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Monday, June 25, 2007
(Updated) Republican NM House Leader Arrested During Altercation in Roswell
UPDATE: KOB News 4 has video of a response from Foley. He states he won't apologize.
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State Rep. Dan Foley (R-Roswell), who serves as the Republican House Minority Whip in the NM Legislature, was arrested Sunday night in Roswell. According to a Roswell Daily Record article,
State Rep. Dan Foley, R-Roswell, was arrested Sunday evening by Roswell police officers after an altercation during the Gus Macker basketball tournament which was being staged in the back parking lot of the Roswell Mall.
... Charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing an officer, Foley was booked into CCDC Sunday evening and faces a $900 surety bond, according to Moe Espinoza, a CCDC corrections officer.
Click for a video of a KRQE News 13 story about Foley's arrest that aired last night. The story states that, "During that confrontation, a police officer took Foley down." Foley has since bonded out of the Chaves County Detention Center and faces arraignment on Tuesday, June 26th, in Roswell.
Ironically, Rep. Foley is a member of the NM Legislature's Judiciary Committee as well as an advisory member of its Interim Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee and its Interim Legislative Ethics Committee. He's also known as a "law and order," conservative.
Rep. Foley also got into hot water in February of 2006 for requesting a flyover by F-16s at the opening of a Roswell Toyota car dealership owned by Tom Krumland, a prominent Republican donor and 2004 RNC delegate. As reported in an Albuquerque Journal article:
The leader of the New Mexico National Guard has ordered an investigation into a flyover by four F-16 fighter planes for the opening of a Roswell auto dealership.
Brig. Gen. Kenny Montoya authorized the flyover for the day before Veterans Day after being asked by Rep. Dan Foley, R-Roswell. Montoya acknowledged this week that he should have looked closer at the request.
Ah the circles are small in New Mexico. According to a item on Talking Points Memo, it turns out that Tom Krumland's wife, Linda Chavez Krumland, chaired a group called New Mexicans for Honest Courts that bought anti-David Iglesias radio ads earlier this year.
June 25, 2007 at 09:34 AM in Crime, Local Politics, NM Legislature 2007 | Permalink
Comments
Another sleazy Republic from the party of higher ethics and moral standards, say it ain't so? As what has become typical of a RePuke he was whining and blaming anyone and everyone else for his bad behavior during his news interview.
Posted by: VP | Jun 26, 2007 7:04:07 AM
My first impression of this guy was sitting in a small room, waiting to testify on a particular bill during the last legislative session in Santa Fe, and there he was, not even paying attention to what was being said by the committee chair, passing notes back and forth to a "colleague." Because of where I was sitting, I could actually see what was being written. Of course, it had nothing to do with the bills being discussed and everything to do with a cute blonde woman who was, according to both of these losers, (and I'll put it in my phrasing, "lacking in bosom."
I noticed these types of childish, teenaged, antics from him several times.
Seems his character holds true...
Although, if my kid was tossed to the ground by a (um, non-existent? who knows 'cause the police aren't releasing the report) "coach", I might want to intervene, as well.
Uh-huh.
Isn't this guy just a great example?
Geez.
Posted by: Natalie | Jun 26, 2007 2:31:22 PM
In today's Monahan blog, Joe reports Foley used the F word,spat tobacco juice on one of the officers and threatened to have them all lose their jobs. I ran against him not in the last election but the one befoe that. I couldn't beat him. I think again democrats need to be more vocal on these self-righteous republicans who as lawmakers thwart the law. Another example of a republican doing the same kind of thing is Senator Dianna Duran. they should be held accountable for their actions and not use their position to intimidate people and to get their own way. Stephanie L. DuBois
Posted by: Stephanie DuBois | Jun 27, 2007 8:27:13 AM
