Heath Haussmen is leaving his gig at the Las Cruces Sun News to strike out on his own. No worries, Haussamen gets to take his blog, http://haussamen.blogspot.com/ with him. In case you haven't read Haussamen's work before, below is an example of why he could become New Mexico's first blogger to make to the big leagues of blogdom.
Link: Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics.
The result of both incidents: two public messes that further discredit our elected officials.I’m not accusing Garza or Schoonover of any impropriety. But we expect our treasurer to have the highest integrity when it comes to spending money. And we expect our judges to have the most impeccable ethics, period.Some of our public officials aren’t trying very hard to avoid the appearance of impropriety. Instead, it appears, they’re flirting with it.Schoonover was handing the pencils out to kids at the end of educational presentations. I don’t believe he intended to commit a felony (and I’m not saying that he did). Garza says he asked the parties involved in court cases in which Arrieta was involved whether they were alright with him hearing the matters, though the prosecutor in last week’s domestic violence case says that isn’t true.Regardless of their motives, it seems that neither thought about public perception when taking the actions in question. At least Garza immediately recused himself from the domestic violence case when questions were raised Thursday.
