Mendoza to seek another term:
Mayor says he is ‘feeling fine right now’
Gallup Mayor Harry Mendoza sits in a City Council meeting May 26. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Cable Hoover

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Bill Donovan
Independent correspondent

GALLUP — With 20 months to go in his administration, Harry Mendoza said he still finds being mayor of Gallup “enjoyable,” although a “little frustrating.”

And despite all of the criticism and the headline stories in the Independent linking him to a gang rape in 1948, he said this week that he’s looking at another term in office when this one ends.

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