{"id":657,"date":"2006-10-03T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/prc-candidates-dont-like-commissions-secrecy\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T13:56:00","slug":"prc-candidates-dont-like-commissions-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/prc-candidates-dont-like-commissions-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"PRC candidates don’t like commission’s secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Public Regulation Commission has finally made public the list of finalists for insurance superintendent. <\/p>\n

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The PRC has been working to replace Eric Serna since he resigned earlier this year amid scandal.<\/p>\n

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The PRC announced last week that it was negotiating with a candidate, meaning it skipped the step of releasing publicly the \"\"<\/a>names of the finalists. The director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government said that violated the state\u2019s Inspection of Public Records Act, but the PRC still refused.<\/p>\n

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The Albuquerque Journal<\/a> filed a formal request for records, and Monday the PRC complied, releasing the list of finalists. They are Beatriz Rivera, Morris Chavez, Pete Dinelli and Edward Lopez. Ten were considered for the job, according to the Journal.<\/p>\n

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A news conference is set for 11:30 a.m. today. The PRC is expected to announce the new insurance superintendent then.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been negotiating with one of the finalists for days. The PRC refused to release information about the finalist to the Journal, including salary, saying only that the salary discussed is between $54,000 and $117,000.<\/p>\n

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Serna was making $91,000 when the PRC suspended him in May because of conflicts of interest, according to the Journal.<\/p>\n

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The two candidates for PRC District 5, which includes Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, have criticized the PRC for the secrecy of its process.<\/p>\n

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Sandy Jones, the Democrat who knocked off incumbent E. Shirley Baca in the primary, issued a news release stating that he \u201cis concerned about the selection process used by current members\u201d of the PRC.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe recruitment and selection process should be as open and public as possible,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIt is critical that the PRC take the necessary steps to restore public confidence in the insurance division in light of recent events.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Three new commissioners will be elected to the PRC in November. Earl Greer, Jones\u2019 Republican opponent, has called for the PRC to hold off making a decision until those commissioners take office.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere should be more transparency in the entire process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The PRC has never been all that transparent. Hopefully, the successful District 5 candidate will help the sun shine on the commission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Public Regulation Commission has finally made public the list of finalists for insurance superintendent. The PRC has been working to replace Eric Serna since he resigned earlier this year amid scandal. The PRC announced last week that it was negotiating with a candidate, meaning it skipped the step of releasing publicly the names of […]<\/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-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}