it was definitely worth spending nearly $15,000 and taxpayer funds to have that guy and his company conduct an audit of the election results in the county and trump carried over by 25 points. well, this week we learned from daily news, alam accord oh that the state auditor of new mexico has opened a new investigation into how the county awarded that contract , quote, it opened a new examination over the agreement in a terrell county to audit the results of the 2020 election asserting that the contract could violate state proof hearing loss. joining us now is new mexico state auditor, brian cologne looking into the contract in otero county. mr. cologne, thank you for joining us tonight. great to be with you, rachel. thank you for having me. did i get any of that wrong or is that any part of this that s important to the story that i left out? no, i think you gotta just exactly right.
from a close contextual reading of the 1970s sci-fi comedy classic, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. that had the secret to stealing the election. the otero county commissioner over the objections of the county attorney, they decided it was definitely worth spending nearly $15,000 and taxpayer funds to have that guy and his company conduct an audit of the election results in the county and trump carried over by 25 points. well, this week we learned from daily news, alam accord oh that the state auditor of new mexico has opened a new investigation into how the county awarded that contract confirmed it opened a special examination over an agreement between otero county and affirmed to audit the results of the 2020 election asserting the contract could violate stave proof human loss. joining us now is new mexico state auditor, brian cologne
going to be part of the question. woodrow this transaction. was it appropriate, legal, compliant with all our coats, regulations and procurement process? and was it in the best interest of the taxpayers or was this the situation where we really had wasted government, of this audit, there s already been an audit on this election bipartisan panel. the question is is it appropriate to spend another $50,000 to audit the election or is the personal agenda driving the decision? you got an attorney for the county that advised against it, and then the commission certainly can act against attorneys guidance, but in this case we are going to do a full and complete investigation and make sure that dollar was that s my job. i do it every day. we do it for all 33 counties of new mexico. you mexico state auditor brian cologne, thank you for helping us understand this. this is a situation a different reiteration of in a number of
of the taxpayers was at the situation where it was really bad. the question is, is it appropriate to spend another $50,000 to audit the election or is the personal agenda driving the decision you got an attorney for the county that advised against it, and then the commission certainly can act against attorneys guidance, but in this case we are going to do a full and complete investigation and make sure that dollar was miss spent without the appropriate process. that s my job. i do it every day. we do it for all 33 counties of new mexico. mexico state auditor, brian cologne, thank you for helping us understand. this this is a situation a different reiteration of this number of different states. your investigation at the county level is something unique we ve never seen in other places. we look forward to staying intentional. we look forward to staying in touch. indeed, thank you sir.
news conference today after mourning their loss and remembering the 22-year-old at a memorial service sunday fear her hometown of blue point, new york, on long island. her remains are still in wyoming after the f.b.i. continues their investigation. we want her home immediately but we understand their decision and we know that she s safe with them and we felt it was important to come home so we could mourn her, celebrate her life and be with family and friends. her boyfriend still remains a person of interest in the case and who hasn t been seen for two weeks. the family was asked if they could tell us anything about where they think laundry could be or if they know anything about his parent s knowledge of where he is. the laundries did not help us find gabby. though sure aren t going to help us find brian. today the search for brian shifted to for the de soto park