Gubernatorial Candidate and District Attorney Susana Martinez is the subject of a backside discussion on Haussamen's site, on public records surrender, link.
One of her defenders argued;
"... she is doing what she thought was within the bounds of the law."
To begin with, I am not comfortable with one of the highest ranking members of law enforcement "thinking"she is following a law, that she might actually be breaking.
More fundamentally, her apologist expressed a disturbing philosophical premise; she can do anything to obfuscate the surrender of public records, as long as it's "legal".
That is a far different concept than a public servant surrendering every record that the law will allow.
There is no such thing as ethical reform that doesn't rest on the foundation of the fundamental ethic; truth telling;
as much as the law will allow.
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