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Lawmaker renews push for voter ID requirement State representative says pre-filed bill meant to verify voter eligibility By Steve Terrell
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IN Monique Jacobson, who has served for almost four years as the secretary of the state Tourism Department, has been named the new CYFD secretary.
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Voter identification — requiring voters to show some kind of government issued photo ID card at the ballot box — was the biggest issue in the recent campaign for secretary of state. That debate will continue in the Legislature as a Sandia Park Republican has pre-filed a bill that would make photo identification a condition to vote. Rep. Jim Smith, who introduced a voter ID bill in 2012, said Monday that his House Bill 61 is designed to verify voters, not to disenfranchise voters — as opponents of voter ID have claimed about previous bills. In the past, voter ID bills normally get voted down along party lines in the first committee hearing. But with Republicans controlling the House for the first time in more than 60 years, there is an excellent chance that a voter ID bill will make it out of committee and pass the full House. While intense opposition from Democrats to HB 61 can be expected, the bill has the support of at least one Democratic senator. Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto of Albuquerque, a former state elections director, said he wrote HB 61 at Smith’s request. He said the bill guards against disenfranchising voters and addresses problems with mail-in ballots. While supporting the bill, IveySoto said he hasn’t decided whether he will sign on as a joint sponsor. Smith, who sponsored a similar bill in 2012, said he took to heart criticism from American Indian voters. Thus, he said, in his new bill, enrolled members of federally recognized tribes could use identification cards or letters of enrollment that do not have photos. HB 61 would allow expired driver’s licenses to be used for voter identifica-
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CYFD Secretary Yolanda Deines, above, will leave office Jan. 5.
statement. “Her strong intellect and impeccable management skills will serve the agency well, and she is a leader who is well known for producing results.” One legislator, Sen. Michael Padilla, D-Albuquerque, immediately questioned Jacobson’s expertise and ability to handle her new job. “I am shocked,” Padilla said in an interview. “I wasn’t aware that she had a background in social work, or early education or family intervention. I am going to be looking very closely at her background to see what her skill sets are.”
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Martinez picks tourism secretary to head CYFD Nomination subject to Senate confirmation; lawmakers’ reaction mixed run the state Tourism Department for almost four years, will succeed Deines. Jacobson is a native of Taos with an Ivy League pedigree. She received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Before becoming tourism secretary, she worked for PepsiCo in marketing and as what she once described as the corporation’s “director of accessible health and wellness.” “Moving forward, I feel Secretary Jacobson is the right person to lead the Children, Youth, and Families Department,” Martinez said in a
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ov. Susana Martinez made a surprise change in her Cabinet on Monday, announcing the resignation of the head of the Children, Youth and Families Department and replacing her with the secretary of tourism. Yolanda Deines, 65, an experienced social worker and inspirational figure in the governor’s life, will step down Jan. 5 as secretary of the Children, Youth and Families Department. Monique Jacobson, 36, who has
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A supervisor at the New Mexico Department of Health filed a whistleblower lawsuit Monday, accusing the department of understaffing the division that certifies health care facilities to receive Medicaid funds, then demoting her when she complained about it. Amber Espinosa-Trujillo, the former head of the Department of Health’s Health Facility and Licensing Certification Bureau, filed the suit in state District Court in Santa Fe. After Espinosa-Trujillo complained about a shortage in personnel to review hospitals and other health care sites, department leaders shifted her from a job in which she supervised 65 employees to a different division of the department where she currently oversees two workers, according to her lawyer, Trent Howell of Santa Fe. Espinosa-Trujillo’s suit alleges that beginning in 2010, her superiors at the Department of Health “began systematically disabling [the Health Facility and Licensing Certification Bureau], refusing to hire full-time employees for at least half of its 50-plus budgeted full-time employee positions, and methodically wasting its budget by instead hiring private contractors at project rates more than twice what a regular state employee would cost.”
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Tribes tread carefully in marijuana conversations Communities torn over potential societal risks and economic benefits By Felicia Fonseca and Matthew Brown The Associated Press
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation had bitter debates when it was deciding whether to allow casinos on the reservation and if alcohol should be sold in them. The arguments focused on the revenue and jobs casinos and liquor could bring to a reservation where half the workforce is unemployed and most arrests and pervasive social ills are linked to alcohol abuse. When the federal government announced this month that it would allow American Indian tribes to grow and sell marijuana, the same divisive discussions resurfaced. The tribal president’s office talked of expanding crops to include pot for medicinal but not recreational use, while a tribal lawmaker quickly declared his opposition. “Criminal activity is just going to go up more, and drug addiction is going to go up more, and everyone is going to be affected,” said Edmund Yazzie, head of the Navajo Nation Council’s Law and Order Committee. The split reaction among Navajo leaders reflects divisions on reser-
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vations around the country. While the Navajo and a number of other tribes ultimately ventured into the casino business, many say they’re inclined to avoid marijuana as a potential revenue booster amid deep sensitivity over rampant alcoholism, poverty, crime and joblessness on tribal lands. Marijuana isn’t tied to tribal culture, like tobacco commonly used in religious ceremonies, and any pot growing operation would run counter to the message that tribes have preached for decades that drugs and alcohol ruin lives, said Carl Artman, former U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs assistant secretary and member of the Oneida tribe in Wisconsin. “When you look at what tribes have to offer — from gaming to ecotourism to looking out over the Grand Canyon, just bringing people out on the reservation for art or culture — this is not one of the things they would normally want,” Artman said. “It hearkens back to something that’s archaic and stereotypical as opposed to what the modern day Indian is about.” But it has piqued the interest of some of the country’s 566 federally recognized tribes, including tribes in Washington, the Dakotas, Connecticut and Colorado, as well as the Navajo Nation, which stretches into New Mexico, Utah and Arizona.
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Francis sharply critical of Vatican bureaucracy Pope’s speech on Curia shortcomings blistering By Gaia Pianigiani The New York Times
ROME — Pope Francis excoriated the Vatican bureaucracy in his traditional Christmas address on Monday, saying that some of the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Roman Catholic Church suffer from a “spiritual Alzheimer’s.” In his annual speech, Francis
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warned against what he called a lust for power, hypocritical double lives and the lack of spiritual empathy among some men of God. He listed the 15 “ailments and temptations” that weaken their service to the Lord, inviting them to a “true selfexamination” ahead of Christmas. In strong, colorful language, Francis criticized the Curia, the administration that runs the Holy See, for a narcissistic “pathology of power” and “existential schizophrenia.”
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