During her prime-time speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention, the biggest stage of her 18-year political career, the I’ll be damned punch line brought the crowd to its feet, getting more cheers than anything said by the party’s presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. It’s a tidy little anecdote, and Martinez has put it to good use. Afterward, Martinez got into the car, turned to her husband, and said, “I’ll be damned, we’re Republicans.” They zeroed in on issues-taxes, welfare, gun rights, the death penalty. At the meeting, the story goes, her suitors didn’t talk about party affiliation or ideology. But she’d long dreamed of running for office, and when word got out that she had her eyes on the district attorney’s seat, two local Republican activists asked her to lunch. She and her husband, Chuck, like most everyone else in Las Cruces, had always been Democrats.
Martinez’s “fundraising activities going back to her first run for governor.” According to the paper, “One prominent New Mexico Republican, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed being interviewed in recent months by federal agents about funds from Martinez’s campaign, as well as money from her 2011 inauguration committee, going to the governor’s political consultant, Jay McCleskey.”Īs she likes to tell anybody who’ll listen, Susana Martinez, the governor of New Mexico, didn’t start out a Republican.
Update, : The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that that FBI has been probing Gov.
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