'Where's that Shoe?'
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | Sean Olson
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Gov. Susana Martinez has had only a couple of months to hire a staff that will run the executive branch of state government, build a proposed budget and come up with a legislative agenda before New Mexico lawmakers convene Tuesday.
It hasn't left much time to move.
"We have boxes everywhere," the former district attorney from Las Cruces told the Journal. "I can find one shoe, but not the other. It's very difficult."
Meanwhile, the official Santa Fe digs for the new governor and her husband, former Doña Ana County Undersheriff Chuck Franco, haven't been a quick fit either. They are staying in the one-bedroom guest apartment at the Governor's Mansion while workers paint the primary residential area — a job required in part because it smelled like smoke. "...we've been there 10, 11 days now because there was heavy smoking going on inside the house, cigar and cigarette," Martinez said.
Their dogs have had to be left behind in Las Cruces, at least for now, until they can raise the fences at the Governor's Mansion and prevent wildlife disasters. "There are deer everywhere, and they are on the lawn," Martinez said. "I tell my husband, 'You cannot take out your firearm.' "
Franco, the first gentleman, discovered another possible boon from having Lupe Jackson [the remaining cook] at the mansion, but the governor is not keen on letting him get used to it. "The other day he got caught by Lupe doing the laundry and she said, 'What are you doing?' " Martinez said. "I said, 'Let him do the laundry.' "
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