Homans Disputes Gov. Martinez’s Claims He Was Uncooperative
Former New Mexico Spaceport Authority Executive Director Rick Homans has fired back at Gov. Susana Martinez’s claim that he was uncooperative with her transition team:
In your Sunday story, Governor Martinez declares that the Board of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority and me, its Executive Director, withheld information from her and the transition team.
This allegation is wholly untruthful.
In fact, I responded completely and timely to all requests for information and even sought out members of the new Administration to provide briefings and documents.I was thanked for my responsiveness by Mr. Sherman McCorkle, Chairman of the Spaceport Transition Team, Mr. Jon Barela, Secretary-designate of the Department of Economic Development (EDD), and Rick May, Secretary-designate of the Department of Finance and Administration (DFA).
Rather than accuse me of improper activity as an excuse for her wholesale firing of the leadership of the NMSA, I would prefer it if Governor Martinez were honest and just said she wanted a change at the NMSA. Period.
You can read Homan’s full response in the comments section here.
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Ugh… my god, why so much drama in a project that was so low-key before!!
If the new Gov. keeps on the way she’s acting Branson might walk away from this thing and she’s going to be left with a very expensive airport lounge out in the middle of no where.
I agree, Jim. Businessman like Branson are gonna get real tired of antics like the new governor’s when he had such a good working relationship before.
Unfortunately if you take 200 million you suddenly owe all your money and success plus interest to “taxpayers.”
The private industry needs to minimize its coupling on government as much as possible.
That’s the way this industry is developing, for better or worse. The companies want to develop the vehicles but expect governments to build the infrastructure. Robert Bigelow just told the Florida folks that this week. Virgin Galactic got NM to build it an entire spaceport. Space Adventures would be happy to fly out of Wallops Island — if Virginia provides the necessary upgrades.
Unless billionaires are willing to fork over hundreds of millions of dollars to build infrastructure (and most of them won’t), they are dependent upon government entities. And turmoil like we’re seeing in New Mexico will occur from time to time.