23
District 24
District 25
District 26
District 27
District 28
District 29
District 30
District 31
District 32
District 33
District 34
District 35
District 36
District 37
District 38
District 39
District 40
District 41
District 42
District 43
District 44
District 45
District 46
District 47
District 48
District 49
District 50
District 51
District 52
District 53
District 54
District 55
District 56
District 57
District 58
District 59
District 60
District 61
District 62
District 63
District 64
District 65
District 66
District 67
District 68
District 69
District 70
Democratic Party (44)
Republican Party (26)