Albuquerque – As the members of her administration continue to flaunt the fact they are on junket to Scotland, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham needs to disclose the total price tag and how many state employees are on the trip. While she has admitted the trip is being paid for by a nonprofit organization, she has only said "several" cabinet members are attending. While at home, New Mexicans are paying ever increasing gas and electricity prices while the state's unemployment rate is among the worst in the nation.

"I'm sure New Mexicans, who are paying huge prices for gasoline, are happy to know there's a whole team of bureaucrats on a junket to Scotland. Apparently, video conferencing wasn't an option for the Governor's team because there was an opportunity for a fossil-fueled trip to Scotland where they can lecture us on the use of fossil fuels," said Larry Behrens, Communications Director for Power The Future. "The Governor's team should disclose the price tag and how many state employees are on the week-long escape, but they haven't because they seem to feel New Mexicans don't deserve to know."

The Governor's team junket to Scotland is at least the second trip she has taken to Europe since becoming Governor. In October 2019, she made an unpublicized trip to Spain never disclosing how the trip was financed. Power The Future will continue to file public records requests for the cost and other information about the Scotland junket.