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Republican Gov.-elect Susana Martinez spoke with the Las Cruces Sun-News in one of the first in-depth interviews the Dona Ana County prosecutor has given since winning the election Tuesday of last week.
Closing the state’s budget gap is her first priority, Martinez told the paper. In that spirit, she has already spoken with Republican and Democratic state lawmakers, including Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, who is named in particular in the Sun-News interview.
Martinez said both political parties must reach across the aisle to make the tough decisions that will be required to solve the state’s budget woes.
Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
We’ll have to start crossing party lines to start solving problems. And we’ve lost the ability to do that in the past. And that’s why I think some of these issues stay unresolved – kicking that can down the road and not making these tough decisions about where do we cut. I really do think it’s insufficient to just change the party in power. We have to start reaching across the aisle and say, ‘How do we fix this for all our sakes? And not just for your sake to get re-elected or my sake because I’m a different party than you are.’
