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2015 Recap: A lot of Duran, APS scandal fallout in September
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August ended with a bang (see the recap if you haven’t already) with the resignation of Albuquerque Public Schools superintendent Luis Valentino and criminal charges filed against Dianna Duran. The start of September was all about the fallout from those two major stories—mostly the Duran story. Duran legal troubles
NM Political Report looked at how a Secretary of State vacancy could come about and what that would mean. One of those was impeachment and removal from office; the Speaker of the House formed a committee to begin the impeachment process with Zach Cook, R-Ruidoso, and Gail Chasey, D-Albuquerque, as co-chairs; the committee held one meeting and hired an attorney to aid in the investigation but that was it and the committee never held a second meeting. Duran, for her part, was nowhere to be seen even two weeks after the charges were filed (she showed up to work for the first time more than three weeks after the charges were filed).