Exclusive: NM SoS Says Heather Willson Voter Payments 'Very Odd'

[BradBlog]

Source: BRAD BLOG



'Very Odd': NM Sec. of State Investigates, Questions Rep. Heather Wilson/NM GOP 'Vote-Buying' Allegations
In Exclusive Interview, SoS Mary Harrera, Says She's Never Heard of Campaigns Paying People to Show up to Vote
Former Republican Governor Vindicated as Checks Made out by Wilson Campaign Scrutinized by State Attorney General, as Confirmed by Local GOP Chair...

New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera said her office is working closely and quickly with the state Attorney General’s Office to finish the investigation into the state Republican Party’s vote-buying scandal.

The agencies want the investigation completed before the state GOP’s statewide convention on Saturday, Herrera said late Tuesday in an exclusive interview with this blog.

Herrera also said she was troubled by the allegations that the campaigns --- including Congresswoman Heather Wilson’s U.S. Senate campaign --- had paid people to attend the Bernalillo County, NM GOP’s ward conventions on Feb. 17 and vote for certain delegates.

“It’s something new --- people being paid to get to conventions. I’ve never heard of it. I’ve been attending (Democratic Party) ward and state conventions since I’ve been 18 and I’ve never heard of anything like this. Now we have paying people to do it. It seems very odd,” Herrera said during the face-to-face interview in Albuquerque.

New evidence emerged in the case that offers a reason why Wilson’s campaign was suddenly forced to admit that they paid for at least five people to attend the conventions, after initially refusing to comment on the allegations of vote-buying at the Feb. 17 Bernalillo County GOP’s ward conventions: A paper trail...

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[Dr.Phool]

1. She's the Dennis Miller of Congress.

They had to pay homeless people to sit through his TV show.

[ladywnch]

2. really, I hadn't heard that. He used to be funny before he became

a RW shill.

[BradBlog]

4. Must have missed when he was EVER funny (nt)

[NMDemDist2]

3. sad to say it's happening in Dist 2 also it appears

a certain candidate is offering a book and pay for a group of rooms in Northern NM in return for caucus' at the party convention.....

[NM Independent]

5. A BIG thanks to BradBlog for bringing this out of the shadows.

This needs all the national press it can get. Unfortunately it is getting very little coverage locally.

I hope Heather burns for this one. I am very glad to hear the investigation will be completed so soon. I was expecting to have to wait for months.