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You voted for him, you’re stuck with him.

That was the message Luna Community College attorney Tony Ortiz gave to members of the board of trustees pushing to remove Chairman Abelino Montoya from his board leadership post, and that legal advice sparked more bickering between Montoya and board members Ernie Chavez and Dan Romero.

But this time the bickering played out in front of the state’s higher education cabinet secretary and representatives of the New Mexico Public Schools Insurance Authority, Luna’s insurer.

City Clerk Casandra Fresquez  informed the governing body on Monday that she has reinstated 147 signatures on the petition to recall Mayor Alfonso Ortiz, but even with those additional signatures, there weren’t enough valid signatures to force a recall election.

The Associated Press

Murder victim has ties to Vegas
ALBUQUERQUE — Authorities say one of two men found fatally shot at an Albuquerque home apparently shot himself after calling 911 to say he’d just shot the other man.
Responding officers found both men dead, each with a gunshot wound to the head.
Police say Henry Aragon, 58,  called 911 late Monday. He said he’d shot 38-year-old Antonio Trujillo, who also lived at the home. Aragon was heard yelling at Trujillo not to die.

In 1963

Tuesday, July 23 — A reception honoring the Rev. Fr. Eugene Guerin was held Sunday at the Our Lady of Sorrows rectory, with more than 1,000 attending. The young priest, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Guerin, Montezuma Road, was born and reared in Las Vegas. He recently returned from five years of study in Rome, where he was ordained by the late Pope John last Dec. 19.