Republican (naturally)
Gov. Susana "Martini" Martinez of New Mexico has been talked about as possible VP candidate, a token Hispanic to soften the bigotry of any future Republican/ New Confederate/ Stupid/ Shooter's Party ticket (
if Vlad the Invader isn't available). Now it seems "Martini" might have a bit of an "officer, problem" because of
a recent incident involving Demon Rum. Be sure to check out the recordings at the link embedded below:
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) was forced to apologize on Friday after audio surfaced of her admonishing police officers who tried to disband a hotel party she was attending.
Three audio recordings obtained by several local media outlets feature staff at the El Dorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, calling police in the early hours of Dec. 13 to ask them to kick noisy people off the hotel premises after complaints from other hotel guests.
“We have guests that have been partying in their room,” Shelly Garcia at the El Dorado front desk told the Santa Fe police dispatcher. “They’ve been warned already and they are still not quieting down.”
Garcia told police that the rowdy guests had been throwing bottles off their hotel room balcony.
The hotel staff didn't know at the time that they were calling the cops on the governor, but they would soon find out.
Martinez came to the front desk after three police officers showed up at the hotel.
A slurry-sounding Martinez can be heard on the second recording repeatedly pestering Garcia to tell her who had complained -- or at least say what room they were in.
“Oh you can tell the police, but they won’t tell you -- you won’t tell me?” Martinez said. “I’ll get it from the cops.”
Martinez then gets on the phone with the police dispatcher, who also refuses to identify the people who complained.
The third, and funniest recording, has Martinez speaking to an officer on the phone, incredulous that cops had been sent to the hotel. It's unclear at that point whether she is back in her room.
“So we’re 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 about six other people who are having pizza,” Martinez said. [Ed. note: pulling the "disabled" family member and "I'm the Governor..." cards in the same sentence!]
Told by the cop that there were reports of partying guests throwing bottles off the balcony, Martinez gave this creative denial:
“I’m sorry. There’s no one on the balcony and there’s no one throwing bottles off the balcony,” she said. “And if there were, it was about six hours ago.”
Then, still seemingly on the phone, Martinez turns to Sgt. Anthony Tapia, one of the officers at the hotel.
“We are eating pizza, and drinking Cokes, and whoever was throwing bottles is not there, hasn’t been there for like six hours,” she tells the sergeant. (our emphasis)
That's the "I didn't do it, and I'll never do it again!" defense. Of course, had the audio proof not surfaced, "Martini" and her toadies would have denied anything like this occurred.
