{"id":19851,"date":"2010-07-23T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T19:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=19851"},"modified":"2010-07-26T08:07:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T14:07:19","slug":"denish%e2%80%99s-office-removes-news-releases-from-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/07\/denish%e2%80%99s-office-removes-news-releases-from-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Denish\u2019s office removes news releases from Web site"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lt. Gov. Diane Denish (Photo by Heath Haussamen<\/p><\/div>\n

Lt. Gov. Diane Denish\u2019s government Web site<\/a> used to contain news releases that had been sent out by her office during her tenure, but the releases were deleted from the Web site earlier this month and are no longer available on the Internet.<\/p>\n

In fact, if you click on Denish news release links that Google has archived based on where the releases used to be located, you now get error messages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Denish\u2019s chief of staff, Joshua Rosen, wrote in an e-mail that the news releases were removed from the Web site on July 3 because they were \u201cold news\u201d and \u201carchived.\u201d He said it\u2019s the first time during his tenure \u2013 which began in December 2007 \u2013 that news releases have been removed from the Web site, but he didn\u2019t know if it had been done before that. Denish has been lieutenant governor since 2003.<\/p>\n

Rosen said there was no political reason for removing the news releases.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026just web site maintenance,\u201d Rosen wrote.<\/p>\n

The state GOP<\/a> has another idea about why the news releases were removed. From GOP spokeswoman Janel Causey:<\/p>\n

\u201cOld news, meaning we don\u2019t want the public to know where she stood during the last seven years? Old news, meaning we don\u2019t want our words to come back and haunt us? Old news, meaning our past words and positions can\u2019t stand up to scrutiny?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Denish has touted work on transparency and accessibility<\/h3>\n

Denish is, of course, the Democratic Party\u2019s candidate for governor<\/a>. And she has repeatedly touted on the campaign trail the fact that she pushed for<\/a> and then signed into law<\/a> earlier this year a bill that will create a publicly accessible, online database of financial and other information from government agencies in New Mexico.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what Denish said the day she signed the Sunshine Portal into law:<\/p>\n

\u201cBy signing this bill we are not just creating a Web site; we are giving the public \u2013 the people of\u00a0New Mexico \u2013 information\u00a0they should have had all along. In this day and age \u2013 with technology at our fingertips \u2013 there is no excuse. The time has come for complete transparency in government. When the Sunshine Portal goes live next year, the public will finally have the ability to scrutinize the state\u2019s checkbook in an easy-to-navigate, online format.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The news releases haven\u2019t been destroyed and are still available in the lieutenant governor\u2019s office. Rosen offered, if I was looking for a specific release, to find it and send it to me. But that\u2019s a more cumbersome process than a Web search, especially for a member of the public, so the news releases are less accessible than they were before.<\/p>\n

Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s Web site contains archives of news releases<\/a> his office has sent out since he took office in 2003. So does Land Commissioner Pat Lyons\u2019 Web site<\/a>. The attorney general\u2019s Web site has archived news releases going back to 1999<\/a> \u2013 through the tenures of the current and previous attorneys general.<\/p>\n

The secretary of state\u2019s<\/a> web site doesn\u2019t include news release archives. The state auditor rarely sends out news releases, but a handful are located at this link<\/a> on the auditor\u2019s Web site. I can\u2019t recall the state treasurer\u2019s office ever sending me a news release \u2013 and there are none archived on its Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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