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Credit Where It�s Not Due Dear Alibi , Governor Susana Martinez’s office recently put out a press release touting local film and television production’s steep revenue increase to almost $290M in fiscal year 2015. Local production generated $118.7M in 2011 but crashed to less than $83M last year. But NM film office director Nick Maniatis’s release was grossly disingenuous by glossing over the fact that the governor herself was responsible for the revenue downturn. After hobbling the industry by rolling back its gains under former Governor Richardson, then slowly tweaking that rollback, Martinez has gall taking credit for the “upturn.” There wouldn’t have been a stall-out in the first place had Martinez not played politics and nearly killed the once-thriving and community-building industry. In the early 2000s, New Mexico was at the vanguard of states enacting a film/TV tax incentive program. In the program, a production entity reported qualifying expenditures and received a 25% “refundable tax credit” after production completed. Under Martinez’s predecessor, Gov. Richardson, the Land of Enchantment’s movie and TV production slate exploded right up until Martinez took office. The success of movies from No Country for Old Men to The Avengers and amazing TV like “Breaking Bad” proved to the entertainment world that New Mexico was a production force to be reckoned with. The otherwise lethargic state economy was bolstered tremendously and a community-based sense of pride grew accordingly. All that changed when Martinez took office. In 2011, she called the rebate program “a giveaway the state can no longer afford” and dismissed it as a “subsidy to Hollywood” while waging no such trash- talk against similar oil/gas or potash tax programs. Martinez capped the program at $50M per annum in rebates, meaning one or two big productions might reap the benefits of the scaled-back program, but others would be left bereft. In March 2013, something changed and Martinez flipped the script, perhaps seeing the disastrous economic effects of her decision the prior two years. She shocked Santa Fe politicos and industry professionals alike by about-facing on her threat to veto the “Breaking Bad” law which specifically incentivized TV production in the wake of that show’s historical success, offering a 30% break under certain circumstances. She subsequently allowed for a $10M “rollover” to the $50M annual cap. Some industry professionals still groaned that, even in 2009 the state was rebating well over $80M annually. Almost $36M was lost during Martinez’s early tenure, with morale amongst production folk similarly waning. The tight-knit community here watched states like Georgia, Louisiana and South Carolina explode in production revenue, using models largely based on New Mexico’s original one. The Avengers even decided not to return for their sequel. Come August of last year, Variety , a leading film industry daily trade mag, did a kitten gloves interview with Martinez, failing to connect the dots to her complicity in the downturn and Maniatis’s most recent press continues that hagiographic tendency. Whether or not she has truly seen the light, Gov. Martinez lost our already-struggling state a lot of money, money that might’ve been a thicker cushion to fall on amidst the global recession. Since 2010, 17,000 production jobs were created here; how many more might have been generated without the rollbacks? Over $500M was generated by the industry for the state economy from 2010 to 2014; and a state struggling as much as New Mexico can’t afford any less due to political guile. a Sean Cardinalli NOVEMBER 12-18 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] listing ran recently in the Wrexham Leader . Employment would take place at the Tesco ODDS Extra store in Wrexham for the four weeks leading up to Christmas. According to the ad, D prospective untanglers are expected to have “A passion for Christmas” and “The ability to N ENDS untangle 3 metres of Christmas lights in under A 3 minutes. The untangler will man a WEIRD NEWS Christmas light untangling stand and will also check customers’ light bulbs for “signs of breakage.” A Tesco spokesperson told The Dateline: Indonesia Mirror newspaper, “The successful applicant The Aviation Herald is reporting a Singapore will work full time in the lead up to Christmas, Airlines flight from Adelaide, Australia, to showing that ‘Every Little Helps,’ lending Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, had to make an their nimble fingers to customers while they emergency landing because of 2,186 farting shop.” The company estimates a typical day sheep. The aircraft landed Oct. 26 at Ngurah will involve untangling up to 60 sets of lights. Rai International Airport on the island of Bali No word on how much the salary will be. after the cockpit noticed a smoke warning coming from the cargo hold. Investigators found no fire on the plane and eventually Dateline: Israel determined that “the smoke indication was the An Israeli Cabinet minister has garnered result of exhaust gases and manure produced criticism and mockery for suggesting his by the sheep.” The plane continued on to country ship thousands of stray cats to another Malaysia after spending two and a half hours country. The Yediot daily published what it said on the ground. Soon after the report hit was a letter from Israel’s Agriculture Minister worldwide media, Singapore Airlines denying Uri Ariel. The minister cited Jewish laws the gassy grounding, saying it had no evidence against animal cruelty as a reason not to spay the incident took place. “That is an or neuter stray animals. He also quoted a assumption being made by media, which we biblical commandment to populate the Earth. are unable to confirm,” a spokesperson told the His solution to pet overpopulation then is to Singaporean newspaper Today . In a statement simply deport all the cast of one gender to to London’s Daily Mail, the airline also said another country. Ariel is a member of the the animals in question were goats and not orthodox religious Jewish Home party. Israeli sheep. Simon Hradecky, the founder of the animal rights activists condemned his ideas, Aviation Herald , is standing by his outlet’s and opposition leader Tzip Livni posted a report.