Herrera Sued Under Whistleblower Act

Mary Herrera

From the New Mexico Independent - Two former political employees of Secretary of State Mary Herrera who were fired this week will sue their former boss for retaliation under the state’s whistle-blower act, their attorney said Wednesday. Española attorney Rudy Martin said he notified the state Tuesday of his intention to sue Herrera and her agency on behalf of his clients, James Flores and Manny Vildasol. “I think what is going to happen is that we will be filing a lawsuit before the election using the state’s whistle-blower act,” Rudy Martin told The Independent in a telephone interview. Flores and Vildasol, Herrera’s communications director and office manager, were notified Tuesday by separate certified letters (click here and here to see the correspondence) that they had been fired. Both men had been on paid administrative leave while the state investigated them. But the two men knew they had been fired before they got the letters—because they had read read about it on a local political blog that already had the news, Martin said. Read more here:

Herrera Sued Under Whistleblower Act