Mayor must be ignorant of his American History -— “The Lincoln County War” was over water rights. He better re-read the end result.
Well not exactly, it was over a meat supply contract to the US govt....:^)
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NM-LincolnCountyWar.html
..and boiled down to a war between an Irish and an English store owner... nothing new under the sun...:^)
Was just in Lincoln, NM last summer...:^)