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- ↑ The Mama Lucies were named after Mama Lucy, a lady who ran a coffee shop and helped out poor students at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, Nevada. A group of future state legislators were at the university at the time, and learned from Mama Lucy's compassionate example. [6]
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- ↑ Representative Raymond Sanchez – (D), NM Legislature.
- ↑ Sharp & Sharp 1997, p. 15.
- ↑ Martinez 2009, p. 126.
- ↑ Kousser 2005, p. 62.
- ↑ Kousser 2005, p. 63.
- ↑ Little & Ogle 2006, p. 355.
- ↑ Robertson 2013.
- ↑ Fluharty 2013.
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