{"id":4659,"date":"2009-06-17T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/how-times-change-segura-now-works-for-the-county\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T15:18:00","slug":"how-times-change-segura-now-works-for-the-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/how-times-change-segura-now-works-for-the-county\/","title":{"rendered":"How times change: Segura now works for the county"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do\u00f1a Ana County<\/a> has made what to some is an eyebrow-raising hire in its Health and Human Services Department.<\/p>\n

Eyebrow-raising because it\u2019s former Sunland Park Mayor Jesus \u201cRuben\u201d Segura. The Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> is reporting that he\u2019s been making $51,396.80 annually as the head of one of five divisions in the department since he began work on May 26.<\/p>\n

Segura, who shocked the local political scene in January 2008 when he didn\u2019t file<\/a> to seek a fourth term in office, left the Sunland Park job in March of that year.<\/p>\n

According to the Sun-News, he will \u201coversee a DWI grant program, meant to ensure DWI violators comply with their sentencing terms, and a pool of health-care dollars meant to improve access for uninsured and underinsured in the county.\u201d<\/p>\n

Silvia Sierra, the director of that county department, told the Sun-News that Segura has a master\u2019s degree in public administration and has done a good job thus far.<\/p>\n

Segura and county officials have a long and controversial history because of a fight over the development of Santa Teresa, a community west of Sunland Park. Growth there was tied up in legal battles for more than a decade until Segura and Do\u00f1a Ana County commissioners struck a deal in 2006 that gave both governments a say in the process. Before that happened, Segura led protesters in burning \u201cRichardson for Governor\u201d T-shirts in front of a television camera because the governor backed a plan that would have left Sunland Park out of the process.<\/p>\n

Segura\u2019s fight with the county included standing up to a threat of arrest when the sheriff\u2019s department showed up to stop the city from digging a utility line along a state highway. The city and county were racing to provide services to the Santa Teresa area and the county commission had, earlier that day in 1997, approved a moratorium on such development in a meeting that may have been held without the required public notification.<\/p>\n

When Segura refused to stop construction, he was arrested. The charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n

After leaving elected office, Segura started a south-county newspaper<\/a> last September, but it folded<\/a> several months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do\u00f1a Ana County has made what to some is an eyebrow-raising hire in its Health and Human Services Department. Eyebrow-raising because it\u2019s former Sunland Park Mayor Jesus \u201cRuben\u201d Segura. The Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting that he\u2019s been making $51,396.80 annually as the head of one of five divisions in the department since he began […]<\/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-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","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=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}