“

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges, but your Precinct 2 team has been there every step of the way, leading the way. I pushed for equity in our community’s vaccination roll-out, for as much direct cash assistance, rental assistance and utility assistance as possible, as well as ensuring the creation of programs that support our small businesses. And, although we’ve had to deal with these challenges every day for two years, my office worked hard to be impactful in many other areas. We lead the 2020 Census Complete County Committee, paving the way for hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funding to be infused into our community. We brought better access to voting in the 2020 elections and created the County’s first independent redistricting advisory committee. We also wrote policy to provide more access to healthy food for El Pasoans, ensured the expenditure of millions of dollars in park improvements at Ascarate Park, had the Segundo Barrio designated as a federally recognized historic district and created the County’s first immigrant services office. I am also proud of accomplishing the creation of Crisis Intervention Teams at the Police Department and Sheriff’s Office, as well as fighting for and achieving a living wage for the lowest paid employees at the County, University Medical Center and Emergence Health Network.

I would love to continue building upon all of this great work, and as the only TRUE Democrat in this Democratic Party Primary, I humbly ask for your support to be re-elected. We cannot afford to take steps in the wrong direction, only forward. Thank you.

David Stout

County Commissioner #2

I was born in Worland Wyoming, spending half of my youth there, and most of the other half in southeastern New Mexico (Carlsbad and Roswell). I graduated from high school in Elko, Nevada and went to the University of New Mexico where I received a Bachelor’s Degree in Latin American Studies and Spanish and a Master’s Degree with major concentrations in International Business and Brazilian Culture and Literature. I spent time living in Mexico and Brazil and travelling extensively throughout Latin America during my college years, learning to speak Spanish and Portuguese.

Professionally I spent nearly a decade in broadcast journalism as an editor, producer, executive producer and reporter for NBC, Telemundo and Univision. I also worked as communications coordinator for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Justice for Immigrants Campaign in Washington, DC for a time. I moved to El Paso in June of 2010 to take a job as a reporter for Noticias 26 Univision, but my first experience working in public service came when I was hired by former State Senator Jose Rodriguez in 2011. I spent nearly four years working on issues such as healthcare, veterans, economic development, government organization, labor, transportation and more in his office as I also served as a Bilingual Media Relations Specialist and Binational Affairs Liaison. I think my work covering local and state government as a journalist and my experience in the Senator’s office greatly prepared me for my work as the County Commissioner for Precinct 2.