Lundstrom touts feats
County officials take achievement tour

Workers are clouded behind a steel grid around cells under construction at the new juvenile detention center in Gallup on Thursday. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Adron Gardner

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Bill Donovan
Independent correspondent

GALLUP — Patty Lundstrom — McKinley County’s six million dollar woman.But unlike Steve Austin, the fictional television character in a popular television series from the 1970s, Lundstrom didn’t use the $6 million to make herself bionic. There are those who probably think she is already bionic, considering the number of hours she spends each day her duties as a state legislator and as director of the Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments.

Instead, it refers to the amount of money that Lundstrom has brought into the county in the 10 years she has served as a state representative.

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