Legislators to propose buying small plane
(WorldNews Mexico)

But New Mexico officials might take to the sky again under a bipartisan plan floated by Sen. John Arthur Smith, a Deming Democrat and chairman of the influential Legislative Finance Committee. He said Tuesday that he expects to propose funding in next year’s state budget for a plane that would help Cabinet secretaries and other officials travel throughout New Mexico - the nation’s fifth-largest state by area. ADVERTISEMENTSkip ................................................................ Smith said he was thinking of something more modest than the executive jet famously sold in 2011 by then-Gov. Susana Martinez, who made it a symbol of government excess. “I...