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Griego’s past traffic problems under scrutiny
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Griego’s campaign manager says candidate would ‘rather talk about the issues that are important to the voters’ than past DWI and arrest warrants for failing to deal with traffic citations.
Democratic 1st Congressional District candidate Eric Griego has a driving history that includes a drunken driving conviction and a number of arrest warrants being issued because he failed to appear in court to deal with speeding and other traffic citations.
The Albuquerque Journal scrutinized the situation on Wednesday in an article:
“At least 11 arrest warrants were issued for Griego by Metropolitan Court judges between 2000 and 2007, records show. The warrants were for failing to appear at scheduled court hearings or missing court-ordered driver school programs for traffic citations, such as speeding.
“Three of the arrest warrants were issued while Griego was an Albuquerque city councilor, between 2001 and 2005. The most recent warrant came in 2007, one year before Griego, now 46, was elected to the state Senate.
“Griego paid $100 in court fees each time a warrant was issued, according to court records. The fees cleared the bench warrants before they resulted in an arrest.”
As for the DWI, Griego disclosed it and other traffic issues in a 2005 Albuquerque Journal questionnaire while he was a candidate for mayor:
“In 1997, I received a DUI in Dallas. I deeply regret this mistake. I am an advocate for tougher DUI laws. Also, due to family issues, including my mother’s death, I missed traffic school for speeding tickets.”
The Daily Caller featured the situation today:
“A Griego campaign mailer attacks the ‘predatory lending.’ of Wall Street bankers. ‘No one should be above the law,’ it says.
“But court records show that the state legislator has a history of failing to appear in court and failing to report to traffic school following his traffic violations.”
Griego’s campaign manager, Ed Yoon, said this to NMPolitics.net about the situation:
“Thousands of New Mexicans are looking for jobs and worried about who’s going to fight to protect their Social Security and Medicare, and our opponents’ biggest concern is 10-year-old traffic tickets. This is what’s wrong with Washington, and why New Mexicans are rallying behind Eric Griego, because he is the one Democrat in this race who would rather talk about the issues that are important to the voters.”
Since I hadn’t seen Griego’s opponents bring up the traffic problems, I asked Yoon what they had done. He said Michelle Lujan Grisham had “tested this message in her latest poll.”
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How about it Mr. Griego? Got a comment for this comment board? Specifically, how do you feel about listing all candidates’ past civil and criminal histories?
Griego wants to live by his own set of rules
ALEC
Griego’s Public Position
Eric Griego is an outspoken opponent of corporate donations and ALEC.
Griego’s Private Position.
Altria, GlaxoSmithKline, and Union Pacific are all major players in ALEC and donated to Griego.
Clean Election
Griego’s Expectations for Other Politicians
Eric Griego made cleaning up elections a center piece of this campaign. Senate Memorial 3 opposed Citizens United and called on Congress to send a Constitutional Amendment to the states to overturn the
Eric’s Expectations for Himself
Griego is benefiting from a Super PAC that is launching a negative attack against his opponent. The Progressive Kick has spent at least $20,275 in support of Griego.
Fighting for Working Families
New Mexico Voices for Children
Griego was the Executive Director who earned almost a six figure salary. During his time there, he fought to increase resources dedicated to poor children.
The Severance Package
He took a $24,000 severance package that was not part of his contract. The poverty level for a family of four is $23,050. He did not need to work for the money meant for poor children.
There is also a campaign component associated with the $24,000 windfall. Was the payout a campaign contribution? The FEC took a look at that question. Listen to the FEC.
Following the Rules
The Bankers
Eric Griego produced commercial where he said,” I won’t stop until Wall Street bankers who broke the law go to jail.”
Griego
He has had 11 warrants because he believes the rules we must live by do not apply to him.
More at the link
http://griegovskeller.blogspot.com/2012/05/blog-post.html
Oh, I’m sure this is just a nasty distraction dreamed up by his evil Repub opponents and those greedy Wall Street bankers he will immediately throw in jail when he is elected, we need Griego to win the primary!
Speaking of political candidates and crime is there any news in regard to A J Salazar’s criminal allegations against former Secretary of State Mary Herrera and her goons? How about the, what is it, five/six year long criminal trial against former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron? My heart goes out to the whistleblowers, especially the one’s who brought forth information about individuals who run the elections.
I just researched candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham’s history. I hope all voters do as well.
Now onto the other candidates….
Well, he hasn’t missed a court date since 2007, so that’s an improvement. Has he had any more tickets in the last five years?
Wouldn’t it be nice if all candidates for Office had their entire criminal and civil court histories spelled out in the media?
How bout it Heath?
Or maybe the next guest commentary will headline: Coming soon to a wordpress blog near you! There’s gold in dem dar hills!