Heath Analyzes Budgets

Heath Haussamen
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez has been quick to point out that the state budget grew 54 percent between fiscal years 2003 and 2009. But state appropriations to the Third Judicial District Attorney’s Office, which Martinez runs, grew 69.5 percent between FY03 and FY09 – the same time period Martinez is using to attack the “Richardson/Denish” administration for the “out-of-control” growth of 54 percent. Martinez is quick to say there’s a difference: The increase in funding to her office, her campaign manager told NMPolitics.net, “clearly coincides” with inflation, an increase in cases and the addition of another district judge in Las Cruces during that time. Read more here:

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