Public safety will be on the agenda in the upcoming 60-day session, but Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s attempts to arm-twist lawmakers on the issue last year won’t serve her well as she enters the lame duck portion of her eight years in office.
Lujan Grisham is the second consecutive Democratic governor who likely envisioned resigning early for a much loftier position in the federal government. Bill Richardson had been tapped for Commerce secretary in the Obama administration, which would have made him the first Hispanic to hold the job. That got squelched when his political action committee was caught in a pay-to-play scandal involving state investments.
It’s no secret that Lujan Grisham was under consideration for a position in the Harris administration, had the presidential election gone the other way. Now she’s stuck here for the next two years…