Far-left Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham continues toying with the idea of having a special session for “crime” and “public safety.”
Per a report from the Santa Fe New Mexican, the governor’s agenda for a potential special session would include sending “criminal defendants who are found incompetent to stand trial to a mental health or behavioral health treatment program,” a bill to ‘offer mental or behavioral health programs to people with “a significant mental health issue and a chemical dependency’ when family members are unable to have them involuntarily held in an inpatient facility,” measures to restrict panhandling, and increasing penalties for felons in possession of firearms.
Recently, the governor sat down with PBS New Mexico’s “New Mexico In Focus” to talk about the potential of a special session.
She told the program, “It’s a decision I can make. I have the authority to do that as governor [of] the state of New Mexico, so why not just decide? You know, part of it is I want to be successful for the public.”
She added, “We have a lot of public safety issues that still require, in my view, immediate and dramatic attention. And what I want is these strategies to get through a very narrow, very tight, special session.”
In the New Mexican’s report, the governor claimed she was leaning “80/20” in favor of calling a special session. Previously, the governor called a special session in 2021 to ram through a bill to legalize recreational marijuana sales in the state.
She has not, in fact, called special sessions on the time-sensitive topics of reforms to her Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) or border security, both crises plaguing the state.
Can you please not put MLG and “flirt” in the same sentence? It sends chills up and down my spine…
I would rather. “MLG considers further waste of tax payer dollars with a special session of failing politicos.”
Whoa! MLG has an ego attitude 🙄 🤢🤮
Translation= I would do it but I have no support from the legislature and would just piss them off.
80/20= 80 against/ 20 for
The Republicans have pushed several bills in the past several legislative sessions but these were thwarted by MLG and her minions in the House and Senate. Any Dem bills would be window dressing only and not be any serious attempt to deal with the problem; after all, the 90% plus of Democrat defense attorneys need a recurring source of income from defending the criminals.
I think they mean New Mexico PBS in this. PBS New Mexico is down south somewhere.
SHE’S A LOSER AND A BABY KILLER LIKE ALL DEMOCRATS HER SHIT STINKS SHE IS A WANNA BE HITLER DID HER PARENTS HAVE ANY KIDS THAT LIVED
Indeed, she’s made us number one in abortion tourism, but still last in everything else.
It’s all about guns. She is pissed she has not made us all felons.
Sounds like she secretly wants to squeeze in Romero/Heinrich gun control agendas. Anything to undermine the Constitutional rights of New Mexicans is all she really cares about.
Agree with Paul and David -it’s all about civilian disarmament. Everything else is just smoke.
Putting forth a measure to restrict panhandling would be so easy if she would shut down the porous border with Mexico. Here in Carlsbad the illegal panhandlers as well as the druggies have increased in the last three years. I blame the tyrant mlg for that.