{"id":128559,"date":"2016-02-17T18:54:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=128559"},"modified":"2016-02-17T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:54:06","slug":"ivey-soto-on-defense-over-ethics-commission-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/02\/ivey-soto-on-defense-over-ethics-commission-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivey-Soto on defense over ethics commission criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto, D-Albuquerque, said Wednesday<\/span><\/span> he is getting a bum rap over this week’s sudden death of a proposed amendment to the N.M.\u00a0Constitution to create a state ethics commission.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Ivey-Soto<\/p><\/div>\n

Rep. Jim Dines, R-Albuquerque, withdrew the proposal from the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday<\/span><\/span> after he was presented with a committee substitute that he said would have made his bill “a toothless tiger.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Ivey-Soto, a member of the Senate Rules Committee, told reporters at a news conference, “It is our responsibility to make sure that the bills that come across are appropriate, are thought out and will be implemented in a way that the public expects.”<\/p>\n

Ivey-Soto reiterated that Dines didn’t have to withdraw his proposal. The senator also said he never actually saw the printed version of the committee substitute that Dines objected to. Ivey-Soto said that proposal came from suggestions from several Rules Committee members in informal meetings or “conversations.”<\/p>\n

The substitute was unacceptable, a Common Cause New Mexico spokeswoman said earlier this week, because “There would be no transparency, no public hearings, no ability to adjudicate cases.” Common Cause New Mexico, a government watchdog group, for nearly a decade has advocated for creation of an ethics commission. Others have also criticized the substitute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque, who chairs Senate Rules, expects an interim subcommittee will discuss ethics commission legislation for next year.<\/p>\n

This article comes from The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>. NMPolitics.net is paying for the rights to publish articles about the 2016 legislative session from the newspaper. Help us cover the cost by\u00a0making a donation to NMPolitics.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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