New Mexico MADD chapter moves offices Downtown to better monitor DWI cases

Albuquerque Tribune ^ | 7/26/07 | Christopher Sanchez

[elkfersupper]

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[dragnet2]

MADD chapter moves offices Downtown to better monitor DWI cases

DAMM, (Drunks Agaist MADD Mothers) are not supporting this move.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Pretty much everything, as far as I can tell.

[elkfersupper]

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[elkfersupper]

I particularly enjoyed these parts:

"We strategically moved here so we can be near all our partners," Huertaz said. The court monitors will be paid between $30,000 and $40,000 per year, she said.

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[Mark was here]

Probably moving so the staff can have more happy hour options.

[Larry Lucido]

Yeah. Why the f*** are taxpayers paying the cushy salaries of members of a lobbying group?

[KoRn]

"The court monitors will be paid between $30,000 and $40,000 per year, she said."

That's pretty good pay just to sit in a courtroom.

[elkfersupper]

Yeah. Why the f*** are taxpayers paying the cushy salaries of members of a lobbying group?

They're actually being paid (with tax dollars) to intimidate judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, witnesses, jurors, and defendants.

[Larry Lucido]

Yep, there’s that too.

[AlaskaErik]

Anybody see anything wrong with this story?

Yes, it's time to stop the MADDness.

[Horatio Gates]

I’ve seen this before with other activist groups getting grant funding. In my experience the stink is they garner political influence and think (sometimes do) they can dictate policy and how to do the job to the police. But to get paid too...holy crap.

[razorback-bert]

Any idea on how many DWi case a year, just wonder what the pay scale works out to be per case.

[inneroutlaw]

"We don't want to be an organization throwing rocks at the system - we want to be part of the solution."

No, they don't. It's all about power, control and revenue. Just like the anti-smoking nazis, they are way too dependent on the taxes to advocate banning the product altogether.

Oh, and particularly in Albuquerque, where were they for the cases involving the DWI arrests of the son of the Fire Chief, the son of the Director of the DWI Task Force, the mayor's minor daughter's arrest for underage drinking, etc., etc., ad nauseum?

[elkfersupper]

Any idea on how many DWi case a year, just wonder what the pay scale works out to be per case.

400 in March of this year in Albuquerque alone (the last month reported)

They keep going at this pace and pretty soon the whole state will be convicted.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Yeah. Why the f*** are taxpayers paying the cushy salaries of members of a lobbying group?

Why isn't the ACLU aware of such a thing...too busy trying to stop some little kid from praying about the math test (s)he didn't study for maybe?

Maybe they need to pay attention to this.

[razorback-bert]

BTW, coming home from Toyah today, I saw four stop and sniffs in operation.

Five DPS cars and one brand new shiny blue Crown Vic bearing a supervisor.

[montanajoe]

I dont see MADD as a conservative group... they have fooled alot of folks unfortunately