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They call her Susana Tejana, referencing the basis for her campaign money. She is not well-liked in the state.
Once police arrived on scene, Martinez told them they were "eating pizza and drinking cokes, and whoever was throwing bottles is not there, hasn’t been there for like six hours.”
So, she doesn’t dispute they were being noisy, just that no one was (currently) throwing bottles off the balcony? And proceeds to berate the cops for doing their jobs?
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In the audio files, you can hear Martinez aggressively asking for information on the person who placed the noise complaint.
She couldn’t just ask her state police bodyguards to find out the info?
…and who 's paying for the 6+ hour pizza binge?
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Why in the hell did the complaint that is available here (or elsewhere I imagine) allow the person, calling in to complain, not have her name or phone number shielded for her own protection? Seeing how the Governor already has a bug up her ass and a vindictive streak to go after the person complaining, and a willingness to throw her weight around by way of her position, that seems like very bad form to not cut out the information about the caller on the recording. Just not good.
Edit: And btw, in the article it says:
"I apologize to the people of New Mexico, that was not appropriate,”
What’s inappropriate? Calling the cops and harassing them to release information she’s not entitled to, throwing bottles off the balcony at her party, carrying on loud intrusive partying that upset hotel guests, or being a passive-aggressive bitch on the phone with the police while trying to get information by virtue of her position?
Can she be anymore specific???
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after attending a 6 hour GOP office party, please someone, throw me off the balcony.
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“No vice presidency for you!”
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Why not identify that she is the current chairperson of the Republican Governors Association in the article?
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She’s not particularly well-liked even in Dona Ana County, where she was the 3rd Judicial District DA. (And a political opportunist even before she became DA.)
The only place in the state where Susana Tejana is pretty well-liked is in Little Texas. (For those unfamiliar with the political geography of the Land of Enchantment, Little Texas is the east side of the state.) She’s well enough liked in the rest of the state to get re-elected.
But I’d say this incident crosses her off anybody’s short list of R Veep candidates.
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“It’s not my fault – I was drunk at the time … from drinking all of those cokes … cuz we didn’t have any alcohol at our party … including those bottles that were tossed over the balcony from our hotel room.”
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Yeah, nobody much likes Walker, McCrory, Bivens, Brownback,or LaPage either, and yet they win. If only all the people who didn’t like them would get out and vote against them.
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I think I’ll now say “peeetza” whenever I order pizza. How interesting this happened within just a few days of her former Secretary of State being sentenced for embezzlement and fraud (and having to spend 30 whole days in jail with the rest of her sentence suspended).
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Once police arrived on scene, Martinez told them they were "eating pizza and drinking cokes, and whoever was throwing bottles is not there, hasn’t been there for like six hours.”
So she admits someone was throwing bottles out of a window, and presumably, she knows who that person is.
Why is the Governor, the chief law enforcement person in the state allowing this to happen? And why is she more concerned about the whistleblower than the person who perpetrated the crime?
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So sadly true. Here in California a state senator named Leland Yee was on the ballot (printing had been early couldn’t be re-done) even though he was under indictment for financial shenanigans and had been removed from the office, and he got a good number of votes anyway. He had name recognition, and that’s what all these unlikeable people have.
@pshah I usually drink several glasses of red wine with my pizza, she and the gang had probably been doing something similar.
From the statement issued by her office:
“On Saturday evening, the Governor held her annual staff holiday party in a hotel ballroom. There was a live band, food, dancing, and more than 200 guests.”
Whaaaaat??? A ***“Holiday Party”***??? WTF is up with that? They had an evil, secular, liberal Holiday Party? What’s going on, Governor? Are you ashamed of Baby Jesus? Are you even a God fearing Christian? Maybe you are even a closet “mooslem” or something? What exactly is your “Reason For The Season”? When did you become an atheist? Do you sacrifice animals to Satan? This is an OUTRAGE!!!
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Ah, but that wasn’t referenced in the article, though you may well be correct. All they mentioned were Coke bottles, by which I, perhaps incorrectly,assumed Coca Cola.
A Christmas party where they were drinking “cokes”? She’s trying to clean up what they were actually drinking, and there’s no harm in that, but it sounds like she didn’t want that to get out.
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As much as I’d love to credit Susana with Diana Duran, the fact is that New Mexico elects the Sec’t’y of State. Now, it is true that Duran and Susana had compatible goals and worked closely to bias the electoral system towards R’s.
Despite that, Duran wasn’t Martinez’s Sec’t’y of State any more than Hector Balderas is Martinez’s Attorney General. (Incidentally, I’m pretty Balderas’s office has caught a bunch of flak over the Duran affair. The prosecutors didn’t ask for any jail time – they asked for restitution.)
The judge sentenced Duran to 7 years. He then suspended all but 30 days, contingent on her making restitution, writing and delivering apologies to her campaign donors, and making four mea culpa appearances before schools and civic groups per month for the next four years. That’s basically 200 times in the next four years that she gets to stand before the public, apologize for fucking up badly and then explaining the adverse effects her fuck ups have had on the body politic.
If Duran is like most politicians (and she is – Otero County is right next door to Dona Ana County, which is my old stomping ground), I imagine she’d almost rather spend the next three and a half years at Grants (the Women’s Correctional Facilty). There were rumors going around that she was going to revoke her plea and ask for a trial. Someone told her to be smart for once and (surprisingly) succeeded.
I for one applaud the Judge for developing a sentence appropriate to the crime.
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I’m guessing that she would be the choice of Jeb! if he go the nomination.