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Mayor reopens town in defiance of state lockdown order, braces for confrontation

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Posted by Fred 2020-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 I wonder, is Los Alamos closed?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-29 04:55|| 2020-04-29 04:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Good luck, Mayor Hicks. I hope more mayors/people follow your lead.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-29 06:56|| 2020-04-29 06:56|| Front Page Top

#3 The state police better pass on this one otherwise they'll find out what it was like at the Alamo real quick. Outside of Santa Fe and Albuquerque her writ has serious limitations if the locals don't cooperate.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-29 07:38|| 2020-04-29 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Good. Glad to see this. Also, this is "Blue on Blue". Democrat mayor and governor.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-04-29 09:29|| 2020-04-29 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 One person probably not wearing one of those shirts, is the now former City Manager Linda Jaramillo. She says she was fired Tuesday morning by Mayor Martin Hicks because she refused to reopen the city’s golf course after Grants received a notice of violation from the state police the day earlier.

Hicks had ordered all of the employees to keep the golf course open.

“I still stand by my actions in defending the city’s golf course staff and their desire not to violate the governor’s health order,” she said in a telephone interview. “Our staff was not comfortable in breaking the law and opening the golf course.”

Tuesday evening, Attorney General Hector Balderas issued a cease and desist order to Hicks. He said in the order that the mayor is violating state law by opening the golf course and encouraging businesses to violate the governor's order. Balderas mentions Jaramillo's firing.

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-29 10:45|| 2020-04-29 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Open it up. Open most of the country up. This has been largely bullshit from the beginning. Cities and states should have been handled on a case-by-case basis instead of CRATERING the world's largest economy.

Posted by Crusader 2020-04-29 14:09|| 2020-04-29 14:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Read that all again.
Governor (executive) order = state law (according to Attorney General).

This article and Frank G's reference are exactly why people are getting jumpy.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-29 16:21|| 2020-04-29 16:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Problem is "how are you going to enforce it". Just a variation on the gun grabbers in Virginia. Consent of the governed is something sometimes you don't want to test. You may find yourself like Mr. Wiley Coyote standing on air over the canyon.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-29 21:54|| 2020-04-29 21:54|| Front Page Top

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