New Mexico Hall-0f-Fame broadcaster Frank Haley reports for FGGAM: 
Pat Baca, 87, was elected to the Albuquerque city council in 1974, the year the city instituted the modern council/mayor form of government. He had a 39 year career in education as a teacher and principal. In 1989 Baca, a Democrat, ran for mayor of Albuquerque and lost to Louis Saavedra.
Sam King also died over the holiday weekend. With fellow rancher brothers Don and Bruce they formed a political powerhouse that saw Bruce King serve longer as governor of New Mexico than anyone in state history. His nephew Gary King was the 2014 Dem Guv nominee. For decades Sam and his brothers entertained the state’s political community with their early morning coffee klatches at El Comedor de Anayas in Moriarty, New Mexico. Sam King was 92.
Let us be in prayer for the families. We thank the Lord for these two men who served the people of New Mexico.