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Empowerment Congress
Community organization and original lead plaintiff in the first OMA lawsuit (D-307-CV-2025-02766) seeking to void the IRB and LEDA ordinances; withdrew November 6, 2025; Daisy Maldonado is its former director.
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A community organization that was the original lead plaintiff in the Open Meetings Act suit seeking to void the county's IRB and LEDA ordinances.
At a glance
- Kind
- Community group or coalition
- Role in the project
- Litigant
- Key people
- Daisy Maldonado
- Verification
- confirmed — Two independent accounts agree
- In the record
- 1 sources · 1 connections · 0 dated entries
- Record id
- PJO90
Key facts
- 2025-10-17Named, with two residents, as a plaintiff when NMELC filed the first Open Meetings Act suit to void Ordinances 367 and 368 (Case D-307-CV-2025-02766).
- 2025-11-06Withdrew as lead plaintiff on November 6, 2025; the individual plaintiffs continued.
- 2026-02-06It is not a party to NMELC's second Open Meetings Act complaint, filed February 6, 2026, which NMELC brought in its own name (No. D-307-CV-2026-00398).[1]
- 2025-10-29Daisy Maldonado, its former director, presented to the interim Water and Natural Resources Committee on October 29, 2025, describing the project as four data centers and a 700-megawatt gas plant.
The record
Original lead plaintiff in the NMELC IRB suit; withdrew Nov 6 2025 (individual plaintiffs continued)
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