{"id":18917,"date":"2010-06-30T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T13:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=18917"},"modified":"2010-06-30T10:26:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T16:26:33","slug":"dems-call-for-one-firing-but-not-another-over-%e2%80%98hateful%e2%80%99-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/06\/dems-call-for-one-firing-but-not-another-over-%e2%80%98hateful%e2%80%99-e-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems call for one firing, but not another, over \u2018hateful\u2019 e-mail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Javier Gonzales<\/p><\/div>\n

Update, 10:25 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In response to this posting, Democratic Party spokesman James Hallinan sent this clarification:<\/p>\n

\u201cChairman Gonzales believes any state employee who sent or forwarded this racist email should no longer work for the State of New Mexico.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Original post:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The state Democratic Party is calling on GOP gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez<\/a> to fire a prosecutor who forwarded an e-mail joke about killing a Mexican and an Arab, but it hasn\u2019t called for the firing of the employee of another state agency who sent the e-mail to that prosecutor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people of\u00a0New Mexico\u00a0must trust their\u00a0law enforcement officials, not fear them. The\u00a0racial slurs\u00a0in this joke about our Hispanic and Middle Eastern communities are absolutely unacceptable and not conducive to making people feel safe,\u201d Democratic Party Chairman Javier Gonzales said in a news release. \u201cHate breeds hate, and I urge Ms. Martinez to take immediate action and terminate all state employees in her office who sent this violent and hateful email.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gonzales made no mention of the employee of the state Administrative Office of the District Attorneys<\/a> who sent the e-mail to the prosecutor in Martinez\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

The e-mail, which you can read here<\/a> courtesy of Democracy for New Mexico<\/a>, is undoubtedly inappropriate and offensive. It starts with a Mexican and an Arab in a bar drinking beers (nonalcoholic for the Arab because he\u2019s a Muslim). Both shoot their glasses, with the Mexican describing how cheap glasses are in Mexico and the Arab saying there\u2019s so much sand to make glass where he\u2019s from that he, like the Mexican, never has to drink from the same glass twice.<\/p>\n

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Then a New Mexico girl shoots the Mexican and Arab and says, \u201cIn New Mexico, we have so many illegal aliens we don\u2019t have to drink with the same ones twice.\u201d The e-mail ends with the line, \u201cGod bless New Mexico and that particular New Mexican girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martinez hasn\u2019t commented on the issue, but the chief deputy district attorney in her office, Susan Reidel, told The Associated Press<\/a> and New Mexico Independent<\/a> that the prosecutor who forwarded the e-mail from her government account, Lisa Kuykendall, had been reprimanded.<\/p>\n

Reidel wouldn\u2019t go into detail with The Independent about what the reprimand entailed, calling it a personnel matter.<\/p>\n

Martinez was unaware of the e-mail until contacted about it by the news service, Reidel was quoted by the AP as saying. She took disciplinary action after seeing a copy.<\/p>\n

The news service quoted the deputy director of the Administrative Office of the DAs as saying his agency is reviewing the situation to decide what steps to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATED: In response to this posting, the state Democratic Party chairman says \u201cany state employee\u201d who sent or forwarded an e-mail joke about killing a Mexican and an Arab should \u201cno longer work for the state.\u201d The chairman originally only called for the firing of a prosecutor who works for GOP gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez.<\/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":[108,140,143,107],"class_list":["post-18917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-border-and-immigration","tag-race-and-ethnicity","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917","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=18917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}