{"id":26035,"date":"2011-02-13T21:13:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T04:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=26035"},"modified":"2011-02-13T21:13:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T04:13:55","slug":"highs-and-lows-for-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/02\/highs-and-lows-for-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Highs and lows for Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gov. Susana Martinez<\/p><\/div>\n

The challenges of the last couple of weeks have brought some highs and lows for Gov. Susana Martinez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First the high. Martinez essentially passed the test in the way she handled a record-breaking storm that hit New Mexico and knocked out natural gas to many communities, The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n

From the article:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018I can\u2019t see what she could have done better,\u2019 said Taos Mayor Darren C\u00f3rdova. \u2018I would give her an A-plus.\u2019
\n\u201c\u2026In Espa\u00f1ola, Mayor Alice Lucero said residents would have been worse off had Martinez not been so proactive.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Had it not been for her intervention, I think we really could have been off a lot longer,\u2019 Lucero said.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018With the information she had, she did the best she could,\u2019 she added.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then the low: While Martinez didn\u2019t know that her then-nominee to head the Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, Harrison Schmitt, had refused a required Senate background check, The New Mexican reports that Martinez\u2019s administration knew exactly what was going on<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen reporters asked Gov. Susana Martinez about Harrison Schmitt refusing to sign papers authorizing a background check \u2013 a refusal that led to him withdrawing his nomination for a cabinet position \u2013 she said Thursday that she’d only learned of the development a few moments before.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, an e-mail from Schmitt obtained Friday by The New Mexican\u00a0indicates that Schmitt informed Martinez aides at least four days earlier.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That raises some serious questions\u2026 the primary one being, if Martinez\u2019s office knew one of her nominees was about to create a controversy for her, why didn\u2019t anyone tell her? And why didn\u2019t the administration deal with the situation before it became a public controversy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The challenges of the last couple of weeks have brought some highs and lows for Gov. 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":[107],"class_list":["post-26035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26035","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=26035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}