{"id":1056,"date":"2007-01-04T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/herrera-wants-audit-of-2006-election-expenses\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T17:03:00","slug":"herrera-wants-audit-of-2006-election-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/herrera-wants-audit-of-2006-election-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Herrera wants audit of 2006 election expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RZ0z6QjA8jI\/AAAAAAAAAOw\/YPmN7UL0AEc\/s1600-h\/Herrera,+Mary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RZ0z6QjA8jI\/AAAAAAAAAOw\/YPmN7UL0AEc\/s200\/Herrera,+Mary.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016222635927859762\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>New Secretary of State Mary Herrera wants an audit of how millions of federal dollars were spent by her predecessor on the 2006 election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> used most of the $9 million from the Help America Vote Act on new equipment, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/526038nm01-04-07.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a>, but also spent money on a myriad of television advertisements featuring former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Before leaving office last month, Vigil-Giron asked for $800,000 in state money to pay for some of the equipment expenses because her office ran out of federal money, the Journal reported. Vigil-Giron has been criticized since then for spending money on television commercials featuring her own face instead of on the equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Though the two women have been fighting publicly for months, a spokesman for Herrera told the Journal that the request that the state auditor examine the situation is not an attack on her predecessor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis is strictly about the smartest, prudent thing to do,\u201d spokesman James Flores told the Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">State Auditor Hector Balderas told the newspaper Herrera could hire an independent auditor or ask that the office\u2019s annual audit focus on how the state spent the federal money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Secretary of State Mary Herrera wants an audit of how millions of federal dollars were spent by her predecessor on the 2006 election. New Mexico used most of the $9 million from the Help America Vote Act on new equipment, according to the Albuquerque Journal, but also spent money on a myriad of television [&hellip;]<\/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-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","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=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}