He withdrew last year from a bid to become House majority leader, but State Rep. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, got to be speaker for awhile today. Speaker of the House Ben Lujan picked Cervantes to run the floor session while he presented a bill and walked around the House floor to chat with members.
While Cervantes was in charge, one of the members asked to make a motion at a point when doing so wasn’t the norm. Cervantes paused for a moment before telling the member to state his motion.
The member chuckled.
“I just wanted to make you sweat,” he said.