Bill McMorris at Watchdog.org combined all the state Watchdog reporting on federal stimulus money going to phantom Congressional districts, and then dug through the rest of the data reported at recovery.gov, the $84 million website established by the Obama Administration to “track every last penny,” as our President put it, of the $787 billion stimulus. [...]

The number of jobs created in New Mexico has exploded 1,200% in less than a month, according to data on the Obama Administration’s recovery.gov website, which tracks stimulus spending and claimed impacts. On October 21, 2009, New Mexico Watchdog reported that the www.recovery.gov website was claiming that only 419.02 jobs had been created from the [...]

New Mexico Watchdog is proud to be part of a national effort to shine more light on state and local governments. State think tanks know that the pullback in state house reporting by newspapers hurts democracy and makes for unaccountable government. We are a mix of veteran journalists, young reporters, accountants, lawyers and policy analysts. [...]

Lt. Governor Diane Denish has issued a flawed mea culpa for using federal stimulus dollars to fund her political operations. After initially calling our reporting (in her KNME-TV interview last Friday) a “patently false lie” and attacking our credibility by labeling us a right-wing group instead of addressing the facts as reported, she has now [...]

In response to inquiries begun by New Mexico Watchdog, Lt. Governor Diane Denish has admitted to improper use of federal stimulus funds. Her office has never responded to our questions. Nor has her office sent us the news release sent to other media organizations. Therefore, we will link to the excellent coverage of this development [...]

A worker for Lt. Governor Diane Denish was paid from public funds for time billed on August 4, 2004, as “work on Kerry for Saturday.” That Saturday, on a train leased by his presidential campaign committee, John Kerry rolled into Las Vegas, New Mexico, for a political rally and then into Albuquerque for the night. [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, we are living through the period of worst government corruption in the history of the State of New Mexico. Within the past several years we have seen the conviction of two State Treasurers (one of whom was also State Auditor), the former President Pro Tempore of the State Senate, a [...]

The Albuquerque Journal is exceptionally careful in its reporting of malfeasance in office. They put two reporters on the job to check my reporting and the rebuttal offered by Lt. Governor Diane Denish. Sean Olson and Dan Boyd looked at the same invoices and time records as I. It also appears the Lt. Governor’s office [...]

In response to our report on how Lt. Governor Diane Denish chose to spend $225,000 of federal funds given to her by the Governor for “various projects,” there have been calls for investigation and audits. Alan Weh, former chair of the NM GOP has called for an investigation. Heather Wilson, the former Congresswoman from Albuquerque, [...]

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