of the election results in the county that trump carried by over 25 points. this week we learned from the alamogordo daily news that the state aud thor of new mexico has opened a new investigation into how the county awarded that contract, the new mexico state governor s office confirmed it opened a special examination over an agreement between otero county and the audit of the election asserting the contract could violate state procurement laws. joining us now is new mexico state auditor brian, whose office is looking into the contract in otero county. thanks for joining us tonight. great to be with you, rachel. thanks for having me. did i get any of that wrong, or is there any part of this that s important to the story that i left out? you know, rachel, i think you got it just exactly right, i didn t know much about the hitchhiker s guide to the galaxy part of the story, but i think it s excellent writing. what prompted you and your
at least, you shouldn t be. the conflict of interest is oh so clearly evidence in brnovich s latest fund raising plea. brnovich s heart may lie with trump, but his obligation remains to the people of arizona. he should resign. that s from the arizona republic today. calls for the arizona attorney general to resign if, among other things, he s not gonna prosecute the states fake electors. and i m i m not close enough to arizona politics of the likelihood of any resignation here, i m guessing it s not gonna happen. but if you re wondering why there is a need for a federal investigation if you re wondering why the u.s. justice department now says they are investigating, well, this kind of michigan in the states might help explain why that s needed. in this case, no action for more than a year, even in the most clear cut imaginable case where state law was definitely, for sure, no doubt about it, broken. it, broken
to spend another $50,000 to audit the election or personal agenda driving the decision? you have an attorney for the county who advised against it. and the commission certainly can act against its attorney s guidance but in this case, we re going to do a full and complete investigation to make sure note one dollar was misspent or spent without the appropriate process. that s my job. i do it every day. we do it for all 33 counties of new mexico. new mexico state auditor brian colon thanks for helping us understand this. it is again, this is a situation that we have seen, a different iteration of it, in a number of states, your investigation of this is an expenditure at the county level, it is something unique that we haven t seen at other places. looking forward to staying apprised on the progress of your investigation. thank you, sir. we look forward to staying in touch. no one is above the law in new mexico and we will hold everyone accountable. indeed. we ll be right back. eryo
laurie roberts writing this week for the arizona republic. quote, anyone waiting breathlessly for attorney general mark run of itch to launch an investigation into the fake trump electors who participated in the scheme to overturn arizona s vote should wait no longer. brnovich is a latest fund raising plea makes it abundantly clear that he has no intention of actually doing his job. and then she shows this recent fundraising gambit from the attorney general. are you really going to ignore president trump? we thought he could count on you, brnovich says in this fund-raiser making the rounds to republicans on facebook. quote, this is your last chance to help flip arizona and take back the senate! don t miss your chance to be on trump s team! lori roberts continues, quote, set aside for a second that this fundraising plea is a blatant misrepresentation of the truth. trump hasn t endorsed brnovich and arizona, and in fact, through a fund-raiser for one of brnovich s opponents. brnovich is
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.