Behavioral health witch-hunt: A statewide McCarthyism
Let me start by calling the Governor a liar. A few days ago in an article on the status of mental health services here in Las Cruces, she said that some CEO's of the mental health facilities were getting a salary of 1.5 million dollars a year. At no time have any of these CEO's in New Mexico come close to making that type of salary. The number is deceitful, doesn't apply to any CEO salary and surfaced in reference to multiple individuals at an agency based in Santa Fe — not any one person. It had nothing to do with any organization in the southern part of the state but the Governor repeats the number because it elicits outrage, as it should. If it were true…