For eight years, Diane Denish stood by while her political padron and boss, Bill Richardson, appointed donors and liberal politicos to so-called ‘exempted’, politically appointed state jobs. For eight years, Diane Denish stood by while these ‘exempted’ employees only worked half days or didn’t even show up, yet, still received a taxpayer funded pay check. Some of those taxpayer funded pay checks are up in the range of anywhere from $60,000 to $100,000 a year.
Handing out ‘exempted’, politically appointed jobs to supporters is nothing new in the eight years of the Richardson/Denish machine. Another part of this same machine is their support of their machine’s soldiers who hold county offices. No wonder then, in a slap to the face of the tradition set forth by George Washington, that Diane Denish has come out in favor of a constitutional amendment in this year’s fall election that would allow county officials to serve THREE terms instead of two.
Our nation’s tradition of term limits for certain political offices is inherit in our belief in limited government and supporting new blood and new ideas.
Yet, Diane Denish attacks this great tradition when she was quoted in a June 18th article from the Farmington Daily Times by Steve Lynn. Diane Denish stated:
“I’m going to be voting for constitutional Amendment 2 so you guys can continue to do your great jobs. The experience and continuity is really worth something.”
So, after eight years as a member of the Richardson – Denish machine that pushed cronyism and keeping long time machine members in power it appears that Diane Denish wants to continue this tradition instead of the one that our Founding Fathers laid forth of keeping a balance and limited how much power one citizen has for a certain period of time.
Diane Denish is proudly continuing the eight year tradition of cronyism and politics as usual that we have seen under Richardson – Denish.
EIGHT TOO LATE DIANE!
