{"id":37789,"date":"2012-03-09T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=37789"},"modified":"2012-03-09T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T20:28:51","slug":"ebid-accuses-king-of-sinister-motive-for-expanding-water-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/03\/ebid-accuses-king-of-sinister-motive-for-expanding-water-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"EBID accuses AG of \u2018sinister\u2019 motive for expanding water lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Attorney<\/a>

Attorney General Gary King (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018It may come down to the fact that there are more votes north of Elephant Butte Lake, which could come in very handy in a statewide political race,\u2019 EBID alleges in response to the latest move by King.<\/h4>\n

The Elephant Butte Irrigation District<\/a> says Attorney General Gary King<\/a> appears to have a \u201csinister\u201d motive for a lawsuit that seeks to void an agreement dividing water between Southern New Mexico and El Paso.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve written about this before. King\u2019s lawsuit, he claims<\/a>, is aimed at making sure \u201cNew Mexico water is protected and that our water users receive their fair share.\u201d The Elephant Butte district, which represents primarily Southern New Mexico farmers, on the other hand, has accused King of \u201cpoliticized hydrology.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a new development, and the district issued an even harsher criticism of King in a Thursday news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe latest legal broadside came when a process server working for the N.M. AG\u2019s office in Santa Fe came slipping in between the pecan trees to deliver a lawsuit to pecan farmer James Salopek, chairman of the EBID,\u201d seeking to invalidate its agreement with the El Paso district, the release states.<\/p>\n

From the release:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe underlying issue here is that the State of New Mexico is soon going to be in a position where they are not making the required deliveries under the Rio Grande Compact to Compact Texas. By seeking to change the method by which certain calculations are made, upstream New Mexico is seeking to put themselves in a better position regarding their required deliveries to Compact Texas, which would have the effect of delivering less water to EBID farmers. The lawsuit was originally filed last year against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation but it has now been expanded by the State to include the local farmers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That last part is what\u2019s new: King expanding the lawsuit \u201cto include the local farmers\u201d in Southern New Mexico.<\/p>\n

Then the harsh part from the EBID release:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EBID board is asking all involved (including the City of Las Cruces) to ask serious questions about these actions which on the surface seem to be a brazen water grab (from his own constituents) by an Attorney General who is attempting to further his political career at the expense of New Mexico agriculture. It may come down to the fact that there are more votes north of Elephant Butte Lake, which could come in very handy in a statewide political race where the issues are complex and the motives appear to be nothing less than sinister.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Elephant Butte Irrigation District says Attorney General Gary King appears to have a \u201csinister\u201d motive for a lawsuit that seeks to void an agreement dividing water between Southern New Mexico and El Paso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[224,107,277],"class_list":["post-37789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-gary-king","tag-roundhouse","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37789","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=37789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}