{"id":27590,"date":"2011-03-23T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=27590"},"modified":"2011-03-28T20:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T02:48:35","slug":"county-commission-delays-vote-on-censure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/county-commission-delays-vote-on-censure\/","title":{"rendered":"County commission delays vote on censure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27379\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27379 \" title=\"Duarte-Benavidez, Leticia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Duarte-Benavidez-Leticia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commissioner Leticia Duarte-Benavidez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Do\u00f1a Ana County Commissioners opted on Tuesday to delay a vote on whether to censure Commissioner\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaanacounty.org\/commissioners\/district5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leticia Duarte-Benavidez<\/a>, saying they need to hear more from employees who accuse her of interfering in county personnel matters involving a family member and her campaign treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_17678624\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> has the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe commission, in a 5-0 vote, decided instead to ask county management to create a more-detailed, written report that includes testimony from the employees who made the allegations, as well as a response from Duarte-Benavidez. The document will then be sent to the commission before it again takes up the proposed censure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/county-commissioner-facing-possible-censure\/\" target=\"_blank\">As I reported last week<\/a>, county management already detailed the allegations in <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Documents\/DACBenavidezResolution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the censure resolution<\/a>, but the names of employees making the accusations \u2013 and those Duarte-Benavidez was allegedly trying to help \u2013 were left out.<\/p>\n<p>Duarte-Benavidez denied the allegations against her at Tuesday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deny, deny, deny, and there are people who are willing to testify on my behalf, regarding these allegations,\u201d the Sun-News quoted her as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners did not make clear when they will consider the proposed censure again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do\u00f1a Ana County Commissioners opted on Tuesday to delay a vote on whether to censure Commissioner Leticia Duarte-Benavidez, saying they need to hear more from employees who accuse her of interfering in county personnel matters involving a family member and her campaign treasurer.<\/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":[115],"class_list":["post-27590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-dona-ana-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27590","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=27590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}