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Monday, July 12, 2010
Raj Shah, Spokesperson for Susana Martinez Campaign, Arrested for Aggravated DWI
Embarrassing news for the GOP gubernatorial campaign of Susana Martinez this weekend. According to a report on the Albuquerque Journal website yesterday, Raj Shah, a spokesperson for Martinez's campaign, was arrested early Sunday morning in Albuquerque on a charge of aggravated DWI. The 25-year-old Shah, who was driving a silver BMW, was stopped by the State Police near the intersection of San Mateo and Osuna, and arrested soon afterwards. As of this morning, Shah was still in the Metropolitan Detention Center being held on a $5,000 bond.
According to Martinez's campaign manager, Ryan Cangiolosi, Shah was terminated from his job as communications director for Martinez on Sunday afternoon. Shah had arrived in New Mexico about a week ago to work on the campaign. Previously he worked for a Republican Senate candidate in Connecticut and for the Republican National Committee in Washington.
July 12, 2010 at 09:01 AM in 2010 NM Governor's Race, Crime, Susana Martinez | Permalink
Comments
maybe she can get him off this dwi conviction too.
Posted by: mary ellen | Jul 12, 2010 9:11:57 AM
Susana is very good at plea bargaining DWI cases down I hear!
Posted by: Sean | Jul 12, 2010 10:38:28 AM
Shocking! Another right wing hypocrite! Do as I say not as I do.
Posted by: Silver City | Jul 12, 2010 12:48:10 PM
Being that you're so for democracy, isn't it only fair that this young man has an opportunity to speak and explain himself before he's crucified in the public eye?
Posted by: Ashley | Jul 13, 2010 1:09:05 AM
@Ashley, your absolutely correct, but whats to explain, how many drinks it took to reach aggravated DWI status???
Posted by: VP | Jul 13, 2010 7:24:33 AM
In regard to the above two comments, I would also point out that it was the Martinez campaign that fired this guy and summarily released this information to the public. D for NM is simply reporting it - so who should be being admonished here, the writers of this blog or the Martinez campaign for firing and releasing this information before this guy had his due process?
Posted by: Local Dem | Jul 13, 2010 8:38:24 AM
