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Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration says family members of a state police officer on the governor’s security detail paid for part of a 2011 alligator hunting trip that her husband, Chuck Franco, shown in 2010, took in Louisiana.
Ex-governor left legacy of service
One official storms out, another hospitalized after questioning about behavioral health report
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Martinez’s office gives hunting trip details
By Steve Terrell The New Mexican
First gentleman’s trip unrelated to racetrack deal, officials maintain By Barry Massey
The Associated Press
The family of a state police officer on Gov. Susana Martinez’s security detail helped arrange and pay for part of an alligator hunting trip taken in Louisiana by the governor’s husband, according to administration officials. The trip in 2011 has come under scrutiny because the governor’s critics have questioned whether it was financed by the Louisiana owners of a horse-racing track that received a new lease at the state fairgrounds in Albuquerque. The Governor’s Office has insisted that no costs were paid for by anyone connected to the racetrack and released details of the trip this week to The Associated Press to support its explanation. “The governor ordered the release of this information to put to rest the ridiculous and utterly baseless assertions by left-wing political groups that the First Gentleman’s personal trip was at all related to” the fairgrounds
ABOVE: David Cargo, right, speaks with Alva Simpson of Abiquiú, who ran for governor in 1954. Cargo served for four years as a legislator, followed by two terms as governor, which allowed him to witness what he said was a drastic change in state politics.
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Church to grant pair of popes sainthood Francis OKs 2nd miracle for John Paul II, bends the rules for John XXIII By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Friday cleared two of the 20th century’s most influential popes to become saints, approving a miracle needed to canonize Pope John Paul II and waiving Vatican rules to honor Pope John XXIII. It was a remarkable show of papal authority and confirmed Francis’ willingness to bend church tradition when it comes to things he cares deeply about. Both popes are also closely identified with the Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that brought the Catholic Church into modern times, an indication that Francis clearly wants to make a statement about the council’s role in shaping the church today. Francis approved a decree that a Costa Rican woman’s inexplicable cure from a deadly brain aneurism
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Audit inquiry results in upset
LEFT: Cargo and Gov. Susana Martinez chat at the state Capitol on March 1, 2011.
It would be fair to describe the latest meeting of the interim legislative Health and Human Services Committee as pretty intense, lawmakers who attended the session said. At the Wednesday night meeting in Albuquerque, Human Services Department Secretary Sidonie Squier, Sidonie after three hours Squier of answering questions, reportedly stormed out angrily. Meanwhile, state Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, who had been grilling Squier, literally ruptured blood vessels in his brain and ended up in the hospital. The topic of the confrontation was the department’s handling of an audit of 15 state contracts with behavioral health providers. Squier has said an audit showed evidence of mismanagement and possibly fraud on the the part of all the contractors. Meanwhile, eight of the 15 companies have filed a federal lawsuit seeking an injunction against Squier to force the state to continue paying the providers and to stop publicizing allegations of wrongdoing “until and unless each plaintiff is furnished a meaningful name-clearing hearing, as required by the due process clause of the Constitution.” The department in late June announced that the five-month-long audit showed $36 million in overpayments to the 15 providers during a three-year period. The audit found that “errors and over payments were so widespread that the business and billing practices of every provider [in
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Lonesome Dave remembered as renegade Republican who championed literacy, civil rights By Steve Terrell
The New Mexican
L
onesome Dave is gone. David F. Cargo, who was governor of New Mexico from January 1967 through 1970, died at 5:15 a.m Friday, said Albuquerque City Councilor Janice Arnold-Jones, a friend of Cargo’s. He was 84. For several months, Cargo had been living in an Albuquerque nursing facility following a stroke. He suddenly fell ill following a day of July Fourth activities and died after being taken to an Albuquerque hospital, his son Patrick Cargo of Dallas told The Associated Press. First elected at the age of 37, Cargo was the youngest person to serve as New Mexico governor and was known as a moderate or sometimes even progressive Republican. He often was at odds with members of his own party, which helped earn him his “Lonesome” nickname, of which he was proud. During his first bid for governor in 1966, he traveled alone in a 1959 Chevrolet to rural areas and small towns.
A sheepherder on horseback, according to Cargo, called him “Lonesome Dave” during a chance encounter when the candidate got out of his car on a muddy road to greet the man. A newspaperman with Cargo used the exchange in a story, and the nickname stuck. “He was so underestimated, so underappreciated and so forward-thinking,” said Arnold-Jones, a former legislator who knew Cargo for more than 45 years. Arnold-Jones frequently visited him in the nursing home. “He was so frustrated,” she said. “His brain was going 90 miles a minute, but his body would not cooperate.” Other tributes poured in Friday following the news of Cargo’s death. “I’m saddened to hear that my friend, Dave Cargo, died today,” Gov. Susana Martinez said in a statement. “New Mexico lost a great friend, a leader, and a tireless advocate for all New Mexicans. Gov. Cargo and I shared a passion for literacy, and he dedicated much of his life to it by raising thousands of dollars to help build and maintain twelve libraries throughout rural New Mexico, in places like Mora, Anton Chico, Villanueva and Corona. Gov. Cargo will be missed, but his legacy will live on.” State Republican Party Chairman John Billingsly said, “All who had the pleasure of working with or knowing Gov. Cargo know that his legacy of service will live on
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He appreciated the importance of education and sought to “ provide access to knowledge for everyone who sought to make a better life for themselves.” U.S. Rep Ben Ray Luján, on former Gov. David Cargo
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Axle Contemporary The Artist Is In, revolving group show, daylong artists’ talks include Charles Greeley, Bunny Tobias and Woody Vasulka, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Look for the mobile gallery’s van on Paseo de Peralta by SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 670-7612 or 670-5854. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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