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BREAKING:  New Mexico Governor’s attorney ordered state police to spy on political opponent

Officer details directions from Martinez appointees to secretly…

27 June 2012

by Alex Curtas, ProgressNow NM

Governor's Lack of Transparency Goes Deeper Than Just Emails

Requests for Public Information are Made Difficult as Public Information is Denied to Public

ALBUQUERQUE - Though the recent "Emailgate" scandal has highlighted the Martinez…

[From the political watchdog group ProgressNow]:

ProgressNow New Mexico has uncovered documents showing that former-congresswoman and current US Senate candidate Heather Wilson has been named in a "pay-to-play" investigation being conducted by the New Mexico Attorney General's Office.

You might remember way back in 2008 when news reports questioned the use of federal grants earmarked by Wilson to the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department that ended up…

Instead of awarding the City of ABQ's Public Access TV contract to Quote...Unquote, who has held the contract for decades, the ABQ City Council will vote on Monday to irresponsibly hand over the contract to UPublic, a mouthpiece of conservative propaganda who has said that they will censor content. 

The meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 7, at 5:00pm at City Hall. There will be a Teach-in + Telethon tonight (May 3) from 5-7pm that can be seen on Ch. 27 or streamed online at…

ProgressNow New Mexico is reporting that, on Friday of last week, Governor Susana Martinez's Department of Public Safety published new, more restrictive rules for New Mexico's conceal carry reciprocity laws (i.e. the laws that determine which other states' concealed firearms permits New Mexico will recognize).

Under the previous law, New Mexico recognized reciprocity…