Far-left Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has recently been airing bizarre attack ads against her Republican opponent, Mark Ronchetti, claiming he supports “defunding the police.” The problem is the GOP nominee, who has multiple endorsements from law enforcers, does not support the position. On the contrary, Lujan Grisham actually has supported police defunding radicals.
As we previously reported:
But if Lujan Grisham was focused on eliminating crime, she would not have been a staunch supporter of many anti-police bills proposed last legislative session, including H.B. 4, which put targets on peace officers’ backs by stripping them of qualified immunity and opening police departments and localities up to frivolous lawsuits — bankrupting them.
H.B. 4’s sponsors, Speaker Brian Egolf (D-Santa Fe) and state Rep. Georgene Louis (D-Bernalillo), just so happen to be “civil rights” attorneys who would directly profit off of their legislative proposals. Lujan Grisham signed the anti-police, anti-public safety bill anyway.
Lujan Grisham’s allies in the Legislature, such as state Sen. Linda Lopez (D-Bernalillo), sponsored the most extreme anti-police bills in the nation, including S.B. 227, which would have implemented the “strongest” anti-police “use of force” standard in the nation.
Now, Lujan Grisham, amid record-breaking homicide rates in Albuquerque and some New Mexico streets looking like warzones, is trying to save face despite her support for Black Lives Matter protesters who want to defund the police.
In her ad, a narrator reads, “Keeping New Mexicans safe is part of the governor’s job. But Mark Ronchetti will slash budgets for police and law enforcement agencies in every corner of New Mexico.”
On the screen, the words, “Mark Ronchetti is promising to defund the police” appear. The ad cherry-picks a short clip of Ronchetti during a KOAT 7 debate saying, “They don’t want more money. They don’t want more guns.”
But KOB 4’s fact-check mercilessly discredited the embattled governor’s false claims. The news station wrote, “The snippet is wildly out of context.”
According to the fact-check:
[Ronchetti said], “We have to back the blue. We have to tell them we will support them no matter what they need from us. We have some of the best law enforcement in the country here. And when you ask them, ‘What do you need? What would help you?’ the answer is simple: They don’t want more money. They don’t want more guns. They want to know that the governor of the State of New Mexico and their leaders backs them up.”
Whether police agencies truly do not want more money or guns might be debatable, but Ronchetti isn’t threatening to cut funding in full or in part. In fact, the crime plan posted on his campaign website says he wants to “fund and support police.”
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As proof, the governor’s campaign points to a July 15 tweet from Ronchetti. He criticizes the $8.5 billion state budget, but makes no specific mention of state police pay raises.
A press release from the governor says the raises will cost $9 million this fiscal year – which is one-tenth of 1% of the total budget.
The latest lies from Lujan Grisham come after she also claimed Ronchetti wants to ban all abortions in the state, despite him taking the stance that New Mexico should “permit” abortions up to 15 weeks.
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Like all domocommies she certainly can’t call on her record for voter approval since this train wreck called NM has become a dismal place under the current communist “leadership “. A lot of the blame is to be shared by some of the outrageous so called legislators currently trying to out Soviet each other. Like all commie “progressives “ all they can rely on are lies and name calling to mask their abysmal failures.
All you have are lies MLG your track record speaks for itself and it isn’t good.
MLG is just projecting her own anti-police beliefs into Ronchetti.
WEll my point of view……….. it won’t matter, in the words of ole Joe Stalin, “it’s not who votes that matters, it’s who counts the VOTES that matter!”
This doesn’t surprise me at all. The traitors know they are losing big time and are like cornered rats lashing out with even more lies and destruction.
This will only intensify the closer we get to election day, so buckle up, do not comply with the mask, jabs, and lockdown mandates, which by the way are NOT laws but only recommenations. Pray for our country and this state.
Surely someday New Mexicans will get sick and tired of being in the bottom 3-5 states in all the wrong categories. It’s time to give someone else a chance to strengthen our state like our neighboring states.
For MLG to say Ronchetti doesn’t support the police is like the pot calling the kettle black.
https://www.koat.com/article/fact-check-gov-michelle-lujan-grisham-ad-claims-mark-ronchetti-wants-to-defund-police/40801895
There is no worse choice for governor than to continue enabling this lying evil moron to continue to destroy our lives.