{"id":10531,"date":"2009-12-21T11:23:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=10531"},"modified":"2009-12-21T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T18:23:50","slug":"reporter-guv-sets-up-a-%e2%80%98double-fire-wall%e2%80%99-to-block-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/12\/reporter-guv-sets-up-a-%e2%80%98double-fire-wall%e2%80%99-to-block-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter: Guv sets up a \u2018double fire wall\u2019 to block access"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8142\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 325px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8142\" title=\"Richardson-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson-41.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)\" width=\"325\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson-41.jpg 325w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson-41-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Albuquerque Journal\u2019s Thomas J. Cole called out the governor this weekend for talking the talk when it comes to issues of open government but failing \u2013 at least at times &#8212; to walk the walk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right to have an open, accessible and accountable government provides the opportunity for the people to determine if public servants are fulfilling their duty,\u201d Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\">Bill Richardson<\/a> said in 2005, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/upfront\/1901022upfront12-19-09.htm\">Cole\u2019s article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cole wrote about the governor, when he took office, bringing on \u201can unprecedented number of political appointees, many of them former members of the media, across government to serve as public-information officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir job is to facilitate access to government but have too often served as a fire wall for Richardson, at times blocking media access to the actual decision-makers and experts in government and requiring formal requests for the most basic of government records,\u201d the article states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my case, Gilbert Gallegos, the governor\u2019s combative press secretary, has gone a step further, recently ordering public-information officers throughout government not to speak to me. That\u2019s a double fire wall,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Guess I\u2019m not the only one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/08\/blacklisting-journalists-is-petty\/\">having problems<\/a> with the Richardson administration\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albuquerque Journal\u2019s Thomas J. Cole called out the governor this weekend for talking the talk when it comes to issues of open government but failing \u2013 at least at times &#8212; to walk the walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[112,134,111,107],"class_list":["post-10531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-richardson","tag-media","tag-open-government","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531","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=10531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}