KRQE

Gov. Bill Richardson promised to cut the positions of 59 political appointees across state government last year. But so far Richardson has repeatedly refused to turn over to the media a list of those who lost their jobs.
But Colleen Heild of the Albuquerque Journal may have identified one of the “exempt” employees – political appointees [...]

Congressman Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., was on New Mexico news station KRQE about health care reform this morning, saying he believes the bill has been improved after the August recess. “One of the biggest improvements to the bill, and what we’ve actually helped do, is we’ve decreased the cost,” Lujan said.