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NMPolitics.net - Gov. Susana Martinez supports a proposed constitutional amendment that would let voters decide whether state lawmakers should continue receiving retirement benefits, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting. From the article: “Gov. Susana Martinez supports a constitutional amendment – which would have to be approved by voters – to kill the retirement program. “‘Given the generosity of these legislative pensions, and the significant expansion of these benefits throughout the years, I believe that voters should have the chance to weigh in on this important issue and evaluate the appropriateness of these pension benefits,’ Martinez said last week.
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Regardless of what the idiots on the state supreme court have decided, the state constitution already prohibits the legislators from receiving anything more than per diem. Go read it yourself.
Sec. 10. [Compensation of members.]
Each member of the legislature shall receive:
A. as per diem expense the sum of not more than seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for each day's attendance during each session, as provided by law and twenty-five cents ($.25) for each mile traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government by the usual traveled route, once eeach session as defined by Article 4, Section 5 of this constitution;
B. per them expense and mileage at the same rates as provided in subsection A of this section for service at meetings required by legislative committees established by the legislature to meet in the interim between sessions; and
C. no other compensation, perquisite or allowance. (Adopted by the people November 2,1982.)
What these elected servants have done is both immoral and unethical. But what more can one expect when the people continue to relect questionable critters to office?
Heck, our last governor wasn't even constitutionally eligible to the office of governor according to the state constitution.
See:
Sec. 3. [Qualifications of executive officers.]
No person shall be eligible to any office specified in Section One, hereof, unless he be a citizen of the United States, at least thirty years of age, nor unless he shall have resided continuously in New Mexico for five years next preceding his election; nor to the office of attorney general, unless he be a licensed attorney of the supreme court of New Mexico in good standing; nor to the office of superintendent of public instruction unless he be a trained and experienced educator.
The governor could not simply be a "resident" of NM he/she must havve contiuously "resided" in NM for 5 yrs next prior, i.e. for 5 yrs immediately before the election, the person must have been physically present.
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