Steve Green's Unfair Electioneering & Unethical Conduct

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Steve Green's Unfair Electioneering & Unethical Conduct

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Steve Green drives around in this wrecked truck.

New Mexico State Police stopped this truck & cited Mr. Green for no tail lights & no insurance.

What Did Steve Green

          Do Wrong?

~ When Steve Green was preparing to run for T or C

    City Commissioner, he should have cleared his

    reputation, then - not now that his ethics are

    being questioned in multiple ways.

   In the Sentinel  Newspaper, Fall '07 just before the

    T or C Municipal Election campaign period began,

   Mr. Green was listed under police reports as having

   been cited by the New Mexico State Police

   for driving with no tail lights, and driving with no

   insurance.

    The above are examples describing Steve Green's

                             TRUE character.

IMPORTANTLY,

~ Steve Green should not have ever been

   working at the polling place during the Feb.

   5, '08 Democratic Presidential Preference

   Caucus.

    Further, Steve Green worked as a

    Registration Clerk or Ballot Box Monitor,

   signing in voters or issuing ballots (with

    access of up to 680 Democratic voters who

    voted in-person that day).

~ Steve Green should never have parked his

    truck at the corner of Daniels and McAdoo

    Streets (for approx. fourteen hours) with

   multiple campaign signs attached to it

   advertising his bid for T or C

    City Commissioner, Position #5.

~ Steve Green should not have spoken one

    word about his campaign, the upcoming

    T or C Election, or that a municipal judge

    was also being decided.

~ Steve Green should not have "held up the

    vote" by having personal conversation with

    someone he just met because he was

    checking  voter identification, and she gave

    him her driver's license. Mr. Green realized

    her address was a few blocks from his, and

    he then campaigned for himself. He

   told her to vote in the upcoming municipal

   election where he was running for City

   Commissioner, along with some others.

Steve Green should not have done this.

~ Deborah Toomey, Chairperson, Sierra County

     Democratic Party, and Steve Green, should never

     have entered into a working relationship to

     intentionally give Mr. Green an advantage - this

     Ms. Toomey emphatically says was her purpose in

     choosing Mr. Green to be a Registration Clerk at

     the Feb. 5th Democratic Presidential Preference

     Caucus. Criminal charges of Conspiracy To Violate

     Election Code, or Accepting A Bribe are possible,

     and are 4th degree felony violations.

~   Steve Green should not have advertised during his

     campaign that servng on NINE different Boards or

     Committees in T or C appeared to be a positive

     thing believing that the more "connections", the

     better. At no time did Steve Green acknowledge

     any conflict-of-interest among these groups -no

     conflict in his leadership roles between them, no

    conflict with decisions he made or helped make

    financially, for individual groups, and no sense that

     what he is doing is WRONG, not right. Bias is

     obvious. ALL people should be represented, not

     just the small clique of people, in T or C, who play

     musical chairs on Boards and Committees - and

    who run all of the Boards and Committees for arts,

    spas, and tourism. They make sure the promotion

     is for them and their friends, not other businesses

     that should and ought to be promoted.

     Now that Steve Green is a City Commissioner,

     notice the cronyism going on among the City of

     Truth or Consequences, Sierra County Arts

     Council, Sierra County Tourism Board, Lodger's

     Tax, Chamber of Commerce, and the Downtown

     Gallery Association? Facts remain that scores of

     people working in the arts, spas and tourism

     businesses are not licensed, are not paying taxes,

     yet, they are promoted with public funds.

     Steve Green should not allow this to happen. He

     should be leading a movement for all people doing

     business in T or C to legitimize their work by

     completing all required city and state forms for

     conducting business in Truth or Consequences.

     Doing the right thing would increase gross receipts

     taxes into T or C. Every small business person

     is required to report their earnings. And T or C is

     mostly made up of small businesses.

     Cronyism should NOT be allowed in deciding who

     gets promoted in T or C, and who doesn't. The

    new sign by the entrance to Wal-Mart using

    arrows pointing to downtown because that's

    where the "lodging district" is located, is another

     recent example of unfair use of advertising and

     promotion in the arts, spas and tourism

     businesses. Facts remain that MOST lodging for

    T or C is NOT downtown. If you look to see

    who's making the financial decisions for this

    type of promotion, you'll see a small circle of

    people who selectively, and clearly biasly, decide

    who gets promoted in T or C, and who doesn't -

     and, it's mostly them! This is wrong, and Steve

    Green should have taken a leadership role to

    change it. A City Commissioner should represent

     all people, not just friends.

~ If promoting tourism is such an important priority

    for Steve Green, then why hasn't Steve Green

    taken a leadership role in enforcing the new rules

    in hot springs, bath houses and spas in T or C? To

    allow two deaths in the hot springs within the last

    two years, is tragic.

    Steve Green should be seeking to improve the

    standards for safety, health and sanitation in the

    hot springs, bath houses and spas.

    If Steve Green wants to promote tourism, then he

    should be confident the places being promoted

    meet and exceed all rules, regulations and laws for

    operating their businesses. It's not fair to tourists.

~ Steve Green should never have allowed his official

    title of T or C City Commissioner to be used in

    advertising of a hard liquor drinking event held at

    a downtown art gallery where he was called a

    "bourbon connoisseur". People paid $35. to attend

    the event where 10 drinks of bourbon were served

    at a Friday night publicly advertised art show.

~ Steve Green should not have said recall petitioners

     lied about his position on gun control. The audio-

     recording of Mr. Green at a City Commission

    meeting proves Mr. Green said he supported the

    introduction of a gun ordinance into the City of

    Tor C. There were no lies told to petition signers.

~ Steve Green should not have denied his

    behavior at the T or C City Commission meeting

    when he said he never campaigned for himself at        the Feb. 5th Democratic Caucus Election.

    A witness to Mr. Green's unfair electioneering

    passed a licensed polygraph exam

     which confirmed that Mr. Green did campaign.

     And, when Steve Green was politely, yet directly

     asked to resign from Position #5 on the T or C City

     Commission, he refused. It was the right thing for

     Steve Green to resign his position. That would

     have shown he realized ethical conduct mattered,

     and that he had demonstrated unethical conduct

     during his campaign which caused three other

     candidates to loose the election against him.

~   Steve Green is currently also wrong to enlist his

     supporters to launch a smear campaign trying to

     make the petitioners wrong when all the wrong-

     doing has been done by Steve Green.

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Below are reproductions of the name badges worn

by the Registration Clerks at the Feb. 5, '08 Democratic

Caucus Election. Mr. Green was reported to have worked a fourteen hour day. 680 registered Democratic voters voted that day in-person. Steve Green's job was to verify the in-person voter's identification, ask him/her to signature the registered voter list, then issue a voting ballot for the person to immediately proceed to the voting booth.

Instead, Steve Green promoted himself with his different name tag, calling attention to his name highlighted in green. And, he did more. Read the webpage "Unfair Electioneering" to read how Steve Green demonstrated what some reviews call criminal conduct, and most agree, was highly unethical.

The other Registration Clerk had her name printed in black ink as required under the Democratic Rules and Guidelines for operating the Caucus.

On Appendix A of the DPNM 2008 Caucus Manual, Guidelines & Rules of Operation nowhere does it list a green pen or green marker for use in printing name badges. A Black Marker is listed as #21.

#14 does specifically list 1 Set of Site Staff Identification Badges requiring that the Site Manager complete them and distribute the identificantion badges to the site staff (which would have meant Steve Green should not have printed his own name badge, and certainly SHOULD NOT HAVE printed his name with green ink, then call further attention to his name badge by drawing a box around his name also with a green marker.

Samual Ace and Margo Donaldson violated the

T or C City Ordinance for political signs in 2008. Their Steve Green political sign stayed posted three weeks after the

T or C Municipal Election was over.

A complaint was submitted to Municipal Court, but denied. And, almost as soon as the complaint was submitted, the political sign came down. Coincidence?

If the allowable fine would have been collected in court, it's possible Mr. Ace and Ms. Donaldson would have been fined more than $200, plus court costs. That money would have gone to the City of T or C.

David Packard and Paula Maslowski had six political signs posted well

after the time limit allowed for elections. Some stayed posted up to 45 days after the allowable time under the T or C City Ordinance for political signs. And, though a complaint was submitted to T or C Municipal Court, it was denied. In the written denial from T or C City Attorney, Jay Rubin, he enclosed a letter sent from City Inspector, Chris Nobes, writing that pursuing the complaints would constitute poor use of municipal resources.

Huh? If those complaints had been accepted into T or C Municipal Court, and the designated fines issued, Mr. Packard and Ms. Maslowski could have been fined more than $1500., plus court costs. That money would have gone to the City of T or C to help with operating expenses. What were Mr. Rubin and Mr. Nobes really doing by denying the complaints?

ETHICS MATTER!

Why did Steve Green's friends

get treated specially - even when they violated a clear T or C City Ordinance?

Does Steve Green, and his friends, believe that CRONYISM is fairplay in

T or C, and they can break laws, violate rules, and behave unethically

without consequence?

Voters can put a STOP to this kind of

"insider" behavior.

STOP Cronyism, Corruption and all UNETHICAL conduct in T or C! All people need representation, not just Steve Green's friends!

Both New Mexico State Highway Department, and the City of Truth or Consequences have rules and ordinances for political signs.

Steve Green violated both.

ETHICS MATTER - in elections, as a political candidate, as an elected official, as a Board of Director, as a Committe Member, and as a public person.

The responsibility of power has been given with any leadership position. It is done with the expectation that public trust is not violated, and all people are represented.

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