A candidate for Albuquerque City Council alleged that her opponent’s campaign manager, a longtime political consultant in New Mexico, tried to pay her to drop out of the race, according to documents submitted to the city’s Ethics Board.

“I think the idea of ‘politics as usual’ has been an excused behavior for this type of thing,” District 1 candidate Stephanie Telles said Wednesday. “It has become so normalized that it’s not even seen as unethical. It’s just become far too easy for people to sacrifice ethics when power is on the line.”

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