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Well, well, well. I guess it's true: If you live long enough you've seen it all.

Did you see it too in Tuesday's Journal? At a news conference Monday about the state's fentanyl crisis, New Mexico House Speaker Javier Mart铆nez said he's not concerned with assigning political blame.

Wait, what? Has the heat gotten to the speaker? Has his TDS cleared up?

What's up with the ringleader of the Jelly Dog Democrats 鈥� so named by yours truly two years ago because progressive lawmakers like eating jelly-filled doughnuts at day-long committee meetings while making excuses why they can't do anything about crime or drugs. They're a long way away from Blue Dog Democrats and just a bite away from Democratic socialists.

What's going on? The governor also said she didn't want to assign blame for the controversial and likely deadly U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration tactic recently exposed that allegedly allowed suspects under surveillance to freely buy and sell more than 300,000 fentanyl pills in Albuquerque neighborhoods between 2023 and 2025.

Columnist's note: Donald Trump didn't begin his second term as president until January 2025. His first term ended in January 2021. That means Joe Biden was president, Deb Haaland was Interior secretary and U.S. Attorney Alex Uballez were at the wheels of power when a whistleblower says the DEA launched the scheme they call "walking" that鈥檚 intended to net bigger fish.

Why are New Mexico Democrats so magnanimous all the sudden? Are we entering d茅tente ahead of the midterms?

One of their emerging stars was Uballez, "was" being the operative word. On a single day, June 22, his political prospects went down like the Hindenburg when it was exposed that his office oversaw the DEA walking tactic.

Nominated by Biden in January 2022 and confirmed by U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luj谩n and the Senate in May 2022, Uballez ran the U.S. Attorney's Office for nearly three years until he resigned in February 2025.

U.S. attorneys are the chief federal law enforcement officers in their respective districts. Uballez therefore is at the center of the DEA tactic allegedly used in Albuquerque in 2023.

It's going to be a stretch to blame Trump on this one, so Democrats are in a bit of a schism with no Plan B.

Days after the DEA scandal broke, Uballez, who ran for mayor of Albuquerque last year, went on TJ Trout's afternoon show on 近距离内射合集 Radio KKOB on June 26. Uballez attempted to explain himself and perhaps salvage his political reputation as the kind-hearted baby-faced prosecutor.

After saying the obligatory "one pill is too many, one death is too many" in the most somber tones, Uballez said he approved of the DEA operation at the time and that he had no regrets.

鈥淪o, the purpose of organized crime investigations is to really build the case against folk who are profiting off the misery of others, which is not always the guy holding the dope, right,鈥� Uballez explained. 鈥淗e is the lowest person on the totem pole and often is the one expendable to the cartel.鈥�

Sitting in my car in the newspaper鈥檚 parking lot, I could feel Uballez鈥檚 political career crashing over the radio at 50,000 watts like the 1937 Hindenburg disaster in New Jersey.

鈥淵ou only build that by working a long-term case and finding the people responsible, where the drugs are, and then hitting them in a reasonable, safe and effective manner to change, right, the economies on the street,鈥� Uballez said.

But I think it got even worse for Uballlez.

During the interview with Trout, Uballez said federal agents in New Mexico have the capacity to administer 10 to 20 wiretaps at a time. That sounded a lot like confidential information that law enforcement would not want publicly disclosed.

Drug cartels, DWI police conspirators and other criminal organizations could use that kind of intelligence to their advantage, for example, by using hundreds of burner phones to defeat the FBI's capacity and elude federal wiretaps.

Loose lips sink ships, authorities cautioned in World War II.

Uballez is on the hot seat. He'll be known from here to eternity as the U.S. attorney who oversaw the DEA fentanyl scandal. He'll have to do a lot more explaining than he did on Trout's show to avoid becoming the scapegoat of New Mexico Democrats, who have shown time and again they will throw one of their own overboard like chum on a shark-fishing boat.

"I can't sit here as sheriff and not have these hard questions for the former U.S. attorney (Alex Uballez) and the DEA because I have people on the (federal drug) task force who do these investigations," Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen told the Journal recently. "I want to know why this practice was employed and why it took a whistleblower to tell us about it."

Amen to that. One question the DEA needs to answer is what did the fentanyl walking tactic yield? Were bigger fish indeed nabbed? It would behoove them to explain, and the public deserves to know the intended gain and its actual costs.

While not an uncommon law enforcement tactic, the volume of drugs the DEA allowed to be walked through numerous transactions to build larger criminal cases stunned senior local law enforcement officials.

"That's a lot to let go, that's a huge load," one source told me, adding busts of 100,000 or more fentanyl pills are becoming common.

So, New Mexico Democrats are in a schism. The inconvenient truth is Uballez, a fellow Democrat, was U.S. attorney for New Mexico when the DEA tactic was used in Albuquerque.

Mart铆nez doesn't want to play the blame game.

Attorney General Ra煤l Torrez has launched a state investigation of the federal investigators.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham wants "hundreds of millions of dollars" in restitution from the federal government for the harm caused by the DEA allowing poison to flow into our communities.

"Somebody must pay for the damage to this state," she said at Monday's news conference.

The governor says she's trying to meet with the White House about the DEA scandal. I'll help her get the meeting if I can. In fact, I'll write a letter she can hand-deliver the president thanking him for declaring a national emergency at the southern border in January 2025 and deploying military members and the National Guard to stem the flow of fentanyl into the state, which involves a lot more than 300,000 pills.

In May 2025, former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced federal agents seized 2.7 million opioid pills in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. So, in the big picture, the 300,000 pills the DEA recklessly allowed distributed over two years in Albuquerque was a drop in the bucket.

As we watch what appear to be a series of upcoming theatrical news conferences, remember the magician and his sleight of hand. Think about what New Mexico Democrats have done to exacerbate the state's fentanyl crisis.

Recall that Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller allowed Coronado Park to deteriorate into a fentanyl farmers market, Central Avenue to decay into a fentanyl express, and the city's cops don鈥檛 hassle people smoking fentanyl in public. He has allowed the city to become a magnet for fentanyl users and marketeers.

Remember our all-Democrat congressional delegation has always been opposed to any border wall construction, and refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year, resulting in a 76-day funding lapse for agencies like the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Transportation Security Administration.

Know Allen, a Democrat who by no means is as soft on crime as a jelly doughnut, disbanded his agency's narcotics unit to prevent the risk of deputies from being corrupted. So his deputies instead work with federal task forces.

Recollect Lujan Grisham withdrew National Guard members from the border and checkpoints in her first year as chief executive.

And don't forget Mart铆nez, who conceded last week the International District has 鈥渘ever looked worse鈥� due to rampant drug use, refused to consider any of the governor's crime-related bills during a one-day special session in July 2024. He is as soft on crime as a jelly doughnut. 

Now, they're all feigning outrage at the DEA instead of taking a hard look in the mirror and asking themselves: "What could I have done better?"

We'll never know how many people died from the DEA tactic, but it was probably more than one. Albuquerque has developed an insatiable appetite for fentanyl for both local consumption and distribution. It's eating the city apart. I caution family about it when they visit: Just stay inside the hotel after dark and don't talk to anybody on the street.

Drug overdose deaths nationwide declined 14.4% in the 12 months ending in January, but increased 22.7% in New Mexico in the same period. We're obviously not doing something right. Fentanyl, which is up to 100 times more potent than morphine or heroin in its raw powdered form, became the city's dominant street drug by 2018. Pills go for $1 to $5 each.

Drug overdose deaths in New Mexico have doubled in less than a decade, rising from 493 in 2017 to 989 in the 12 months ending in January. The state recorded a record 1,052 overdose deaths in 2021. No region of the state is immune.

Democrats own our state鈥檚 fentanyl crisis 鈥� lock, stock and barrel 鈥� and that's a fact, Jack. They are the only ones in charge. They own the tragic reality that New Mexico is No. 1 in overdose deaths per capita for the second year in a row just like they own New Mexico being 50th in the nation in education for a decade, the most dangerous state in the union, and one of only five states with a declining population.

Good luck with all that. Why change horses midstream, right? I'll be here offering polite guidance from the peanut gallery.

But please, spare me the made-for-TV political theatrics and let us remember the proverb, remove the log in your own eye before you notice the speck in the eye of your neighbor.

Just save me and the speaker a couple jelly-filled doughnuts and we'll all pretend everything is going swimmingly.

Jeff Tucker is a Journal columnist, former Opinion editor and a member of the Journal鈥檚 Editorial Board. He can be reached a jtucker@abqjournal.com.