Breaking Bread: Martin Heinrich
Disco in the Desert: At the Elena Gallegos Open Space in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich and Alexander Hefner, host of PBS’s The Open Mind, sit down for a meal of elk fajitas. Heinrich bemoans the lack of bipartisanship as well as income inequality since the January 6 insurrection. He emphasizes that affordable, clean energy is not only good environmental policy, but also central to America’s future. Breaking Bread is a series that aims to find common ground in a deeply divided America. Journalist Alexander Hefner travels from Maine to New Mexico, dining and chatting candidly with powerful political figures on both sides of the aisle. Hefner wants to attract lawmakers by encouraging empathy and compromise in the search for a new consensus.