{"id":740,"date":"2006-10-18T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/magistrate-judge-candidates-trade-barbs\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T19:46:00","slug":"magistrate-judge-candidates-trade-barbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/magistrate-judge-candidates-trade-barbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Magistrate judge candidates trade barbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Republican candidate in the Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> Ana<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> magistrate judge Division II race attacked his opponent at Tuesday\u2019s League of Women Voters forum. <\/p>\n

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Republican Steve Foldy said he does not consider Democrat Joseph Guillory an incumbent, even though Gov. Bill Richardson appointed Guillory to the bench four months ago. Foldy, a corporal with the sheriff\u2019s department, said he is more versed in the law than Guillory, who was recently endorsed by the Las Cruces Sun-News.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Sun-News may not have a good track record when it comes to endorsements,\u201d Foldy said, making a reference to former Magistrate Judge Reuben Galvan, who resigned last year amid rape and bribery allegations. Galvan had been endorsed by the newspaper.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Guillory said Foldy has lots of ideas about changes he wants to make, but lacks the knowledge to implement them.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy opponent wants to do a lot of things in this position he knows nothing about,\u201d Guillory said, adding that he does have some law enforcement training.<\/p>\n

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Guillory said his four months on the bench give him much better experience than that touted by Foldy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a lot to learn, and thank God I have a good mentor in Judge (Oscar) Frietze,\u201d Guillory said.<\/p>\n

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Frietze is the court\u2019s chief presiding judge. With the exception of suspended Magistrate Judge Carlos Garza, all magistrates attended the forum. The four Democrats (five, if you count Garza) are all up for re-election this year, but only Guillory is opposed.<\/p>\n

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For the remainder of Tuesday\u2019s forum, Guillory and the other Democrats opted to let Frietze speak for them, so the forum became a back-and-forth between Frietze and Foldy.<\/p>\n

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Frietze said the biggest challenge the court faces is its small, old building, but pointed out that the state is currently seeking bids for an architect to design a new facility. The new building is set to be completed in July 2008.<\/p>\n

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Foldy complained about \u201cthe long lines\u201d at the court and the fact that current building has only one entrance and exit. To deal with the problems, he said, all five judges have to work well together.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou sit back, you watch, you listen you ask a lot of questions,\u201d he said of being a new judge.<\/p>\n

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Frietze said that, until the new building is complete, there\u2019s not much that can be done to improve the situation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe best that we can do is what we\u2019re doing at this point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Foldy said having all five judges at work would help, referring to Garza, Galvan and others who have been on suspension or resigned before their terms were up. Because of various scandals, three or four judges have been doing the work of five on and off for several years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s difficult enough when you have judges who have personal problems and are unable to do the job and increase the caseload of other judges,\u201d Foldy said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican candidate in the Do\u00f1a Ana County magistrate judge Division II race attacked his opponent at Tuesday\u2019s League of Women Voters forum. Republican Steve Foldy said he does not consider Democrat Joseph Guillory an incumbent, even though Gov. Bill Richardson appointed Guillory to the bench four months ago. Foldy, a corporal with the sheriff\u2019s […]<\/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-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}