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2010-03-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Graft, Greed and Waste in State Government: New Mexico Edition

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Posted by Fred 2010-03-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 New Mexico -- so far from heaven, so close to Texas.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-03-03 01:52|| 2010-03-03 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 While the governor might talk your ear off about taxes, education and the Rail Runner, one subject remains off-limits: the political jobs he's handed out and then protected as the state budget plunged into crisis.

Take for example Maxine Otero. The governor got her a job doing secretarial work in the state prison system and set her salary at $60,000 a year to do office work.

That's nearly twice what the state pays a trained correctional officer at the Penitentiary of New Mexico.

But ask questions about her qualifications and how she got the cushy secretarial job, and the governor won't say. Yet there are some clues.

Maxine's father is wealthy Santa Fe contractor Sonny Otero, one of the governor's biggest campaign supporters. Sonny Otero has contributed some $86,000 to Richardson's Democratic campaigns, according to the New York Times.

and more here.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-03 07:14|| 2010-03-03 07:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Bienvenidos a Nuevo Mejico.

Posted by Highlander 2010-03-03 12:22|| 2010-03-03 12:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Land of enchantment.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-03 16:07|| 2010-03-03 16:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Land of Enchantment
Eh, when I went to Albuquerque for NCO Academy in the mid-90s, the other NCOs stationed at bases in New Mexico called it "Land of Entrapment." And IIRC, the city fathers in one particular city (whose only industry was the local AF Base) were referred to bitterly by the military personnel stationed there as "The Shifty Fifty."

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2010-03-03 18:44|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2010-03-03 18:44|| Front Page Top

#6 The unofficial motto is - Land of Flea, Home of the Plague.

Just Google 'New Mexico plague'

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-03 18:54|| 2010-03-03 18:54|| Front Page Top

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