Susana blasts Bregman: “They’ll stoop to anything”; Bregman threatens to release entire tape

Prominent New Mexico Democrat Sam Bregman

From Capitol Report New Mexico - An angry Gov. Susana Martinez lit into Albuquerque attorney and prominent New Mexico Democrat Sam Bregman, one day after Bregman released a 25-second audio clip of a secretly recorded phone conversation with Martinez chief of staff Keith Gardner. “Sam Bregman released 25 seconds of an hour and 10 minute private conversation,” Martinez told reporters on Wednesday (Sept. 5), “that involved the sexual assault of two girls” and a subsequent investigation of those charges. “It was done strictly for political reasons.” On Tuesday, Bregman released a recording of Gardner speaking to a friend, Brian Powell of Roswell, who apparently recorded the conversation without Gardner’s knowledge. In the excerpt Bregman played a news conference in Albuquerque, a voice identified as Gardner’s says, ”That’s why I never email on my state email … anything that can come back and bite … I never use my email because it’s all done on different stuff … I don’t want to go to court [or] jail.” At the news conference, Bregman said ”this administration is drunk with power, and they want to run a secret government.” But Gov. Martinez said the quotes do not deal with use of state e-mails or computers: “What was said in reference to the computers had to do with the investigation of those [assault] cases, had nothing to do with our state computers.” Read more

Susana blasts Bregman: “They’ll stoop to anything”; Bregman threatens to release entire tape