{"id":1029,"date":"2006-12-20T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/secretaries-of-state-trade-barbs-over-budget\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T20:11:00","slug":"secretaries-of-state-trade-barbs-over-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/secretaries-of-state-trade-barbs-over-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretaries of state trade barbs over budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The outgoing and incoming secretaries of state, both Democratic women, are caught in a war of words over the office\u2019s budget and which one of them is stupider.<\/p>\n

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Secretary of State-elect Mary Herrera says her predecessor is leaving the office with a $225,000 operating deficit, according to the Albuquerque Tribune<\/a>. Outgoing Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron says she is leaving a surplus and, if Herrera \u201chad any brains in her head,\u201d she would know that, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

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The state Department of Finance and Administration will look into the situation, but won\u2019t likely get to the secretary of state\u2019s budget until next week.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The office\u2019s budget is almost $4.5 million. Herrera showed the Tribune a budget worksheet dated Dec. 12 that indicates a deficit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m not making this up,\u201d she told the Tribune. \u201cI\u2019m going off the documents I was given by DFA.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vigil-Giron told the newspaper those projections are outdated and provided a new worksheet that shows a $200,000 surplus.<\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t the first time the two women have publicly fought. Herrera has criticized Vigil-Giron\u2019s handling of elections repeatedly and called her incompetent. Vigil-Giron told the newspaper Herrera is trying to destroy her reputation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBecause she has no reputation, she\u2019s trying to destroy mine. That\u2019s her persona,\u201d Vigil-Giron told the Tribune. \u201cI think the party needs to take an issue with the way she\u2019s attacking a fellow Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Tribune article also revealed that the office has a separate issue – $2.2 million in unpaid bills from the 2006 election. Apparently, at least according to Vigil-Giron, the Legislature didn\u2019t appropriate the money last year, and told her to come back and ask for more money once the final cost was known.<\/p>\n

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A $2.2 million emergency request will go before the Legislature in January, the Tribune reported.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s the only deficiency I have, and it\u2019s because the Legislature didn\u2019t fully fund the election,\u201d Vigil-Giron told the newspaper. \u201cThe next time the Legislature wants the secretary of state to do something, they should give us the money to do it. But they prefer to make us go back and beg. It\u2019s pretty ridiculous.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The outgoing and incoming secretaries of state, both Democratic women, are caught in a war of words over the office\u2019s budget and which one of them is stupider. Secretary of State-elect Mary Herrera says her predecessor is leaving the office with a $225,000 operating deficit, according to the Albuquerque Tribune. Outgoing Secretary of State Rebecca […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}