Nation’s only Latina governor denounces ‘racist’ charge

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The nation’s only Latina governor is denouncing a charge by a white former mayor of Santa Fe that she is a racist.
A spokesman for New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez says comments made by former Santa Fe Mayor David Coss at an immigrant rights rally Monday were “are sad and ignorant.”
Coss told a crowd of immigrant advocates outside the New Mexico Statehouse that New Mexico voters in November showed it was a state “that rejected the racism of Dona