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Is New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez the Next Sarah Palin?
Petty. Vindictive. Weak on policy. And yet she's being hailed as the Republican Party's great new hope.
By Andy Kroll
| Wed Apr. 16, 2014 3:00 AM PDT
Illustration: Dale Stephanos
As she likes to tell anybody who'll listen, Susana Martinez, the governor of New Mexico, didn't start out a Republican. She and her husband, Chuck, like most everyone else in Las Cruces, had always been Democrats. But she'd long dreamed of running for office, and when word got out that she had her eyes on the district attorney's seat, two local Republican activists asked her to lunch. At the meeting, the story goes, her suitors didn't talk about party affiliation or ideology. They zeroed in on issuestaxes, welfare, gun rights, the death penalty. Afterward, Martinez got into the car, turned to her husband, and said, "I'll be damned, we're Republicans."
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More here:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/governor-susana-martinez-new-mexico-2016
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,899 posts)(Almost no one is.) But she does seem to be as mean as a snake.
Warpy
(111,383 posts)which has made her a rising star in the GOP.
She's kept a low profile here in NM since her disastrous beginning. I'm terrified she'll get another term.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)But Rethugs think Liberals are threatened by her. No clue as to how she is a Conservative knowing how her party treats Latinos. Never heard her say anything about the treatment of Latinos by her party
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)babylonsister
(171,102 posts)UTUSN
(70,762 posts)madaboutharry
(40,234 posts)Just what the country needs. Not.
Quixote1818
(28,989 posts)She knows nothing about what the job entails so she does nothing to prevent any waves.
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)have to quit her job first in order to be the next SP?