>>12794828 (LB)
This is how they are doing this. They just had a court case decided by their own state Supreme Court that it is unconstitutional to change a State amendment without advertising to the people and allowing them to vote on it..
Didn't the state do the same thing with elections? They changed the voting laws without letting the people vote on it.
They've set a precedent with this case.
New Mexico Governor Quietly Gave Large Raises to Her Staff While Cutting Teacher and State Employee Raise
In a classic “do as I say, not as I do” moment, New Mexico’s Democratic Governor asked thousands of employees to take the fiscal hit – even as she was quietly handing out $7,400 to $18,000 pay increases to her personal staff.
Last spring, a little over a month after issuing her first emergency order regarding COVID-19, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced at a weekly press conference the state would need to make reductions in spending because of the economic impact of the coronavirus and the faltering oil prices on state revenue.
She also issued a hiring freeze for state government and, according to a report in the Albuquerque Journal, “suggested the hiring freeze would be one of several cost-cutting moves to be implemented, though she did not provide additional details.”
Besides neglecting to provide details about the pending cuts, the governor failed to mention she was giving several of her highly paid staff generous (five-figure) pay raises for the second time in under eighteen months in office.
The raises were given to her Roundhouse staff even as she and legislators were planning to take back the 4% raise promised teachers and state employees just a few weeks earlier.
In a classic ‘do as I say, not as I do’ moment, the Democratic Governor asked thousands of employees to take the fiscal hit – while she handed out $7,400 to $18,000 pay increases to her personal staff.
Several thousand front-line state, school, and hospital employees paid from state and federal funds make under $30,000/year.
https://thecandlepublishing.com/new-mexico-governor-quietly-gave-large-raises-to-her-staff-while-cutting-teacher-and-state-employee-raise/