{"id":10160,"date":"2009-12-11T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=10160"},"modified":"2009-12-11T08:36:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:36:34","slug":"padilla-will-keep-obama-post-afterall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/12\/padilla-will-keep-obama-post-afterall\/","title":{"rendered":"Padilla pleads no contest to DWI, will keep job in Obama administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10162\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Padilla-Cindy1.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Padilla\" title=\"Padilla-Cindy\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10162\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Padilla<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The former secretary of New Mexico&#8217;s Aging and Long-term Services Department will be starting a similar post in the Obama administration next month after recently pleading no contest to drunken driving.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Padilla, who was arrested on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/former-state-official%e2%80%99s-federal-job-in-question-after-dwi-arrest\/\">suspicion of drunk driving <\/a>in Santa Fe on Oct. 24, will start her job as deputy assistant secretary on aging in the\u00a0<a style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #424242; text-decoration: underline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/aging\/\">U.S. Health and Humans Services Department<\/a> &#8220;within a few weeks,&#8221; according to a department spokeswoman who spoke with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/Local%20News\/Ex-state-official-pleads-no-contest-to-DWI\">Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say 48-year-old Padilla received a deferred sentence on Nov. 19 after she plead no contest to her first DWI offense. She had been arrested three days after accepting the post in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after her arrest, Gov. Bill Richardson&#8217;s chief of staff,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #424242\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\/press\/2008\/july\/072908_02.pdf\">Brian Condit<\/a>,<\/span> asked Padilla to resign her state post.<\/p>\n<p><em>St. Cyr is a contributing writer for this site and <span>a <\/span>reporter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.770kkob.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #424242\">770KKOB.com<\/span><\/a>. He can be reached at <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"mailto:peter.stcyr@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #424242\">peter.stcyr@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former secretary of New Mexico&#8217;s Aging and Long-term Services Department will be starting a similar post in the Obama administration next month after recently pleading no contest to drunken driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[107,116],"class_list":["post-10160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}