A.G. King Rips Susana Martinez Over Veto

Gary King

NMPolitics - On April 5, Gov. Martinez vetoed Senate Bill 397, a bill that would level the playing field for all cigarette manufacturers by requiring that they all pay their fair share of the health care costs their products cause in New Mexico. The veto was in direct contradiction to the legal advice provided to her by my office, which for years has been in charge of maintaining the historic master settlement agreement with major tobacco companies. Besides clearly putting the interests of the tobacco industry ahead of the health of New Mexico citizens, the veto enables a continuation of unequal treatment for cigarette makers who did not join the master settlement agreement (MSA). The biggest benefactor of the governor’s veto is a large cigarette manufacturing plant in New York. Read full column here: News New Mexico

A.G. King Rips Susana Martinez Over Veto