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Friday, October 30, 2009
Senator Cited for Driving 118 Mph
FOR THE RECORD: This story incorrectly reported who issued a citation to Sen. Rod Adair, R-Roswell, for speeding on Aug. 19. The citation was issued by a Guadalupe County sheriff's deputy, not a Santa Rosa police officer.By Dan Boyd
Journal Capitol Bureau
Just call him Rod the Rocket.
State Sen. Rod Adair was cited for driving 118 miles per hour on an eastern New Mexico highway earlier this year — 53 mph above the 65 mph posted speed limit.
Adair, a Roswell Republican, entered a no-contest plea Oct. 12 after being cited Aug. 19 by a Santa Rosa police officer, according to court records.
"Sometimes I get speeding tickets," Adair said Thursday. "I got my ticket and I paid my fine."
Santa Rosa Magistrate Judge James Moncayo ordered him to pay $281 in fines and gave him a 90-day deferred sentence.
Adair said Thursday that he was miles away from any dwellings — between Interstate 40 and Anton Chico — when nabbed for speeding and subsequently entered a common type of plea agreement.
"I did what many thousands of New Mexicans do," Adair said.
When asked why he was going so fast, he said he did not want to go into details.
Adair, a four-term senator who represents parts of Lincoln and Chaves counties, has faced a handful of speeding charges since 1999.
Most recently, he was arrested in June 2006 in Roswell on a bench warrant for failing to pay a speeding ticket. He had been cited by State Police in April of that year for driving 85 mph in a 55-mph zone.
Adair also pleaded no contest in 2004 for a speeding citation in Reserve, where he was nabbed for driving more than 35 mph above the speed limit.
Three previous speeding citations — two in 1999 and one in 2002 — were dismissed.
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