{"id":448,"date":"2006-08-09T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/in-a-shift-torres-says-she-plans-to-hire-new-elections-supervisor-before-november\/"},"modified":"2006-08-09T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:28:00","slug":"in-a-shift-torres-says-she-plans-to-hire-new-elections-supervisor-before-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/in-a-shift-torres-says-she-plans-to-hire-new-elections-supervisor-before-november\/","title":{"rendered":"In a shift, Torres says she plans to hire new elections supervisor before November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Torres%2C%20Rita.3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Torres%2C%20Rita.3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Uncertainty about who will oversee the rapidly approaching November general election continues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Shortly after the June primary, <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> fired its elections supervisor, Mari Langford. Clerk Rita Torres placed her chief deputy, Cecilia Madrid, in charge of the elections bureau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Torres said at the time she would not hire an elections supervisor before November, and said she and <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> would handle the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But at Tuesday\u2019s commission meeting, Torres said she will hire a new supervisor before the November election, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/news\/ci_4154099\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Commissioner Bill McCamley asked the clerk how soon a supervisor would be hired. Torres said her office is \u201cworking on getting one as soon as we can,\u201d but she didn\u2019t know \u201cexactly when\u201d the job would be posted, the Sun-News reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the same time, Torres defended <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> and elections bureau employees as capable of handling the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So to clarify, McCamley asked again, and Torres said she would hire an elections supervisor before the November election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">County Manager Brian Haines told the Sun-News after the meeting that he takes that as Torres\u2019 request for county staff to post the job, so that will soon happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Haines told the commission he has offered Torres legal help, additional staffers or the hiring of an outside consultant to help ensure the election runs smoothly. <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>\u2019s elections have been plagued by problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">McCamley said he wanted to keep the option of a consultant on the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cRita, this is not in any way a slight on your abilities at all,\u201d the Sun-News quoted McCamley as saying. \u201cIt\u2019s just we\u2019re going through a change in the bureau of elections, and if there\u2019s anything this board can do to help, it\u2019s my opinion we need to do that.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertainty about who will oversee the rapidly approaching November general election continues. Shortly after the June primary, Do\u00f1a Ana County fired its elections supervisor, Mari Langford. Clerk Rita Torres placed her chief deputy, Cecilia Madrid, in charge of the elections bureau. Torres said at the time she would not hire an elections supervisor before November, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}