Neither Denish nor Martinez will surrender their juice

Not to put too fine a point on it, but;

the way government works in New Mexico is that powerful people create and maintain their political power by surrounding themselves with supporters; most commonly public servants beholden for their government jobs.

Both DA Susana Martinez and Lt Gov Diane Denish have indicated that they will reduce the number of public employees, in particular the number of "political appointees", but they will not point to the system they will use to do it.

Neither is willing to surrender to a process for eliminating ineffective and inefficient public employees that is beyond their undue influence.

Denish claims she will fight for New Mexico families.
Will she be defending them against the corrupt and the
incompetent? How?

Martinez claims she will fight against corruption.
Will she run the corrupt and the incompetent out of politics and public service? How?

They both claim they will end the state employment of undeserving politicians and public servants, yet neither is willing to burn the bridge behind them by promoting an impartial system, over which they cannot exert undue influence, that will accomplish that end. Instead, we are supposed to trust them to not protect the jobs of unworthy political appointees and hires.

"Trust" as an agent of good government, runs a far distant second to transparent accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence for politicians and public servants within their public service.

Neither wants to run the bus of corruption and incompetence off a cliff. They would rather just take the wheel and have us trust them to keep things under control.

Neither is willing to adopt a plan that ends the culture of corruption in Santa Fe, that doesn't grandfather in, past corruption and incompetence.

Why else would they not point to an impartial system that will hold politicians and public servants honestly accountable for their the conduct, competence, and value, except to leave the door open to protect the jobs of at least a few people,

just in case?