The Martin Heinrich for Congress campaign is stepping it up with their ads against Republican Darren White. The latest begins, “Can we trust George Bush’s favorite sheriff?”

The hard-hitting ad says White is “lying” in his recent ad about Heinrich. “The truth is,” the narrator in the Heinrich ad says, “Martin Heinrich is the only candidate who has cut taxes.”

The ad then shows a picture of Heinrich as a city councilor.

Then the ad says, “As secretary of Public Safety, White misspent thousands in drug enforcement money.”

According to an April 10, 1996, article from The Santa Fe New Mexican, “The state Department of Public Safety last year used some of New Mexico’s federal drug enforcement money to buy cars for Public Safety Secretary Darren White, his deputy secretary and two other administrators.”