Rubel Recalls Stapleton Smear of Lee Rawson

Lee Rawson

Las Cruces Sun-News - by Walt Rubel - The first time state Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton grabbed my attention was during a committee meeting in 2005 when she used a phrase I had never heard before, and can't accurately repeat here, during an emotional rant seeking more funding for education. "Money is in Santa Fe like kiddiepoop. It's flowing down the river," the Albuquerque Democrat said during a Legislative Education Study Committee meeting, though she didn't use the word poop. More appropriately, she used the word that rhymes with fit.While I admired her passion, the whole thing was so over the top it was hard not to view it as anything but comical. There was nothing funny at all in 2008 when a similarly overheated Stapleton took to the House floor to accuse then-Senate Minority Whip Lee Rawson of racism. Read full column here: News New Mexico

Rubel Recalls Stapleton Smear of Lee Rawson