we've had experience in otero county where the county commissioner was overreaching.stigation and we found that there were inappropriate expenditures. that kind of commissioner had to give money back to the taxpayers of terrell county, and now we have this concern advanced by the county commissioner in otero county. now for me would i always have to look at is is this transaction in the best interest of taxpayers? in this particular concern, you've got to wonder whether this has to do with the personal agenda and that's going to be part of the question. woodrow this transaction. was it appropriate, legal, compliant with all our coats, regulations and procurement process? and was it in the best interest of the taxpayers or was this the situation where we really had wasted government, of this audit, there's already been an audit on this election bipartisan panel. the question is is it appropriate to spend another $50,000 to audit the election or is the personal agenda driving the decision? you got an attorney for the county that advised against it, and then the commissi

apparently that 25 point margin for trump fans in otero county. er this month the commissioners their decided they would authorize and after the fact audit of the county's 2020 election results. this is the same kind of thing the republicans of done in arizona, wisconsin, pennsylvania, i should note that one of the county commissioners who voted for the audit has himself been indicted for breaching the capitol on january 6th and all three otero county commissions shows a company to run this audit that is led by an election conspiracy theorist who claims to have invented email and who claims that the way the election was stolen was that in every single state in 2020, trump's share of the vote was reduced by exactly 4. 2%. he knows this is how they did it, because he learned this from a close contextual reading of the 1970s sci-fi comedy classic, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. that had the secret to stealing the election. the otero county commissioner over the objections of the county attorney, they decided it was definitely worth spending near

and that county commission her to give that money back to the taxpayers of otero county. now we have this concern. advanced by the county commissioner in otero county. now for me, what i always have to look through the lens is, is this transaction in the best interest of taxpayers. in this particular concern, we got to wonder whether this has something to do with a personal agenda, and that's going to be part of the question, what drove this transaction, appropriate, legal, compliant, with all of our codes, procurement process and was it in the best interest of the taxpayers or is this a situation with waste in government. this audit, there has already been an audit on this election by a bipartisan panel, the question is, is it appropriate to spend another $50,000 to audit the election or personal agenda driving the decision? you have an attorney for the county who advised against it. and the commission certainly can act against its attorney's guidance but in this case, we're going to do a full and complete investigation to make sure note one dollar was misspent or spent w