Ryan v. Gonzales

OPINION

RANSOM, Chief Justice.

Representatives Murray Ryan and Ben Lujan, of the New Mexico Legislature, petitioned this Court for a writ of mandamus ordering the Secretary of State to submit multiple questions rather than a single question under the 1992 Capital Projects General Obligation Bond Act that will go before the voters in November of 1992. At issue was whether the debt authorized by the 1992 Bond Act was for multiple works or objects, or for “some specified work or object” as required by Article IX, Section 8 of the New Mexico Constitution. We ruled from the bench at oral argument…