Governor weighs special session in wooing Tesla
By James Monteleone / Journal Staff Writer UPDATED: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 6:32 am PUBLISHED: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 12:05 am
Customers look at a Tesla in a Cincinnati showroom. New Mexico is one of four state that are finalists for a Tesla battery factory. (Al Behrman/The Associated Press)
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Gov. Susana Martinez said her office is evaluating whether a special legislative session is necessary to complete the package of economic incentives being crafted to make New Mexico more appealing to Tesla Motors.
“There are discussions whether or not it needs to be,” Martinez said Monday after she addressed an Albuquerque meeting of NAIOP, the area’s commercial real estate development association. “If it’s necessary, we are open to whatever we can do that would even include that sort of thing. I’ve had legislators say, ‘If it’s necessary, we’ll come.’ ”
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