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From NMPolitics.net - Mary Herrera wants people to know that she has worked hard to clean up a mess she inherited when she became secretary of state in 2007. That has caused some employees to become disgruntled, Herrera claimed in a recent interview in Las Cruces. She said that’s the primary cause of much of the scandal that has plagued her tenure in office. “I inherited a $3 million deficit,” Herrera said. “I inherited employees that weren’t working 8-5. They were coming and going.” Herrera’s predecessor was former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron, who was indicted last year on 50 counts including money laundering, fraud, soliciting or receiving kickbacks and tax evasion in the alleged theft of millions of dollars from the office. Trial in that case is pending. Vigil-Giron and her co-defendants have pleaded not guilty. Read more here:
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Here's another one for Mary to deflect: this morning’s Santa Fe New Mexican (http://roundhouseroundup.blogspot.com/2010/10/roundhouse-roundup-dem-sos-tells-pio.html) reports there are e-mails sent by Mary Herrera to her former public information officer James Flores (a registered Republican) in which she directed him to “get involved” with the Republican Party to try to discourage them running a GOP candidate for secretary of state. Flores was one of two exempt employees Herrera fired in September after he and former SOS office administrator Manny Vildasol reported what they claimed was possible criminal behavior on Herrera’s part to the FBI.
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