Gary King will run for governor in 2014: “There’s plenty to be done”
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There have been rumors for months that New Mexico Attorney General Gary King would challenge Susana Martinez for governor.
On Tuesday (July 10), King confirmed to radio station KANW in Albuquerque that he’ll toss his hat into the ring.
King used to serve in the state legislature and is the son of the late Bruce King, who served three non-consecutive four-year terms as governor between 1971 and 1994. He’s finishing up his second term as attorney general.
Gary King, NM Attorney General
We’ll update the post as we get comments from King.
Update: King spoke to Associated Press Tuesday evening and said he wanted to get an early start on the gubernatorial race:
“These days, starting the governor’s race two and a half years out is not really a long lead time,” King said during a phone interview…
While he filed paperwork with the secretary of state’s office in May to create his campaign committee, King said it will likely be after November before he opens his campaign office.
“I’m doing some organizational work, but I’m still spending the great, great majority of my time working on being attorney general,” he said, pointing to his office’s efforts to fight the sexual exploitation of children and human trafficking…
“There’s plenty to be done in New Mexico,” he said.
Click here to read the AP story.
As attorney general, King has been criticized for moving too slowly on a number of cases, including allegations of “pay to play” by officials within the administration of former Gov. Bill Richardson. King has responded that his office is working hard on the cases and cannot comment on the investigations since they are still underway.
This marks the third time that King has run for governor. In 1998, he lost in the Democratic Party primary to Marty Chavez and in 2002, he withdrew from the primary after Richardson had built up a commanding lead in the polls.
In 2004, King ran for Congress but lost to Steve Pearce in the Second Congressional District.
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Tags: Associated Press, Bill Richardson, Gary King, Hector Balderas, KANW, Susana Martinez
9:47 pm on July 10th, 2012
Does he have no shame? King announces this right after stating his intent to try to investigate Governor Martinez over emails. He will use his prosecutor power to start spurious investigations of her and any other opponents. He tried it on Patrick Lyons, asking to local DA if he could take over prosecuting a speeding ticket, of all things. He went after Hector Balderas, who got it stopped in a closed door hearing with a judge. He went after Rebecca Giron when she started talking about running for Governor amongst the Dem party chairs. No prosecutor should be allowed to run for office while they are in office, and King is the reason why.
12:02 pm on July 11th, 2012
This announcement by Attorney General Gary King proves that his investigation of Governor Martinez email is politically motivated. Next he will announce he is looking into the Downs contract. And he will keep dragging it along until election time, even though he has no proof at all, because that is what he has done with all of his cases. King needs to be recused from any cases involving Governor Martinez based on his now-admitted conflict of interest.
12:29 pm on July 12th, 2012
It’s amazing that King has the gall to cry ‘foul’, when it’s HE who is picking and choosing which cases to investigate.
First of all, when the constitutionality of the Affordable Health care act was challenged; instead of investigating the implications … he ran a poll and #DID NOTHING.
And in the face of VOTER FRAUD during Gov RIchardson’s term, Gary king did nothing.
Then when I was discriminated against when looking for a job, because I had Aspergers. A elderly woman claiming to be a clerk, hung up on me and said that (inspite of the fact I was not rude at all) I was ‘not’ a ‘priority’.
In spite of the fact that I had since emailed Gary King’s office many times, not one of my EMAILS was ANSWERED!
And Gary KING did NOTHING while Screams FOUL because Martinez (in the face of his UNWARRANTED WITCH HUNTS AGAINST HER) demanded that HE release HIS EMAILS!
12:59 pm on July 12th, 2012
Gary King is part of a large mafia that steals natural resources from people. He stalls lawsuits against his buddies, he covers up complaints against his buddies, he and his cronies go after anyone in their way, anyone opposing them, they ruin careers, they file fake lawsuits to drain money and assets from people. He is a disgusting criminal who believes he is above the law. Don’t bother with impeaching him to get him out of the AG’s office, just go straight to arrest, indictment and jail.
4:39 pm on July 12th, 2012
King says, “There’s plenty to be done”. Yeah right, starting with getting the King dynasty out of our state. Gary King gets away with breaking laws and ethics rules because he has prosecutor immunity. We need the governor to support a new law that states that no public official has immunity.
Jane is right, Gary King gets big government subsidies http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/blog-2321-king-corn-the-family-connection.html
4:40 pm on July 12th, 2012
King also violates the state public records law http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2011/03/ag-violated-public-records-act-judge-says/
4:41 pm on July 12th, 2012
And Gary King ignores our state campaign finance contribution limits law http://newmexico.watchdog.org/9664/the-15000-question-for-gary-king/
as well as federal campaign laws http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2012/05/king-broke-campaign-reporting-law-fec-says/
So how come he has never been charged? He is starting to make Richardson look like a saint.
5:05 pm on July 13th, 2012
Gary King is a serial lawbreaker and gets away with it? Well he has so far, such as when he gave a contract to a law firm after they gave him a big contribution. I have a link too Scott.
http://www.clearlynewmexico.com/?p=1501