Why did Heather Wilson move her husband’s personal file?
From today's Tribune. Emphasis mine.
On Thursday, the chairman of the New Mexico Democratic Party jumped into the mix. John Wertheim seized on a 6-year-old matter that stems from Wilson's tenure as Cabinet secretary of the state Children, Youth and Families Department.Recycling a videotape prepared by a previous Wilson challenger, Democrat Phil Maloof, Wertheim brought up the question of what happened with a personal file on Wilson's husband, Jay Hone, that was kept by her old agency.
The videotape Wertheim was showing reporters is an edited broadcast of a KOAT-TV Channel 7 report, which details how Wilson, in her first week on the job in 1996, ordered a file regarding Hone's role as a foster parent be moved from an Albuquerque warehouse to department headquarters in Santa Fe.
Wilson has said she didn't want a file containing personal information available to department employees. She has produced an affidavit signed by the agency's former counsel, that states the documents were sealed and locked away. Wilson was not allowed access to the files, the affidavit states, and the files remained intact through Wilson's tenure at the agency, which lasted until 1998, when she was elected to her current office.
I wonder what's in the file. Probably nothing. She moved it because there was nothing. Move along. These aren't the droids you're looking for.
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If he hadn't been up to
If he hadn't been up to something he wouldn't have had a file. Plain and simple. You don't get a CYFD file for a simple spanking.Second, in Wilson's moving of the file there is at the very least the appearance of impropriety. CYFD files are confidential, and for her to shift the blame for her shifty actions onto the department's employees is disgusting, although admittedly become typical behavior for a Republican. Third, it was stupid of her to move it. If she had half the sense she's given credit for she would have let it sit and moulder ignored in a drawer.