New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez (R) apologized Friday after members of her staff received loud noise complaints during a holiday party in a hotel in Santa Fe. Martinez, determined to know who made the complaint, was also heard harassing a police dispatcher.
"I want to apologize for the conduct of my staff the night of our holiday party," Martinez apologized in a statement, according to the Examiner.
"There was apparently a party in a hotel room earlier in the night that was disruptive. Someone was also throwing snowballs from a balcony. None of that should have happened and I was not aware of the extent of the behavior, until recently. And that behavior is not acceptable."
"I believe in people accepting responsibility and that is why I'm owning (up to) what happened, and I sincerely apologize," she added.
Dispatch tapes were released containing a noise complaint regarding a hotel room at the Eldorado Hotel and Spa rented by Martinez' staff. Martinez can be heard talking to the dispatchers and telling them that sending officers was unnecessary and inquiring who made the complaint. The officer on the scene said he cannot release the information.
"Why can you not? It's public record, give it to me," Martinez said on the recording, according to Raw Story. "Oh, you can tell the police but you won't tell me? I'll get it from the cops."
Martinez reasoned with the dispatcher that she was with her disabled sisters and six other people in the room.
"We are eating pizza and drinking Cokes, and whoever was throwing bottles is not there, hasn't been there for like six hours," she said after she was told of complaints about someone throwing bottles over the balcony, according to the Associated Press.
Martinez is presently the chair of the Republican Governors Association. She was seated on her second term as governor in 2014.
