{"id":41551,"date":"2012-07-18T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T20:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=41551"},"modified":"2012-07-18T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T20:08:40","slug":"sunshine-group-to-talk-with-rogers-about-board-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/07\/sunshine-group-to-talk-with-rogers-about-board-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine group to talk with Rogers about board membership"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pat<\/a>

Pat Rogers<\/p><\/div>\n

The N.M. Foundation for Open Government<\/a> plans to meet with Pat Rogers to discuss his membership on the group\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in the process of scheduling a meeting with Pat to discuss the issue,\u201d FOG Executive Director Gwyneth Doland (a former NMPolitics.net reporter<\/a>) told me today. \u201cPat has asked to be screened from internal NMFOG communications until we meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogers is one of 24 members of FOG\u2019s board of directors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I recently argued in a commentary<\/a> that, for the sake of FOG\u2019s integrity, Rogers\u2019 tenure on the board must end. That\u2019s because, I wrote, his recent actions \u201chelped create the appearance that the Martinez administration\u2019s controversial contract with the Downs at Albuquerque was an insider deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

From that column:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what the Downs deal looks like: A company that gave lots of money to Republican Gov.\u00a0Susana Martinez\u2019s<\/a>\u00a02010 campaign won a state contract after hiring a GOP insider (Rogers) who was communicating privately about the contract, before it was awarded, with people close to Martinez.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coverage of Rogers\u2019 interaction with people close to Martinez has continued. Today, the Santa Fe Reporter published two articles that you can read here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rogers, as I wrote in my column, \u201c\u00a0is an excellent sunshine lawyer who is a past president of the\u00a0N.M. Foundation for Open Government<\/a>\u00a0(FOG), a current board member, and a 2004 recipient of the organization\u2019s Dixon Award for fighting for open government.\u201d He\u2019s also the\u00a0Republican National committeeman<\/a>\u00a0for New Mexico and a former general counsel for the state GOP.<\/p>\n

For disclosure, this site is an annual donor<\/a> to FOG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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