To: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
Governor Martinez: Matt Kennicott Must Resign
Secret recordings reveal your Communications Director for the New Mexico Human Services Department Matt Kennicott suggesting another of your male advisors direct the Commission on the Status of Women so that, "he can study more women."
Governor, this behavior by a public servant is unacceptable, and he should be forced to immediately resign from the position you have given him in your administration.
Why is this important?
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has dubbed herself the most transparent governor in state history. Yet newly released secret recordings reveal her advisers joking about the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women, a constitutionally-mandated advisory council which saw its funding gutted by Martinez.
In the recordings, current New Mexico Human Services Department spokesman Matt Kennicott jokes another male adviser of Martinez direct the commission so he may "study more women."
An expose by Mother Jones points to Martinez and her inner circle's attitude toward women, shows her laughing while discussing ways to cut teacher salaries, and even calling an elder legislator a "retard."
These are not values any elected official should have.