After standing by quietly for eight years as the Richardson - Denish machine slowly turned New Mexico into a ’California-like social experimentation petree dish’ Diane Denish is attempting to re-package her image as being ‘tough on crime’. Denish has even gone so far as to attack her opponent, fourteen year District Attorney Susana Martinez, as being ’soft on crime’.
But, the facts speak for themselves and no other issue exposes Denish’s hypocrisy more than her support of repealing the death penalty in New Mexico last year.
The death penalty is a proven way to prevent violent crime. A growing body of research suggests that ending the death penalty would result in more murder victims. Studies released over the past several years by economists from Emory University, the University of Colorado, Clemson University, State University of New York, Western Illinois University, University of Houston and the University of Chicago, among others, found that for each murderer executed, five to 18 murders are prevented (http://www.cjlf.org/).
Yet, Lt. Governor Denish decided to side with criminal defense attorneys and the radical left in calling for Governor Richardson to sign the bill that repealed the death penalty in New Mexico in 2009 (http://newmexicoindependent.com/22427/denish-urges-richardson-to-sign-death-penalty-repeal). In fact, Lt. Governor Denish stated the following:
“Today I urged the Governor to sign legislation ending the death penalty in New Mexico.”
Eight years of quietly helping her political padron Richardson force radical social policies on New Mexico. Sad time for New Mexico and its law abiding citizens. Now, Diane Denish wants to ‘make over’ the last eight years and try to re-package herself as being ‘tough on crime’.
Sorry Diane but…EIGHT YEARS TOO LATE.
