Martin Resendiz
Instead of being in the office during his last few months as Sunland Park mayor, Martin Resendiz traveled on the city’s dime and on official business, but he admits he botched one trip across the country to lobby for a border crossing.
From the Albuquerque Journal:
“The $2,375 trip was flubbed because, after a three-day drive to the nation’s capital, Resendiz said, he got lost in the city and missed his Dec. 1 appointment with New Mexico Rep. Steve Pearce to drum up support for Sunland Park’s longstanding effort to open a new border crossing to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
“…Though the purpose of the trip was to drum up congressional support for the port of entry project, Resendiz said he did not schedule in advance meetings with any other members of the state’s delegation. Of that visit, Resendiz initially told the Journal: “We met with the staff for Pearce.”
“A day later, Pearce’s spokeswoman said Resendiz had missed not only the scheduled appointment with Pearce, but a subsequent, unscheduled meeting with a staffer that was attended by Resendiz’s assistant, who had been fired the previous summer and had no official standing with the city.
“Resendiz said he missed that brief meeting with the Pearce staffer because he had left in a fruitless attempt to set up a meeting with Texas Rep. Sylvestre Reyes, a Democrat from El Paso.”
There’s more. Read the full article here.