New Mexico Dem governor spent taxpayer cash on groceries, booze: reports
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New Mexico’s Democrat governor is on the defensive after a report this week detailed her office’s spending from a taxpayer-supported expense fund.
The booze spending included a purchase in September of more than $200 for five bottles of tequila, two bottles of vodka, two bottles of Merlot and single bottles of whiskey and gin, the report said. "I didn’t realize the governor was so underpaid that she has to use discretionary money for things that she should be paying for herself." "It’s not what tax dollars ought to be spent for." "I don’t want New Mexicans to feel like I don’t take seriously their hardship." In the same report, the newspaper disclosed that Grisham was hosting in-person staff meetings at the governor’s mansion at the same time that she was urging the public against mixing households in order to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. About half the $13,500 went toward food for the governor’s Cabinet members and staffers during those meetings, Grisham spokesman Tripp Stelnicki told The Associated Press.More Related News