× Expand Courtesy Stephanie Garcia Richard Stephanie Garcia Richard, left, and Deb Haaland campaign during the Santa Fe Pride Parade in July. The weeks-long inter party fight to choose a lieutenant governor nominee ended just where the state Democratic Party’s gubernatorial nominee wanted it. With 477 votes cast from the party’s 500 State Central Committee members, outgoing Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard bested State Senator Harold Pope 53%-46%. Gubernatorial nominee Deb Haaland endorsed Garcia Richard early in the process causing many in the party’s more progressive wing to object. The final results were: Stephanie Garcia Richard: 255 votes (53%), Harold Pope Jr.: 218 votes (46%), Toni Pinedo: 3 votes and Geoffrey Luehring: 1 vote.