Basically says “Not my Circus, not my monkeys.”
And with that, both area Law Enforcement agencies have placed the venerable ten-foot pole between them and Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s wishes for absolute power. A bit of a weak response, but politics continue to play a role in a Blue City which is the seat of a very Blue Governor. I wonder if she will have the balls to remove both the Chief and the Sheriff and substitute them for obeying lackeys. Whatever would happen next will be interesting to watch.
And this is your usual reminder that elections have consequences.
Problem is, of course, even when ABQ police can do their jobs (I and some local friends have stories), the courts etc provide little to no consequences. Just as we see playing out in NYfC, SFO, etc.
From my post on a previous article:
Finally, how do these control freaks continually get elected? Personally, I suspect an audit of her last election is in order. Well… Personally, I think the events of Athens, TN need to be repeated a bit more often.
https://libcom.org/article/battle-athens-when-wwii-veterans-took-arms-against-corrupt-local-government-tennessee
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“…But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”