events. i considered him a friend. i wanted to earn the respect and the vote of democrats. and so i thought this was a perfect place to start to build that bipartisan relationship i wanted if i ever became governor. there is a law here. i understand it, you can be here in this state illegally, in this country and you can get a driver s license. you want to change that? why in. new mexicans want to change it. why? the law was first passed because they wanted to increase the number of insured drivers. it did nothing for that. the bottom of the country as far as verdict drivers. what is that about? 2005. okay. so what it did was brought in a criminal industry into the new mexico, organized crime. people who are charging $2,000 to $5,000 to be provided with illegal documents, fraudulent
the president and we re hoping for answers it s been several months that we ve been asking these questions and haven t received responses, but if at the end of the day the responses are not what benefit new mexicans, we can always allow the federal government to push forward those exchanges. greta: it s no secret that there are a lot of eyes on you on 2016. you re a woman, you re a governor, you re hispanic. any thoughts on running for president in 2016? no thoughts on that. i am running for reelection for the governor of new mexico. i want to make sure that i fulfill the promises that i made to new mexicans. that s extremely important to me. greta: before leaving new mexico, we also got to meet the governor s very sweet sister. how is your sister doing as governor. very good. greta: very good? yes. greta: tell me more.
highly contested primary for governor. governor sarah palin came out and supported you, right? she did. greta: what do you think about governor palin s political career and how the public responded to her and the media? i think certainly she is someone that has made a difference in the run party and in the tea party. she has caused a lot of interest to come about in reference to the issues. she speaks a lo a lot about dift issues and how strong she feels about them. i was pleased for her to come and support me. i think it made a difference. i also think that she is still very available to give her opinion in reference to politics and where america s going and whether we re on the right track or not. i think she s certainly free to do that. i was pleased to receive her endorsement. greta: when you became governor, you inherented a in d
of a city because i didn t have a role model beyond that. so they said, why just the mayor? why would you stop there? i said, well, you are here in el paso, you didn t see i just didn t see anyone at a higher level in government. they said, why not you know, think about being a governor or think about being something else? that was the first time i really thought, i can i don t have to limit myself. back in new mexico, governor martinez takes us to the place where in 2009, she first announced her run for governor. all right. this is where you made the announcement for governor? it is. you are a republican? yeah. how does that happen? that doesn t sound there is something there. we became friends throughout the years. and i was district attorney, i ran for district attorney, was very supported financially, provided food for all of my
greta: you must have just about fallen over when you saw the number jump in a period of 24 or 48 hours. absolutely. it was a number that i knew we had to deal with. i knew we had to deal with $2 50 million. i guess we ll have to dea do wht the rest of the people are doing is tighten our belts and figure out how to solve the problem. when i was running for office, i was committed to not raising taxes. i was going to balance the budget and make sure that we were not going to raise taxes so that we could really continue to be competitive in bringing businesses to new mexico. grow our economy so that that deficit will never come back again. greta: well, a fast way to get money is to cut spending or eliminate waste and grow the economy. growing the economy takes a bit of time. i take it that it was expense cutting because you went to you balanced your budget. i did. i presented a budget and the governor is expected to present a budget, and in that budget, my budget actually increa