NM Centennial Governors: 31 - Susana Martinez Mystery Cache
NM Centennial Governors: 31 - Susana Martinez
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In observance of New Mexico's Centennial Celebration, this series of caches is set up to honor the men(and one woman) who have led this state.
Each cache is a puzzle cache. The cache is not at the posted location. You will have to read the biography of each Governor and apply some basic math principles to numeric data contained in the biographies. A calculator is not required, but may be helpful. Most of the caches are fairly easy to find, but a few may be tricky.
Susana Martinez
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Susana Martinez (born July 14, 1959) is the 31st and current Governor of New Mexico.[1][2] Martinez, a Republican since 1995, is the first female governor of New Mexico[3] and the first female Hispanic governor in the United States.[4][5][6][7] Martinez was the Assistant District Attorney for the 3rd Judicial District, serving Doña Ana County, New Mexico from 1986 to 1992. She served 14 years as District Attorney, from 1997 to 2011.
She was considered a potential pick for Vice President on the Republican presidential ticket in 2012, but stated numerous times she would not run.[9][10][11]
Early life and education
Susana was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. Martínez comes from a middle-class background. Her father, Jake Martinez, was a boxer for the U.S. Marines during the Korean War, and he also won three straight Golden Gloves titles in the 1950s. He was a deputy sheriff for El Paso County, Texas.[12][13] Her mother worked in various offices. Martinez grew up with one sister and one brother.[13]
She attended El Paso's Riverside High School, where she was student body president.[13] She was a top student and graduated in 1977. She earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1981 and later earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1986.[14] Martinez met her husband, Chuck Franco, in Norman, Oklahoma, where they were both attending law school. She moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, in the mid 1980s.
Personal life
Martínez's husband, Chuck Franco, has been a law enforcement officer for more than 30 years and served as the Doña Ana County Undersheriff. Susana has one stepson, Carlo, who served in the United States Navy.[15]
On September 9, 2011, Martinez stated that she did not know whether her paternal grandparents immigrated to the country illegally.[16] On more thorough research it turned out that they appeared to follow the rules at the time and that she is a descendant of Mexican Revolutionary General Toribio Ortega.[17] On November 14, 2011, Martinez visited Cuchillo Parado, Mexico, for a celebration in honor of randy orton
Political positions
In 1995, Martinez changed her membership from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.[18][19][20] On August 29, 2012, Martinez gave a speech to the Republican National Convention where she spoke right before Paul Ryan and described her decision to switch parties. She told the story that she was taken to lunch by Republican friends who wanted her to switch parties. She stated that she was only going to be polite, but when she left the luncheon with her husband, she had changed her mind. She told the convention, "When we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, ‘I’ll be damned – we’re Republicans."[21]
Economy
Martínez supports a balanced budget and lower government spending. She favors putting taxpayer money into a rainy day fund, and refunding taxpayers to attempt to stimulate growth.[22]
Pro-life
Martinez is pro-life and is opposed to elective abortion.[23]
Same-sex marriage
Martinez is opposed to same-sex marriage and civil unions.[24]
Marijuana
Martinez opposes New Mexico's medical marijuana program, but has indicated that repealing New Mexico's existing law is not a priority.[25]
Assistant District Attorney
Martinez was the Assistant District Attorney for the 3rd Judicial District, serving Doña Ana County, New Mexico from 1986 to 1992.[26] As Assistant District Attorney she developed a specialty in the office of working with sexually abused children and developing a multidisciplinary team (that included help for victims) and she participated in seminars that would relate specifically to domestic violence and sexual offenses, rapes and women and children. Her first supervisor, Doug Driggers, who is now a state district judge in Las Cruces, spoke highly of her work.[13] Driggers promoted her to Deputy District Attorney.[13]
Deputy District Attorney
After being promoted to Deputy District Attorney, Martinez campaigned for Driggers as he was running for a third term as District Attorney. Driggers lost the Democratic primary election to Greg Valdez, a defense attorney. Martinez was fired by Valdez shortly after his election. Valdez fired Martinez the day she notified him that she had received a subpoena for a personnel hearing involving a DA investigator he had terminated. The Albuquerque Journal quotes Martinez as saying, "My first question to him when he handed me my (termination) papers was, 'Does this have to do with the (subpoena)?' ... And his response was, and I'll never forget it, 'I'm not going to tell you either way.' I grabbed my letter and I left."[13]
Valdez in a recent interview confirmed that he didn't give her a reason at the time. But he said he let her go for two reasons. On one case she handled, she had missed some key timelines, Valdez said. On another, she brought a case into the office on which her husband, Chuck Franco, was working."[26]
Martinez filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Valdez and was awarded an out-of-court settlement of $100,000-$120,000.[27]
She later twice defeated Valdez in the general election for District Attorney with approximate 18-point and 20-point wins respectively.[13]
District AttorneyMartinez was first elected district attorney in the 3rd Judicial District in 1996 with nearly 60% of the vote.[28] She was re-elected three times since.[29] As a prosecutor, Martínez focused on cases involving public corruption and child abuse.[30] Martinez also worked to pass legislation that would expand Katie's Law. This would "require a DNA sample for all felony arrests." While Governor of New Mexico, Martinez signed the expansion bill into law in April 2011.
While District Attorney, Franco's relationship with Martinez was twice raised as a concern "when she had to decide whether officer-involved shootings were justified."[31] In 1992, Martinez was fired by then-district attorney Greg Valdez. Valdez stated that Martinez brought in a case that Franco was working on.[26] "A potential conflict of interest between Martinez and Franco was an issue in the late 1990s, when she first became district attorney. Franco was a magistrate judge, and some cases being prosecuted by the district attorney’s office were assigned to him. Franco was running for re-election in 1996, the same year Martinez first ran for DA. His Democratic opponent and others said there would be a conflict if both were elected. But Franco and Martinez said Franco would recuse himself from all cases involving the DA’s office."[31]
1997-2001
"A high-profile criminal racketeering prosecution by her office in 1999 did raise ethical issues of conflict of interest and whether she was personally biased against the defendants."[13]
"The state Supreme Court ultimately barred her office from prosecuting the case in 2005, after Martinez refused to refer the case to another DA's office and continued to appeal lower court rulings that went against her. The criminal charges were ultimately dismissed by a special prosecutor."[13]
"Martinez said in an interview that she didn't instigate the criminal investigation and that the high court found only an appearance of a conflict. To this day, she said, she wouldn't have done anything differently in the case."[13]
2001-2005
In 2003 and 2004, Martinez's office bought over $60,000 in supplies from a "top deputy district attorney who had a home-based office supply business."[13]
Martinez argued that the purchases "were not put to a competitive bid, saved taxpayers money and were within the law." Officials of the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration questioned whether the sales had a "public benefit," and also told the District Attorney's office to stop using the vendor.[13]
2005-2009
On December 22, 2006, Martinez along with a sheriff, announced that a convicted felon had confessed to the murder of Katie Sepich.[32]
Martinez supervised a budget of $6.3 million for 2008-09. During this time, the office had 80 employees. "It was the third-largest office in the state in terms of number of employees and cases prosecuted that year."[13]
In 2008, Heart Magazine named Martinez “Woman of the Year” for her dedication to children’s advocacy and her efforts to keep children safe.[29]
2009-2011
In March 2010, Martinez was named New Mexico's "Prosecutor of the Year" by the Prosecutors Section of the State Bar of New Mexico.[33][34]
2010 gubernatorial election
Primary
Susana Martínez won the Republican nomination for Governor of New Mexico in the primary election on June 1, 2010; she won 51% of the vote in a five-way contest. Martinez defeated PR firm owner Doug Turner, State Representative Janice Arnold-Jones, Pete Domenici, Jr. (son of the former U.S. Senator from New Mexico Pete Domenici), and former Republican Party state chairman Allen Weh.[35] During the primary election campaign, Martínez was endorsed by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.[36]
General
Martínez defeated Diane Denish in the general election in November 2010. One element of her platform was to secure the United States - Mexico border from illegal immigrants. The Martínez vs. Denish race and the simultaneous Mary Fallin vs. Jari Askins race in Oklahoma were the third and fourth cases of woman vs. woman gubernatorial races in U.S. history (after the elections of Kay Orr in Nebraska in 1986 and Linda Lingle in Hawaii in 2002).[37]
Cache location is N 34°23.ABC, W 103°10.XYZ
WHERE:
A = Served as ADA and DA of ? Judicial District
BC = Reverse of last 2 digits of birth year
X = Square root of (Sum of the digits of the year 1st elected DA)
YZ = ('A' cubed) plus (Sum of the digits of the year first elected DA)
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