{"id":22107,"date":"2010-10-01T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=22107"},"modified":"2010-10-01T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T16:17:30","slug":"denish-voted-to-give-contract-to-business-owned-by-mfa-employee%e2%80%99s-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/10\/denish-voted-to-give-contract-to-business-owned-by-mfa-employee%e2%80%99s-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Denish voted to give contract to business owned by MFA employee\u2019s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21784\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21784\" title=\"Denish, Diane\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Denish-Diane1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane Denish<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Democratic gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/\">Diane Denish<\/a> has been hammering her GOP opponent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a>, because the district attorney office Martinez runs bought office supplies from a business owned by an employee.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Denish, as chair of the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority, voted in 2003 to give a no-bid contract to a business owned by the wife of an employee.<\/p>\n<p>The Albuquerque Journal reported on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/elex\/2010generalelection\/2010governorrace\/272331402010governorrace09-27-10.htm\">on Monday<\/a>, but I haven\u2019t had time to blog it until now.<\/p>\n<p>From the Journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDenish voted to give a no-bid, software contract worth $130,000 to a company owned by the wife of Galen Shipman, then an employee with the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority\u2019s information systems department. Denish, in her role as lieutenant governor, is chairwoman of the MFA board.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Martinez has accused Denish of hypocrisy for criticizing her while she\u2019s done the same thing. But Denish told the Journal that there\u2019s a big difference between that and what Martinez did:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is apples to oranges,\u201d Denish said. \u201cI had no relationship with this employee. Susana Martinez gave a contract to somebody who was her deputy, who she was friends with, who is a campaign donor to her. We had a process. There is no evidence of any review process in the Do\u00f1a Ana County district attorney\u2019s office for giving a sole-source contract.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/elex\/2010generalelection\/2010governorrace\/272331402010governorrace09-27-10.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish has been hammering her GOP opponent because the office Susana Martinez runs bought office supplies from a business owned by an employee. It turns out that Denish, as chair of the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority, voted in 2003 to give a no-bid contract to a business owned by the wife of an employee.<\/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":[108,107],"class_list":["post-22107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107","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=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}