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TexasTowelie

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Mon Dec 26, 2016, 03:00 AM Dec 2016

New Mexico health exchange wrote letter in governor's name

SANTA FE - A letter praising President Barack Obama’s health care law circulated widely in recent days and was purported to be sent by New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez. But the Republican governor did not write the letter or know about it.

The head of New Mexico’s health care exchange office said Thursday her office wrote the letter without Martinez’s knowledge or approval. BeWellnm interim CEO Linda Wedeen described the letter as a rough draft that never was reviewed by the governor before it inadvertently got out and was obtained by media outlets.

A spokesman for Martinez said the governor never would have signed the document because she wants the law overturned.

The unauthorized letter was addressed to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and copied to a list of Congressional leaders, but was never sent to them.

Read more: http://www.currentargus.com/story/news/2016/12/22/nm-health-exchange-wrote-letter-governors-name/95775756/

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