New Recording Suggests Martinez was Drunk

A new recording from a police sergeant’s belt recorder suggests New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) was inebriated the night officers responded to a noise complaint at a hotel where she was hosting a holiday party, the AP reports.

“Martinez’s speech is halting and lilting as she describes the situation in an upstairs hotel room after the ballroom gala… The incident also threatens to freeze Martinez’s rising influence within her party as chair of the Republican Governors Association, a fundraising arm of the GOP.”