Michael Morris – In Focus

Today has been truly astounding. Some of you may know that Deputy DA Dave Ceballes announced yesterday at the monthly meeting of the Republican Women of Otero County that he is indeed running for DA. What this means, unless we are in the middle of some childish mis-direction, is that Ceballes’ mentor Scot Key is not seeking another term. This realization is not mine, but rather the axiomatic belief of every one of my readers, contributors and critics alike who have taken the time to call or write me today asking, quite mockingly, what I will do without Key to beat on. Since I have apparently allowed myself to be type cast in the eyes of some newer readers it is incumbent upon me to clear up the work ahead.

While Mr. Key is certainly the rotten head on the grotesque torso of the DA’s office we must not forget much of the flesh on that torso and limbs is rancid as well. Perhaps a few examples will help readers understand that ridding ourselves of Scot Key is not a milestone itself, but merely a single step in returning at least some credibility and integrity to an office no one trusts even when they are doing right. It is equally important that during this election we take great care not to pollute this election process the way we saw in the Hatch Act meddling that chased off John Lee for Otero County Sheriff last election or caused Rick Virden to quit his job to run for the Lincoln County badge 4 years ago. I don’t know if Dave Ceballes is using or supervising the use of some federal grant or another in his job and, to the extent it brings feds meddling, I do not care. If you move to cheat the voters out of a candidate by bringing in the feds then it is you who deserves the tar and the feathers. Bigger picture folks.

Now to those examples. Sandra Grisham is nominally the “Children’s Court Attorney”. She has been doing this since just a short while after the voters threw her from the District Bench. We all saw her work during the Posey trial, so I will not go back after that. Last year Grisham tried, unsuccessfully, to become a judge in Carlsbad. That flopped, sources say, as a result of her conduct in the Posey trial. Well, duh, it is not as if hiring perjury, threatening witnesses during recorded depositions, misquoting the law and making New Mexico the gasping stock of the civilized world are the kind of traits the commission was looking for. There is no room for any new direction in that office with a Children’s Court Attorney who hates children. This throwback to a Dickens nightmare is perhaps the fetid left hand.

Ah, but Ms. Grisham is not only part of the putrification, she is also sponsor of its expansion. Not unlike Sandra Grisham, her husband, Mr. Wayne Jordan-Grisham, is not much of a lawyer either. When it became obvious that Wayne’s “private practice” was not going to provide any kind of future Sandy got him a job at her work. Isn’t that special? Well you have to understand that the job was really meant to get Wayne Jordan some retirement benefits in order to save him from a sign on a corner in his later years. While this may seem nice and so forth to some of you here is the deal. In order to buy this retirement we are spending tax dollars to employ this guy who openly aspires to one day be bottom of the barrel all in order to save these two from the cardboard condo in later years.

I will expand these examples as time goes on. Just remember this cesspool is far deeper than the solids floating on the surface. There is no change in mission here.