If you really are only as old as you feel, then audio released today by Santa Fe police regarding a little hotel pizza party that got out of hand indicates that New Mexico governor Susana Martinez is… maybe 17 years old.
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“Absolutely, I will be addressing it with my staff, because I think it’s important that they respect the folks that were in the hotel”, the governor said.
Martinez tells the dispatcher who she is, and then asks who complained.
The front desk attendant told police she’d received several complaints from hotel guests about a fourth-floor room that had been “partying” and throwing bottles off the balcony.
The dispatcher asked Martinez if he could transfer her to his supervisor. There was apparently a party in a hotel room earlier in the night that was disruptive.
“The Santa Fe officers did not attempt to contact the hotel guest who made the complaint, nor did they go up to the governor’s fourth-floor room to investigate further”.
Dispatcher: Because we were called out there.
She insists on knowing who made the complaint and asks if it was another guest in the hotel.
In a statement Friday night, Martinez said: ‘I want to apologize for the conduct of my staff the night of our holiday party.
This happened at 1:31 a.m. local time on Sunday at Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, where the governor held a staff party. The individuals noted the extreme noise along with allegations that people at the party were throwing glass bottles off of the hotel balcony. The problem as far as Martinez saw it was that her party was merely “eating pizza”, a story she repeats with increasingly fanciful diction across the tapes.
Martinez: Okay. So we’re just sitting in there, I’m the governor of the state of New Mexico, and we’re in there with my sister who’s disabled along with six other people who are having pizza. “Yes, tell me what the complaint is”.
When the dispatcher refuses to give the Governor the information she turns her attention to the hotel staff attendant asking, “Tell me”. The front desk put a woman on the phone who said she was the governor and demanded to know why the cops were called and by whom.
“We can listen as an obviously drunk Susana Martinez spends six minutes on berating public safety workers trying to keep the peace”, charged Pat Davis, a spokesman for the organization, which calls itself “New Mexico’s largest progressive advocacy organization”. When told that information couldn’t be released she said, “Why can you not?”
The Governor and her family left and went home shortly thereafter. “And I wanna know who they are”. I was wrong to speak with them like that, and I apologize, ‘ Martinez added.
The nation’s only Latina governor, Martinez was recently elected chair of the Republican Governors Association. Martinez also serves as the legal guardian for her older sister, who is developmentally disabled.
Do police believe the governor was wasted? He also said officers found no evidence of bottles being thrown from the room’s balcony outside the hotel. It is unclear if the police responding to the scene knew that the interim police chief was on site during the altercation.
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The governor’s spokesman had asserted that Martinez “took a call” from police in response to the noise complaints.
