By Rob Nikolewski | New Mexico Watchdog

SANTA FE — There is plenty of heated debate at the Roundhouse as we head into the last 11 days of the 30-day legislative session.
But one odd source of irritation for one state senator concerned … gift bags that legislators received last week in connection with American Indian Day [...]

By Rob Nikolewski | New Mexico Watchdog

SANTA FE — Public employees — including teachers — who serve in the Roundhouse can still receive the salaries from their jobs away from the legislature as well as their legislative per diem of $153 after a reform bill introduced by three Republican state reps was tabled in committee [...]

By Rob Nikolewski | New Mexico Watchdog

SANTA FE — A bill that would stiffen penalties for public officials convicted of corruption charges — include potentially forfeiting their state pensions as well as banning them from lobbying or entering into contracts with the state — cruised through the House Judiciary Committee on Monday (Jan. 30) and is [...]

By Rob Nikolewski | New Mexico Watchdog

SANTA FE — The security video of Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton’s infamous rant at Rep. Nora Espinoza was released Monday (Jan. 30).
Here it is. The security camera at the Roundhouse has no audio component so you can’t hear the exchange in which Stapleton said at least twice that Espinoza was “carrying [...]

By Rob Nikolewski | New Mexico Watchdog

SANTA FE – Occupy protesters came under fire at the Roundhouse on Thursday (Jan. 26) after a handful of them burst into a dinner for state legislators at the Eldorado Hotel on Wednesday night, shouting political slogans, trying to rope off the diners with crime scene tape and throwing protest material [...]